Craig Varnell Tops Day 1 of the $3K Six-Pack

The first 10 levels of Event #27: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed are complete and just 202 remain. A field of 959 poker enthusiasts gathered today, filtering into six-packs and filling tables across the Amazon room.

American pro Craig Varnell leads the pack with a healthy stack of 202,600. Varnell used a hand where he flopped a set and turned a full house against an opponent's top pair on the flop and an open-ended straight draw. Varnell stayed atop the counts the rest of the way and will carry the lead into Thursday’s Day 2.

Joining Varnell at the top is Jeff Coddington, missing out on the chip lead by just two antes, bagging a stack of 202,400. Andy Spears (193,200), Jerry Payne (185,700), and John Bergman (185,500) round out the top five.

Among the notables surviving play were Mike Sowers (152,600), Steve Sung (139,800), Jeremy Ausmus (132,500), Vanessa Selbst (124,9000, Igor Kurganov (112,000), David Pham (61,900), Gaelle Baumann (61,900), and Mike Watson (59,200).

Only the top 144 spots will receive a slice of the $2,589,300 prize pool with a min-cash being worth $4,509. Of course, everyone’s sights and focus will be on the top prize though, which carries a reward of $498,682 and the coveted and prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.

A few players no longer in contention after busting on Day 1 include Doug Polk, Eddy Sabat, Fabrice Soulier, Justin Bonomo, Cate Hall, Martin Jacobson, Greg Merson, Olivier Busquet, Jonathan Duhamel, David Peters, and Griffin Benger.

The remaining players will return Thursday afternoon at 12 p.m. inside the Miranda room to battle for another ten one-hour levels.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Miranda	600	1	Linyang Song	Canada	87,700	73
Miranda	600	2	Martin Mathis	United States	12,800	11
Miranda	600	4	Benjamin Grise	United States	64,200	54
Miranda	600	5	Lucas Blanco	United Kingdom	40,900	34
Miranda	600	6	Mark Radoja	Canada	31,000	26

Miranda	601	1	Jonathan Jaffe	United States	130,700	109
Miranda	601	2	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	83,700	70
Miranda	601	3	Joshua Gibson	United States	190,900	159
Miranda	601	4	Diego Ventura	Peru	55,500	46
Miranda	601	5	Corey Zedo	United States	32,800	27
Miranda	601	6	Parmesh Raj	Canada	136,800	114

Miranda	602	1	Jesse Vilchez	United States	30,400	25
Miranda	602	3	Levan Karamanishvili	Georgia	84,500	70
Miranda	602	4	Onur Unsal	United States	91,000	76
Miranda	602	5	Daniel Strelitz	United States	126,300	105
Miranda	602	6	Bradley Gordon	United States	93,800	78

Miranda	603	1	Mikhail Rudoy	Russia	117,400	98
Miranda	603	3	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	70,200	59
Miranda	603	4	Andrew Donen	United States	107,900	90
Miranda	603	5	Yang Wang	United States	99,000	83
Miranda	603	6	Pratyush Buddiga	United States	52,800	44

Miranda	604	1	Jimmy Guerrero	France	74,000	62
Miranda	604	2	Javier Gomez	United States	58,100	48
Miranda	604	3	Aleks Dimitrov	Bulgaria	95,800	80
Miranda	604	5	Sergio Cabrera	Spain	39,500	33
Miranda	604	6	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	131,400	110

Miranda	605	1	Ivan Zhechev	Bulgaria	63,100	53
Miranda	605	2	Jamey Kramer	United States	82,200	69
Miranda	605	3	Josh Bergman	United States	185,500	155
Miranda	605	4	Dylan Thomassie	United States	58,200	49
Miranda	605	5	Justas Vaiciulionis	Lithuania	102,600	86
Miranda	605	6	Julien Martini	United States	180,600	151

Miranda	606	1	Mike Sowers	United States	152,600	127
Miranda	606	2	Benjamin Zamani	United States	15,400	13
Miranda	606	3	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	82,000	68
Miranda	606	4	Marcos Antunes	Brazil	170,300	142
Miranda	606	5	Bernardo Dias	Brazil	91,500	76
Miranda	606	6	Kurt Lichtman	United States	34,200	29

Miranda	609	1	Kevin Andriamahefa	United States	102,500	85
Miranda	609	2	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	35,600	30
Miranda	609	3	Kyle Cartwright	United States	69,800	58
Miranda	609	4	Igor Kurganov	Russia	112,000	93
Miranda	609	5	Sadan Turker	United Kingdom	59,000	49
Miranda	609	6	Joe Kuether	United States	52,300	44

Miranda	610	1	Jonathan [Removed:250]	United States	41,200	34
Miranda	610	2	Fabio Sousa	Brazil	84,800	71
Miranda	610	3	Kazuma Tanaka	Japan	49,500	41
Miranda	610	4	Andrey Shatilov	Russia	38,600	32
Miranda	610	5	Clayton Kalisek	United States	39,800	33
Miranda	610	6	Mark Darner	United States	44,500	37

