Who Will Take Down Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em?
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold’em which might be one of the few events which constantly has a huge rail on the sidelines. The tournament prompted 913 teams to sign up and play, 183 of them made it through the hurdles that Day 1 brought them.
Leading the relay is Team Phan with Peter Phan, and Jeffrey Trina coming in with a total of 435,500 chips. They are followed by Team Whalin (Luke Allen - Sam Whalin) who bagged a stack of 376,500.
Team Attebery (Darren "Beanz" Attebery /Genesis Sullivan) also bagged a healthy stack of 286,000. Followed by Team Medesan (Alain Medesan - Mihai Manole) with 280,500 and Team Yunis (NIck Yunis - Reynel Hernandez) with 268,000.
Other teams to watch for include, Team McCabe (Linda McCabe - Christian Soto), Team Luther (Nikita Luther - Dinesh Alt), Team Garcia (Cord Garcia - David "ODB" Baker) and Team Smith (Jerod Smith - Melissa Bryne).
When the players return to the Bally's and Paris Las Vegas, play will resume in the Bally's gold section at 12 p.m. with Level 12 which features a small blind of 1,000, big blind of 2,500, and a big blind ante of 2,500.
Another 11 levels of 60 minutes are scheduled with no downtime scheduled except for color-up breaks. The PokerNews live reporting team will be following along all day to bring you all the latest updates from the action on the floor.