Pratyush Buddiga has tripled his stack in just over half an hour. He told us he got one double up with versus and then got more on another hand, “Nothing too exciting.”
Another new entrant David Williams is on his table too.
A total of 1,688 entries generated a prize pool of $1,519,200 and the top 171 spots will get at least $2,005, the winner takes home $288,744 and the golden bracelet.
Steve Zolotow is another late entry, but he is fairing rather better than some of the others, and has got his stack up to 7,500.
He is sat to the left of Antonio Esfandiari and they just played a blind on blind hand. The flop came and a check from Esfandiari saw Zolotov bet and take it down.
Zolotow is now acting as the “Brain” in another game of “Lodden thinks.” and we just witnessed another player hand over yet more dollars to the Magician as he came out top yet again.
The board was already complete when Ilkin Amirov put a short stack all in for his last 7,000. The opponent tank called with and Amirov scored the knockout with for a turned full house. He is now among the bigger stacks in the field. Below we also have some further updated chip counts.
Apparently 56 players bought in for 10 big blinds. Among the more fortunate was Martin Finger, who doubled up straight away with versus the of Kory Kilpatrick on a board.
An additional 56 players decided to put up $1,000 for 10 big blinds just before the close of entry.
Phil Ivey was one of those players. He came in the back way, played one hand, and bust out.
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and McDonald’s short time at the table was over.
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