Final 179 Players Head Down the Backstretch of $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Just under half of the original field of 328 entries remains in the final mixed-game event of the 53rd World Series of Poker, with Brazilian star Andre Akkari (262,100) pacing the final 179 players chasing the money on Day 2 of Event #84: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
The final 50 players Friday will receive at least $4,800, with the winner on Saturday taking home $205,139 and a prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.
With the majority of the original field still around, that means plenty of bracelet winners and stars remaining to follow including Joey Coudon, who sits not far behind Akkari in third place to start the day with 178,100 chips. Three-time bracelet winner David Bach (130,300), five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (114,700), 2022 WSOP Player of the Year leader Dan Zack (112,700), and Poker Hall of Famer Todd Brunson (102,400) are just a few big names with a 100,000+ chip stack to start the day.
While still alive, some of those with a hitch in their giddy-up to start their day include multi-time bracelet winners Phillip Hui (30,000), Ben Yu (26,300), Jeff Madsen (19,900), and Jason Mercier (19,900). They’ll need to crack the whip early to boost their short stacks into contention.
Defending champion Jim Collopy is also still in the field with a stack of 46,900, but he’ll have some work to do to get into contention to defend his title.
Day 2 gets underway at 2 p.m. local time in the gold section of the Bally’s Event Center with Level 11 kicking off ten more levels of play that will have 15-minute breaks after every second level and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 16 at approximately 8:30 p.m.
Last year, from a 282-entry field, just 20 remained by the end of Day 2, so it will be exciting to see how far the field gets thinned from its 328 in the starting gates this year.
PokerNews will have all the action, so keep it right here for your updates as the final week of the World Series of Poker continues in its new home at Bally’s and Paris, Las Vegas.
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