Miranda	611	1	Max Silver	United Kingdom	75,100	63
Miranda	611	3	Marvin Rettenmaier	Germany	32,100	27
Miranda	611	4	Daniel Barrio Canal	United Kingdom	33,100	28
Miranda	611	5	Simeon Naydenov	Bulgaria	76,000	63
Miranda	611	6	Shawn Daniels	United States	110,900	92

Miranda	612	1	Louis Linard	France	25,600	21
Miranda	612	2	Richard Tuhrim	United States	124,000	103
Miranda	612	3	Ajay Gnanasambanthan	United States	60,000	50
Miranda	612	5	Jiri Horak	Czech Republic	74,200	62
Miranda	612	6	Ryan Drossel	United States	31,200	26

Miranda	613	1	Kurt Fitzgerald	United States	48,100	40
Miranda	613	2	Rafael Caiaffa	United States	74,000	62
Miranda	613	3	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	62,600	52
Miranda	613	4	Anju Abrol	India	30,500	25
Miranda	613	5	Jeff Papola	United States	138,800	116

Miranda	614	1	David Pham	United States	61,900	52
Miranda	614	2	Seth Davies	United States	88,400	74
Miranda	614	3	Craig Varnell	United States	202,600	169
Miranda	614	4	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	71,100	59
Miranda	614	5	Jeffrey Smith	United States	27,100	23
Miranda	614	6	David Chen	United States	24,800	21

Miranda	615	1	Brian Yoon	United States	46,900	39
Miranda	615	2	Raghav Bansal	India	106,700	89
Miranda	615	3	Jose Montes	United States	119,000	99
Miranda	615	4	Ronnie Pease	United States	30,500	25
Miranda	615	5	Kevin Schulz	United States	47,300	39
Miranda	615	6	Daniel Glass	United States	19,200	16

Miranda	618	1	Peter Nigh	United States	109,400	91
Miranda	618	2	Joey Weissman	United States	70,700	59
Miranda	618	3	Diego Dubcovsky	Argentina	121,300	101
Miranda	618	4	Ephraim Zephaniah	United States	25,000	21
Miranda	618	5	Donis Agnelli	Italy	7,300	6
Miranda	618	6	Thomas Zanot	United States	74,700	62

Miranda	619	1	Mark Johnson	United States	36,900	31
Miranda	619	2	Jake Schindler	United States	27,900	23
Miranda	619	3	Jason Funke	United States	156,300	130
Miranda	619	4	Jacob Daniels	United States	35,200	29
Miranda	619	5	Amit Makhija	United States	79,800	67
Miranda	619	6	Ryan Jones	United States	174,200	145

Miranda	620	1	Mitch Garshofsky	United States	56,700	47
Miranda	620	2	Britton Purvis	United States	47,800	40
Miranda	620	3	Mitchell Lee	United States	19,000	16
Miranda	620	4	Larry Jafee	United States	58,100	48
Miranda	620	5	Tobias Hariefeld	Germany	38,500	32
Miranda	620	6	Garrett Greer	United States	58,200	49

Miranda	621	1	Robin Ylitalo	Sweden	78,600	66
Miranda	621	2	Victor Choupeaux	France	25,000	21
Miranda	621	3	Andy Spears	United States	193,200	161
Miranda	621	4	Yue Du	China	24,300	20
Miranda	621	5	Aditya Sushant	India	55,300	46
Miranda	621	6	Erwann Pecheux	France	82,600	69

Miranda	622	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	75,700	63
Miranda	622	2	Joshua Ladines	United States	116,200	97
Miranda	622	3	Igor Zektser	United States	148,600	124
Miranda	622	4	John Andress	United States	88,800	74
Miranda	622	5	Chris Ferguson	United States	48,600	41
Miranda	622	6	Isaac Baron	United States	43,100	36

Miranda	623	1	Scott Margereson	United Kingdom	162,300	135
Miranda	623	2	James Chen	Taiwan	87,800	73
Miranda	623	3	Kristijonas Andrulis	Lithuania	55,500	46
Miranda	623	4	Antonio Gonzalez Miranda	Spain	48,500	40
Miranda	623	5	Gaelle Baumann	France	61,900	52
Miranda	623	6	Luke Haag	United States	42,700	36

Miranda	624	1	Herb Montalbano	United States	32,200	27
Miranda	624	2	Nikita Leshchinskiy	United States	44,800	37
Miranda	624	3	Tyler Cornell	United States	29,500	25
Miranda	624	4	Jeff Coddington	United States	202,400	169
Miranda	624	5	Michael Ravn	Denmark	70,500	59
Miranda	624	6	David Urban	Slovenia	23,400	20

Miranda	627	1	Michael Gagliano	United States	61,000	51
Miranda	627	2	Tim West	United States	72,400	60
Miranda	627	3	Dan Sindelar	United States	30,800	26
Miranda	627	4	Rob Tepper	United States	64,700	54
Miranda	627	5	Ryan Fair	United States	45,500	38
Miranda	627	6	Ben Palmer	United States	96,500	80

