Event #81: $1,500 50th Annual Bracelet Winners Only No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2019 World Series of Poker

Player	Chips	Progress
Barry Shulman	50,000
Brandon Wong	50,000
James Collopy	50,000
Max Silver	50,000
Dmitry Yurasov	50,000
Brian Yoon	50,000
Ari Engel	50,000
John Gorsuch	50,000
Will Jaffe	50,000
Scott Seiver	50,000
Ben Yu	50,000
Jack Sinclair	50,000
Chris Dombrowski	50,000
Eric Froehlich	50,000
David "Bakes" Baker	50,000
Bertrand Grospellier	50,000
Max Greenwood	50,000
Tom Cannuli	50,000
Martin Jacobson	50,000
Kevin Eyster	50,000
Andrew Lichtenberger	50,000
Steven Kelly	50,000
Joey Couden	50,000
Barny Boatman	50,000
Harrison Gimbel	50,000

Player

Chips

Progress

Barry Shulman

50,000

Brandon Wong

50,000

James Collopy

50,000

Max Silver

50,000

Dmitry Yurasov

50,000

Brian Yoon

50,000

Ari Engel

50,000

John Gorsuch

50,000

Will Jaffe

50,000

Scott Seiver

50,000

Ben Yu

50,000

Jack Sinclair

50,000

Chris Dombrowski

50,000

Eric Froehlich

50,000

David "Bakes" Baker

50,000

Bertrand Grospellier

50,000

Max Greenwood

50,000

Tom Cannuli

50,000

Martin Jacobson

50,000

Kevin Eyster

50,000

Andrew Lichtenberger

50,000

Steven Kelly

50,000

Joey Couden

50,000

Barny Boatman

50,000

Harrison Gimbel

50,000

On Wednesday, many of poker's elite came together for Day 1 of Event #81: $1,500 50th Annual Bracelet Winners Only No-Limit Hold'em. A total of 143 bracelet winners entered so far, with registration still open until cards are in the air today at 2:00 p.m.

Leading the way with heaps of chips is Nikita Luther, sitting on a stack of 538,500 after putting on a clinic on Day 1. The Indian bracelet winner earned her piece of gold in 2018 after winning the $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Tag Team event with poker pro Giuseppe Pantaleo, who also advanced in this event.

Michael Gagliano sits in second on the board with 354,000 and is followed by Yuval Bronshtein with a stack of 277,000 to round out the top three counts.

Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	Nikita Luther	India	538,500
2	Michael Gagliano	United States	354,000
3	Yuval Bronshtein	Israel	277,000
4	Haixia Zhang	United States	264,500
5	Blair Hinkle	United States	259,000
6	Shankar Pillai	United States	242,000
7	Chris Ferguson	United States	224,500
8	Ben Ponzio	United States	224,000
9	James Mackey	United States	220,000
10	Fred Berger	United States	204,500

Players that choose to hop in before the start of play today will sit down with a stack of 50,000, coming in to Level 11: 1,000/2,500 with a big blind ante of 2,500.

Play will conclude today once 10 levels are in the books, with Day 3 coming back on Friday for another 2 p.m. restart. This is a four-day event, with the final six players coming back on Saturday for Day 4 at 12:00 p.m. to play down to a winner.

Familiar faces still in the hunt to add more gold to their resumes include the likes of Joe Cada (195,000), Kevin Gerhart (165,500), Loni Harwood (153,500), Humberto Brenes (112,000), Liv Boeree (61,500) and Giuseppe Pantaleo (22,000).

Day 2 Structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
11	1,000	2,500	2,500
12	1,500	3,000	3,000
13	2,000	4,000	4,000
14	2,500	5,000	5,000
15	3,000	6,000	6,000
16	4,000	8,000	8,000
17	5,000	10,000	10,000
18	6,000	12,000	12,000
19	8,000	16,000	16,000
20	10,000	20,000	20,000

Cards are in the air by 2:00 p.m. local time, so stay locked in on PokerNews.com for updates throughout the day, and on the way to crowning a winner.

Tags: Giuseppe Pantaleo Humberto Brenes Joe Cada Kevin Gerhart Liv Boeree Loni Harwood Michael Gagliano Nikita Luther Yuval Bronshtein