2019 World Series of Poker

Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info

2019 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a4
Prize
$888,888
Event Info
Buy-in
$888
Prize Pool
$7,720,210
Entries
10,185
Level Info
Level
45
Blinds
2,000,000 / 4,000,000
Ante
4,000,000

Michael Kane Takes the Lead as Day 1b Concludes in Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Michael Kane
Michael Kane

The second flight of the ever popular Crazy Eights tournament has wrapped for the day and Michael Kane will return to Day 2 in fantastic shape, with 1,360,000 chips to play with. He is one of only two players who built a seven-figure stack over the 19 levels of play, with Dara Taherpour (1,030,000) being the other. Kane is also the overall leader at the moment, nipping ahead of Russian Pro Arsenii Karmatckii, who finished Day 1a with 1,323,000.

Richard Bai (535,000), Calvin Anderson (400,000), James Dempsey (301,000), Boris Kolev (200,000) and Robert Cheung (102,000) are some of the notables to secure themselves a seat in Day 2 which returns on Monday 1st July at midday, here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. All in all, there were 138 runners who made it through and they join the 191 from Day 1a, which is a total of 329 through so far.

Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts

PlacePlayerChips
1Michael Kane1,360,000
2Dara Taherpour1,030,000
3Emile Schiff994,000
4William Pengelly921,000
5Jerry Odeen913,000
6Matthew Smith906,000
7Andrew Wilson848,000
8Endale Wordofa820,000
9Blaz Zerjav774,000
10Alex Lee Xiang Wei740,000

There were many well-known names in the crowd today but the majority of them failed to find a bag at the end. With two more starting flights available though, we may not have seen the last of Julien Martini, David Bach, Maria Lampropoulos, Martin Finger, Mikhail Semin, Terry Fleischer or Kiryl Radzivonau to name a few.

It all starts again tomorrow with Day 1c kicking off at 10 a.m. Sunday will see the final starting day taking place, which will also begin at 10 a.m. Don’t forget to join PokerNews then to find out all the latest news and action.

Tags: Arsenii KarmatckiiBoris KolevCalvin AndersonDara TaherpourDavid BachJames DempseyJulien MartiniKiryl RadzivonauMaria LampropoulosMartin FingerMichael KaneRichard BaiRobert CheungTerry Fleischer