How Did They Get Here?
Just 35 players remain in the second-biggest World Series of Poker Main Event. All of them are 34 eliminations removed from banking $10,000,000 and 26 players away from making the year's biggest final table.
- From the Top 35, five players played Day 1a, ten played Day 1b, and seventeen registered Day 1c.
- The option to enter before Day 2 was newly introduced this year. Three players that made it to the Top 35 did exactly that; Kevin Maahs and Hiroki Nawa signed up before the start of play on Day 2ab, Warwick Mirzikinian did so before Day 2c got underway.
- Garry Gates, Duey Duong, Zhen Cai, Preben Stokkan, and Thomar Pidun survived their respective Day 1's with fewer chips than the 60,000 they started the day with.
- Timothy Su has led the WSOP Main Event at the end of two days, he finished up top after both Day 2ab and Day 5.
- All the players that have led the Main Event at a day's closing, have cashed.
| Day | Chipleader | Country | Chips | Finishing Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Bryan Campanello | United States | 0 | 435th | |
| 1b | Adam Owen | United Kingdom | 0 | 570th | |
| 1c | James Henson | United States | 0 | 780th | |
| 2ab | Timothy Su | United States | 34,350,000 | 3/35 | |
| 2c | Julian Milliard-Feral | United States | 0 | 334th | |
| 3 | Preben Stokkan | Norway | 14,600,000 | 15/35 | |
| 4 | Dean Morrone | Canada | 0 | 159th | |
| 5 | Timothy Su | United States | 34,350,000 | 3/35 | |
| 6 | Nicholas Marchington | United Kingdom | 39,800,000 | 1/35 |
Let's take a look at how they got to Day 7 of the Main Event. The chip stacks mentioned are those registered at the end of the days, as reported by the official WSOP chip count lists.
| Players | (Starting Day) | Start | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Marchington | (1B) | 60,000 | 109,100 | 383,000 | 734,000 | 2,785,000 | 10,835,000 | 39,800,000 |
| Hossein Ensan | (1C) | 60,000 | 180,000 | 209,000 | 336,000 | 3,250,000 | 7,100,000 | 34,500,000 |
| Timothy Su | (1A) | 60,000 | 297,300 | 791,000 | 602,000 | 2,570,000 | 19,235,000 | 34,350,000 |
| Milos Skrbic | (1A) | 60,000 | 72,200 | 368,900 | 624,000 | 2,466,000 | 10,715,000 | 31,450,000 |
| Henry Lu | (1C) | 60,000 | 181,500 | 188,700 | 896000 | 1,428,000 | 1,125,000 | 25,525,000 |
| Garry Gates | (1C) | 60,000 | 57,800 | 283,300 | 348,000 | 1,085,000 | 4,990,000 | 25,025,000 |
| Duey Duong | (1C) | 60,000 | 45,000 | 290,000 | 1,576,000 | 2,600,000 | 1,725,000 | 21,650,000 |
| Warwick Mirzikinian | (2C) | 0 | 60,000 | 312,400 | 1,175,000 | 3,900,000 | 11,430,000 | 20,700,000 |
| Dario Sammartino | (1C) | 60,000 | 121,000 | 522,700 | 552,000 | 2,302,000 | 860,000 | 19,850,000 |
| Kevin Maahs | (2AB) | 0 | 60,000 | 262,100 | 123,000 | 2,596,000 | 7,630,000 | 19,550,000 |
| Michael Niwinski | (1B) | 60,000 | 104,600 | 370,200 | 1,060,000 | 1,269,000 | 4,960,000 | 18,900,000 |
| Zhen Cai | (1C) | 60,000 | 39,500 | 152,400 | 1,058,000 | 3,200,000 | 6,945,000 | 18,275,000 |
| Luke Graham | (1C) | 60,000 | 97,500 | 362,900 | 996,000 | 1,728,000 | 11,280,000 | 16,300,000 |
| Enrico Rudelitz | (1B) | 60,000 | 97,100 | 174,000 | 606,000 | 1,661,000 | 6,180,000 | 15,800,000 |
| Preben Stokkan | (1C) | 60,000 | 44,000 | 93,000 | 2,184,000 | 2,900,000 | 1,100,000 | 14,600,000 |
| Yuri Dzivielevski | (1B) | 60,000 | 221,900 | 290,300 | 1,083,000 | 1,790,000 | 3,530,000 | 13,750,000 |
| [Removed:140] | (1A) | 60,000 | 61,900 | 203,900 | 485,000 | 1,400,000 | 1,800,000 | 13,600,000 |
| Nicholas Danias | (1B) | 60,000 | 90,600 | 409,900 | 85,000 | 2,575,000 | 5,535,000 | 11,550,000 |
| Hiroki Nawa | (2C) | 0 | 60,000 | 240,000 | 522,000 | 643,000 | 7,760,000 | 10,250,000 |
| Zackary Koerper | (1C) | 60,000 | 181,000 | 481,200 | 1,191,000 | 1,006,000 | 8,650,000 | 10,075,000 |
| Daniel Charlton | (1C) | 60,000 | 137,900 | 373,800 | 1,412,000 | 1,918,000 | 4,090,000 | 9,725,000 |
| Mihai Manole | (1C) | 60,000 | 136,300 | 188,000 | 408,000 | 3,781,000 | 5,685,000 | 9,700,000 |
| Marcelo Cudos | (1B) | 60,000 | 144,700 | 175,500 | 282,000 | 477,000 | 5,055,000 | 9,450,000 |
| Austin Lewis | (1A) | 60,000 | 68,300 | 301,800 | 604,000 | 1,105,000 | 3,760,000 | 9,350,000 |
| Mario Navarro | (1C) | 60,000 | 98,400 | 262,000 | 805,000 | 2,000,000 | 3,600,000 | 8,150,000 |
| Oliver Bithell | (1C) | 60,000 | 92,200 | 35,100 | 1,035,000 | 2,926,000 | 5,500,000 | 8,075,000 |
| Robert Heidorn | (1B) | 60,000 | 117,600 | 227,300 | 1,221,000 | 3,700,000 | 8,400,000 | 7,625,000 |
| Christopher Ahrens | (1B) | 60,000 | 175,100 | 195,400 | 616,000 | 595,000 | 1,805,000 | 7,275,000 |
| Corey Burbick | (1C) | 60,000 | 75,400 | 187,100 | 832,000 | 2,820,000 | 2,590,000 | 7,250,000 |
| Johnathan Dempsey | (1B) | 60,000 | 209,000 | 258,700 | 724,000 | 2,081,000 | 1,545,000 | 6,500,000 |
| Paul Dhaliwal | (1C) | 60,000 | 91,700 | 193,900 | 433,000 | 1,394,000 | 3,370,000 | 6,225,000 |
| Christopher Barton | (1C) | 60,000 | 134,500 | 120,200 | 509,000 | 2,700,000 | 3,600,000 | 4,350,000 |
| Thomer Pidun | (1A) | 60,000 | 54,800 | 103,500 | 1,195,000 | 2,349,000 | 5,260,000 | 3,625,000 |
| Alex Livingston | (1B) | 60,000 | 159,000 | 360,600 | 681,000 | 660,000 | 3,935,000 | 2,800,000 |
| Steven Parrott | (1C) | 60,000 | 113,000 | 291,500 | 459,000 | 1,081,000 | 4,505,000 | 1,825,000 |
