Corey Wright Is The Chip Leader After Day 1 of Event #25: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deep Stack
Day 1 of Event #25: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deep Stack of the 2019 World Series of Poker is in the books. This new event attracted 2,577 entries but only 215 players will be returning tomorrow for Day 2 to see who will take home the $205,605 first-place prize along with the coveted WSOP bracelet. Leading the way is Corey Wright who bagged a massive 1,726,000 chips at the end of the night. Wright may have bagged the most chips but he will still have to do some work as Rob Valden (1,275,000], Peter Linton (1,130,000), and Alex Feiner (1,003,000) are all over one million in chips.
Accompanying those who surpassed the million chip mark include 2016 WSOP Bracelet Peter Eichhardt (1,100,000), 2013 WSOP Bracelet winner and former November Niner Cliff Josephy (1,009,000). Other notables with healthy stacks who are pushing for WSOP gold include Upeshka De Silva (762,000), Mike Shin (531,000) and JC Tran (460,000). Live reporter and passionate PLO player Simkha Blank is still in the hunt, too, with 282,000 chips.
Event #25: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deep Stack drew in a lot of the games top players and those who fell short of Day 2 but did cash include Daniel Negreanu, Martijin Gerrits, Jonathan Dimmig, Ralph Perry, Jesse Sylvia and Joseph Chung.
Day 2 will begin at 12 p.m. local time and play will resume from level 21 where the small blind will be 8,000 and the big blind will be 16,000. Levels will last 40 minutes with 15-minute breaks after every 3 levels. There will be an hour-long dinner break after the ninth level which will be at approximately 6.30 p.m. local time.
The returning players will play down until there is a newly crowned WSOP champion and you'll be able to follow all the action right here on PokerNews throughout the event.