Daniel Colpoys Leads Final 162 in $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold'em
After two starting days, a bumper field of no less than 5,700 entries was created in Event #34: $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold'em. With more bang for your buck, this new format for the 2018 World Series of Poker has proven to be a success. The 5700 created a smashing prize pool of $5,130,000 together, with a mouth-watering slice of $644,224 awaiting the winner on Wednesday, June 20.
On Day 2, 1,285 players returned with Brian Yoon starting from pole position. While Yoon ended up falling along the way, it’s Daniel Colpoys who's taken up the mantle and ended as overnight chipleader with 1,405,000 in chips. David Kaiura sits in second with 1,237,000, followed closely by Yosuke Sekiya with 1,208,000 in chips, and Steven Tymms in fourth bagging up 1,062,000.
With $224,281 in total live earnings, Colpoys is cashing his fourth WSOP event of the summer and will try to catch his first gold bracelet. The four players are the only ones from the surviving 162 to return with over a million chips. All are already guaranteed at least $4,215 for their efforts but sights are set on the six-figure first place prize and much-coveted bracelet.
The bubble burst level 13, at the beginning of the day, and there was a steady flow of eliminations. Some of the pre-dinner break casualties included many bracelets winners such as Chris Moorman, the aforementioned Yoon, Greg Raymer, Steve Sung, Jeff Madsen, Gaurav Raina, David Bach and Andre Akkari.
After the hour-long break, other notables players were ousted such as David Peters who was down to seven big blinds due to a bad beat, Calvin Anderson, Felipe Ramos, Mohsin Charania and Kathy Liebert, who busted 30-minutes before the end of the day.
Among those who bagged for Day 3 are Isaac Baron (942,000), Mike Del Vecchio (888,000), Andrey Zaichenko(819,000), Tony Dunst (571,000), Richard Dubini (125,000), Alex Rocha (87,000), and Maria Lampropulos who was on a roller coaster all day long and end up this day with 262,000.
Day 3 will resume on Tuesday, June 19, at 12 p.m. local time. The remaining players will play ten more levels with a 15-minute break after every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after level six (~5:30 p.m.).
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will continue to keep you up to date with all the action from the felt as the 2018 World Series of Poker continues.