Steve Yea Leads the Pack of Millionare Maker Day 2; Still a Star-Studded field
Welcome to WSOP at Ballys snd Paris Las Vegas Event #37 $1,500 Millionare Maker No-Limit Texas Hold'em Day 2. After 3,546 players bought into Day 1a on June 17, an even larger turnout of 4,429 players chose Day 1b to start their quest for a 2022 World Series of Poker bracelet. Only 963 of those players who started this Day 1 with high hopes managed to make it through to Day 2.
Leader of the chip counts is Steve Yea with 148 big blinds (445,000), and right behind him is Christopher Gu with 168 big blinds (420,500)
Dozens of stellar names are still in the running for this gold bracelet event. The lure of a seven-figure top prize was enough to entice such luminaries as JJ Liu, Kenny Hallaert, four-time WSOP bracelet winner Robert Mizrachi, recent bracelet winner Daniel Weinman, and Kathy Liebert to the Millionaire Maker tables.
Event #37: $1,500 Millionaire Maker Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| PLACE | PLAYER | COUNTRY | CHIPS | BIG BLINDS | |
| 1 | Rick Alvarado | United States | 466,500 | 187 | |
| 2 | Steve Yea | South Korea | 444,500 | 178 | |
| 3 | Anatoly Filatov | United States | 429,500 | 172 | |
| 4 | Federico Castaing | Argentina | 427,000 | 171 | |
| 5 | Christopher Gu | United States | 420,500 | 168 | |
| 6 | Perry Johnston | United States | 413,500 | 165 | |
| 7 | Stanislav Angelov | United States | 412,500 | 165 | |
| 8 | Alain Bauer | United Kingdom | 390,500 | 156 | |
| 9 | Nada Siddick | Canada | 390,400 | 156 | |
| 10 | Vu To | United States | 389,000 | 156 |
Day 2 commences at 10:00 a.m. local time sharp on June 19 and sees the survivors from Day 1a and 1b merge to create a field of 1,701. The blinds on Day 2 start at Level 12, meaning players are paying 1,000/2,500 and a 2,500 big blind ante. The plan is to complete another ten levels, with a 60-minute break after Level 17, which is approximately 7:00 p.m. local time.
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