Day 1 of the $1500 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event 24 has come to a close. The tournament started off with 1,731 players, and only 198 remain. All 198 are in the money and they are eyeing a top prize of $432,411. They will still need to complete a task of 10 levels tomorrow to get to the final day.
The chip leader after the first 11 hours is Ashton Holmes, who bagged 126,300 in chips at the end of the day. He will hope to continue his success tomorrow with other players with high chip counts like Paul Wasicka (126,100), Mohsin Charania (122,800), and Huy Nguyen (116,100). Other notables to make it to day 2 are Daniel Strelitz (97,400), Victor Ramdin (74,900), Rob Salaburu, (41,800), and AP Phahurat (26,100).
Casualties fell like always today and many big names went home empty-handed. Antonio Esfandiari, Melanie Weisner, Kevin Saul, Faraz Jaka, Carlos Mortensen and Mario Ho all went home, as well as many other well-known names.
The final 198 come back tomorrow at 1:00 PM PST to attempt to play down to a final table. Make sure to check for PokerNews updates to see who will come out on top in this $1500 No-Limit Hold’em Event. Action will already be in the money, and everyone will get paid. Find Out tomorrow! For now, we'll leave you with Lynn Gilmartin who has all the highlights from around the Rio.
The PokerNews crew is back to talk about all of the happenings at the World Series of Poker, the news of Mark Scheinberg's settlement with the DOJ, the premier of Bet Raise Fold, and Matthew Parvis tells a story of a charity poker tournament he played with Irv Gotti and Ja Rule of Murder Inc.
After winning his second career bracelet just a few days ago in Event #17 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, Athanasios Polychronopoulos is going for a back-to-back, third career bracelet today.
Polychronopoulos has proven to be a moving force in the $1,500 buy-in events, winning both of his bracelets in these grueling, 2,000-plus entrant fields. First it was in 2011, where he beat a field of 2,713 for first place, and just a few days ago he beat out 2,105 competitors for his second gold bracelet. Polychronopoulos showed up early today and is looking to build a quick stack as action gets underway in the Brasilia room.
Welcome back for another day of the 44th annual World Series of Poker. Here in 2013, there are nine single-entry $1,500 no-limit hold'em events, and another one will be kicking off today. This event is the third of its kind of the summer, with the first two drawing 1,819 players and 2,105 players, respectively. Another field around the 2,000-player mark is expected for to gather today.
In the last $1,500 no-limit hold'em event, Athanasios Polychronopoulos earned his second WSOP gold bracelet to become part of the elite club of multiple bracelet winners. We much expect Polychronopoulos to be back in the mix today gunning for a third, along with handfuls of other notable faces.
PokerNews will have you covered all day long, but right now let's kick it over to our very own Lynn Gilmartin for a more in-depth look at everything that's happening around the Rio.
Play in Event #24 is scheduled to kick off at 12 p.m. local time in Las Vegas, so let's get ready to rock and roll!
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