Ryan Gibson Far Out Front to Begin Day 2 of $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
Welcome back for Day 2 of Event #28: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha. Just 59 players out of a starting field of 1,069 are still in the hunt for the WSOP gold bracelet and the $166,461 top prize when play resumes at 12 p.m. PST.
Leading the way by a significant margin is Ryan Gibson, who turned his 20,000 starting stack into 1,940,000 over the course of 11 hours of play on Day 1. Gibson leads second-place Alexander Yen by more than 600,000, and has nearly double the stack of third-place Jonathan Therme (1,033,000).
In fifth place to start the day is Michael Perrone with 750,000. Perrone has already won a bracelet in 2021, taking down Event #10: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em 10 days ago. Gabe Ramos was also at that final table and begins Day 2 in ninth chip position with 550,000. Bracelet winners Georgios Sotiropoulos (474,000) and Joseph Cheong (454,000) are also still alive.
Top 10 Stacks
| Chip Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ryan Gibson | United States | 1,940,000 |
| 2 | Alexander Yen | United States | 1,314,000 |
| 3 | Jonathan Therme | France | 1,033,000 |
| 4 | Dylan Weisman | United States | 937,000 |
| 5 | Michael Perrone | United States | 750,000 |
| 6 | Casey Carroll | United States | 680,000 |
| 7 | Craig Chait | United States | 664,000 |
| 8 | Tegnear Butler | United States | 553,000 |
| 9 | Gabe Ramos | United States | 550,000 |
| 10 | Youness Barakat | Italy | 539,000 |
The schedule calls for these 59 players to play down to a final table of five tonight. Levels will increase to 60 minutes starting on Day 2, with blinds beginning at 5,000-10,000, with a 10,000 ante.
PokerNews will be on hand throughout the day providing live updates as the field gets whittled down to five.
on the river, Gibson bet 500,000 from under the gun. Perrone, from middle position, went into the tank, cutting out the chips to call and looking back at his cards multiple times.
for a full house, sixes over fours, to take the pot and move close to 2,500,000.
and Park 
, improving Weisman to a straight and sending Park home in 24th place.
, Darius Studdard moved all in and was called by Tim Vanloo. Studdard was already up from his seat and packing his belongings after Vanloo turned over 
, giving Bhandari the best hand with a flush and sending Tian out in 22nd place.
and Michael Perrone called.
on the river was no help to Perrone.