Defending Champion Veiga Among Day 2 Contestants Starting at 2 p.m.
It's a new day at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino at the final stretch of the 2019 World Series of Poker. The second day of Event #70: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em is about to kick-off at 2 p.m. local time with 148 survivors out of the 671 players that started the tournament. Defending champion Diogo Veiga is still in the tournament but he bagged 65,000 which puts him in the middle of the pack. Romanian pro Vlad Darie managed to grab the chip lead at the end of last night and he starts the day with 284,000.
The first goal of the day is to play down to the last 101 players to find out who will be taking home some money. The min-cash is worth $4,506 and the winner of the tournament will take home $380,090. You would need a spot at the final four to take home a six figure prize. Veiga won the tournament last year for $522,715 when the tournament had 1,020 entries. This year is a lot smaller with just 671 players registered.
Other notables that bagged for Day 2 and are about to start another day of poker are European high-stakes crusher Andras Nemeth (264,500), Athanasios Polychronopoulos (221,000), Michael Tureniec (209,000), Justin Bonomo (170,500), Marc-André Ladouceur (123,500), and Patrick Leonard (103,300). Plenty of more familiar faces will be found at Day 2 of the tournament.
They will start with blinds at 1,000/2,000 and a big blind ante of 2,000. The plan is to play ten one-hour levels today with a fifteen-minute break after every level. There will be a one-hour dinner break after the sixth level today.
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