Leng Leads Into Day 3, Looks For Fourth Bracelet
Day 3 of Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'emi s coming back with 162 players at an average stack of 1,086,000 and with blinds coming back at 15,000-30,000 meaning an average stack of 36 big blinds. The remaining 163 players are going to be battling it out for the $610,347 to first place.
The chip leader going into day 3 is three-time bracelet winner Ryan Leng who just four days earlier had won his third WSOP bracelet in Event #23:$1,500 Eight Game Mix Six-Handed and will be looking to add to his 2021 WSOP resume. Leng started the day top ten in chips, and played the big stack all day, never looking back and ultimately bagging the only stack over 4 million at 4,070,000.
Other big stacks were nipping at his heels by the end of the day, including American proJason Wheeler who, courtesy of a late stage surge in the day, ended the day bagging 3,805,000 and Rafael Marcondes Reis who started the day as one of the big stacks and remained big the whole day, bagging 3,125,000.
Quite a few big names found their way to a bag such as; Chris Brewer(2,280,000) Day 1a chip leader James Romero(2,200,000), bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva(2,130,000), Bart Lybaert(2,070,000), JJ Liu(1,245,000) andJason Somerville(730,000). PokerNews reporter Dannah Kamp also bagged 1,265,000 for day 3.
Action kicks off at 10 am at The Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel with 10 60-minute levels scheduled to be played, with 20-minute breaks after ever two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after level 29.
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