Tamer Kamel Leads as 135 Players Advance from Day 1c Flight
Day 1c of the 2022 Wynn Summer Classic $1,600 Mystery Bounty took place on Friday, July 15, and attracted 2,190 runners, which along with Day 1a's 459 and 1b's 496 brought the field up to 955 runners with the third and final flight still to go.
Of those, just 135 survived the night with Tamer Kamel and his stack of 1,123,000. That is ahead of Day 1b leader Gao Shouyi (1,009,000) and Day 1a chip leader Sean Conklin (897,000).
Johnathen McCullagh (895,000), Roscoe Light (868,000), Nicolas Noguera (825,000), and Lucas Blanco (797,000) round out the top five from the thir flight.
Others to make it through were Luke Blindert (760,000), Ryan Laplante (599,000), Jonas Wexler (528,000), Shannon Shorr (489,000), Darren Rabinowitz (352,000), and Jason Wheeler (311,000).
The survivors from all flights, 239 in total, will return for Day 2 action at Noon local time on Saturday, July 16. That is when the Mystery Bounty envelopes will be in play. PokerNews will be there every step of the way until a winner is crowned, so stay tuned!