Shuffle Up and Deal
Play has now begun on Day 2 of the closer.
Play has now begun on Day 2 of the closer.
Level: 23
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Some last-minute adjustments to the prizepool are currently being made and the floor has announced that cards will be in the air at 5:15.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Ron “The Carolina Express” Stanley, 70, was one of the most feared players in the game. In fact, he even went toe-to-toe with the legendary Stu Ungar at the final table of the 1997 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. It was there that Stanley donned a tuxedo while playing in the intense Las Vegas heat on Fremont Street.
Stanley, who has been playing poker for a living for “at least 50 years,” was recently spotted at the 2022 WSOP and was kind enough to chat with PokerNews.
“My dad used to play poker and he’d take me to the games when I was a kid,” he said about how he learned poker in the first place. “I was watching and it got pretty interesting. He was pretty good at it and I picked it up from him. It’s in my blood I guess.”
While he hasn’t had any major tournament scores since before the Poker Boom, Stanley is still on the grind.
“I play poker 5-6 days a week at least, mostly cash games,” he said. “In Vegas, I mostly play at South Point, but I’ve been in South Carolina for six months playing a lot of home games.”
With Day 1b finishing soon, Day 2 of Event #85: $1,500 The Closer will begin at 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 17.
Day 1a saw a total of 929 entries with 75 players making it through to Day 2. In Day 1b, 2039 took to the felt and before play had stopped, 477 were left in the event.
Prize pool and payouts will be confirmed as Day 2 gets underway. Chip counts and the seat draw will be available before play begins.
Place | Name | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
1 | Ahmed Karrim | South Africa | 1,695,000 | 57 |
2 | Raghav Bansal | India | 1,600,000 | 53 |
3 | Sean Ragozzini | Australia | 1,550,000 | 52 |
4 | Garrett Johnstone | United States | 1,450,000 | 48 |
5 | Tony Nieman | United States | 1,285,000 | 43 |
6 | Kazuhiro Shirasawa | Japan | 1,235,000 | 41 |
7 | Teddy Cablay | United States | 1,200,030 | 40 |
8 | Neil Rauschhuber | United States | 1,100,000 | 37 |
9 | Jessie Bryant | United States | 1,000,020 | 33 |
10 | Ronnie Anderson | United States | 935,000 | 31 |
Event #85: $1,500 The Closer
Day 2 Started