Event #8: $1,500 Badugi Day 1 Field Packed With Bracelet Winners

Day 1 of Event #8: $1,500 Badugi brought 554 players to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. After 15 levels of play, 84 remained.

Of these 84 players, 31 already have at least one WSOP bracelet to their name. These previous bracelet winners include Lok Chan (348,000), who finished with the second biggest stack of the day. He sits behind Brian Tate, the event's current chip leader.

Tate bagged 428,000 in chips, giving him a substantial lead over his opponents. This puts Tate in a good position to take down a share of the $735,435 in the event's prize pool.

End of Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Brian Tate	United States	428,000	86
2	Lok Chan	Hong Kong	348,000	70
3	Satoshi Tanaka	United States	329,000	66
4	Kevin Xu	United States	307,000	61
5	Ryan Hoenig	United States	297,000	59
6	Matthew Wantman	United States	292,000	58
7	Dominick Sarle	United States	285,000	57
8	Frank Muir	United States	277,000	55
9	Alexander Bitsakis	Canada	275,000	55
10	Jampana Appalaraju	United States	255,000	51

Chip counts according to the WSOP LIVE app

Some of the other bracelet winners to survive Day 1 included Ryan Hoenig (297,000), Matthew Wantman (292,000), Chino Rheem (197,000), Ryan Reiss (193,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (169,000), and Nick Schulman (104,000).

There were also two previous Main Event winners Chris Moneymaker (162,000) and Max Neugbauer (140,000).

This bracelet-bedizened field will return for Day 2 of Event #8: $1,500 Badugi on May 30 at 1:00 p.m. local time with Day 2. Action is expected to run for 10 levels. You can follow the day's action live here on PokerNews.