Miranda	628	1	Remy Biechel	France	32,200	27
Miranda	628	2	Mike Leah	Canada	23,100	19
Miranda	628	3	Ryan Tosoc	United States	72,900	61
Miranda	628	5	Zachary Donovan	United States	38,900	32
Miranda	628	6	Finn Zwad	Germany	37,200	31

Miranda	629	1	LaDarren Banks	United States	41,800	35
Miranda	629	2	Cole Jackson	United States	62,300	52
Miranda	629	3	Saya Ono	United States	54,800	46
Miranda	629	4	Grayson Ramage	United States	30,800	26
Miranda	629	5	Matthew Haugen	United States	43,200	36
Miranda	629	6	DID NOT REPORT 2	United States	1	-

Miranda	630	1	David Ormsby	Canada	88,900	74
Miranda	630	2	Samantha Cohen	United States	42,000	35
Miranda	630	3	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	34,700	29
Miranda	630	4	Vanessa Selbst	United States	124,900	104
Miranda	630	5	Ruslan Dykshteyn	United States	100,200	84
Miranda	630	6	Annette Obrestad	Norway	36,800	31

Miranda	631	1	Morten Mortensen	Denmark	96,000	80
Miranda	631	2	Thomas Paul	United States	115,000	96
Miranda	631	3	Martin Stausholm	Austria	23,800	20
Miranda	631	4	Michael Osullivan	Ireland	49,700	41
Miranda	631	5	Michael Haag	United States	53,500	45
Miranda	631	6	Scot Masters	United States	68,500	57

Miranda	632	1	Thomas Miller	United States	66,600	56
Miranda	632	2	Elio Fox	United States	54,600	46
Miranda	632	3	Pascal Hartman	Germany	73,300	61
Miranda	632	5	Joao Vieira	Portugal	109,500	91
Miranda	632	6	Steve Sung	United States	139,800	117

Miranda	633	1	Jim Collopy	United States	64,700	54
Miranda	633	2	Athanasios Polychronopoulos	United States	28,600	24
Miranda	633	3	Clayton Jiang	United States	17,800	15
Miranda	633	4	Corey Thompson	United States	32,000	27
Miranda	633	5	Raymond Walton	United States	66,200	55
Miranda	633	6	Nacho Barbero	Argentina	129,900	108

Miranda	636	1	Jonathan Ruiz	United States	111,000	93
Miranda	636	2	Aditya Agarwal	India	43,300	36
Miranda	636	3	Lawrence Greenberg	United States	19,800	17
Miranda	636	4	Raj Vohra	United States	74,300	62
Miranda	636	5	Mark Dube	United States	56,200	47
Miranda	636	6	Vinny Pahuja	United States	142,400	119

Miranda	637	1	Mike Watson	Canada	59,200	49
Miranda	637	2	Mihai Niste	Romania	19,100	16
Miranda	637	3	Kelly Garrett	United States	50,100	42
Miranda	637	4	Tyler Hancock	United States	33,800	28
Miranda	637	5	Steven Gagliano	United States	63,900	53
Miranda	637	6	Markus Gonsalves	United States	81,700	68

Miranda	638	1	Chi Zhang	United Kingdom	88,900	74
Miranda	638	2	Joao Simao	Brazil	53,000	44
Miranda	638	3	Ty Reiman	United States	32,600	27
Miranda	638	4	Dhaval Joshi	United States	25,800	22
Miranda	638	5	Nirath Rean	United States	51,900	43
Miranda	638	6	Andrew Warren	United States	59,500	50

Miranda	639	1	David Sands	United States	112,400	94
Miranda	639	2	Justin Young	United States	84,600	71
Miranda	639	3	Ryan Jaconetti	United States	48,900	41
Miranda	639	4	Jeremy Ausmus	United States	132,500	110
Miranda	639	5	Jerry Payne	United States	185,700	155
Miranda	639	6	Alex Queen	United States	111,400	93

Miranda	640	1	Jake Schwartz	United States	42,200	35
Miranda	640	2	Griffin Abel	United States	1	-
Miranda	640	3	Julien Loire	France	42,300	35
Miranda	640	4	Viet Vo	United States	25,200	21
Miranda	640	5	Shyam Srinivasan	Canada	70,000	58
Miranda	640	6	Richard Syverud	United States	103,700	86

Miranda	641	1	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	53,800	45
Miranda	641	2	Luis Fabio Fonseca Freitas	Brazil	100,300	84
Miranda	641	3	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	142,000	118
Miranda	641	4	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	52,000	43
Miranda	641	5	Tom Middleton	United Kingdom	68,300	57
Miranda	641	6	Daniel Weinman	United States	66,000	55

Miranda	642	1	John Gorsuch	United States	71,400	60
Miranda	642	2	Nick Yunis	Chile	27,600	23
Miranda	642	3	Christopher Chiang	United States	1	-
Miranda	642	4	Ilkin Amirov	Azerbaijan	104,000	87
Miranda	642	5	Scott Palmer	United States	32,300	27
Miranda	642	6	Jordy Colliot	France	49,200	41