Day 1A of the Millionaire Maker is Complete
Day 1A of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MILLIONAIRE MAKER is a wrap. The tournament drew 3,438 entires, significantly more then last year's 3,088. The day ended with 509 players who'll return for Day 2.
Boris Kolev (290,700) is the chip leader, however, he has a few other big stacks behind him, including Barry Hutter (259,900), Scott Skirba (207,500), Michael Falson (191,700), Darwin Giles (185,000), Kevin Saul (146,200), and Jonas Wexler (150,000).
Main Event winner Joe Cada finished the day with 66,700 chips, and Elky, the recent runner-up in the $111,000 High Roller for One Drop, finished with 60,200. Garrett Greer who finished as the runner-up in the 2016 Millionaire Maker, finished Day 1A with 54,000.
Many familiar faces entered but did not survive the day. Carlos Mortenson, Liv Boeree, Melanie Weisner, Greg Raymer, Andy Frankenberger, Eddy Sabat, Olivier Busquet, Jeff Madsen, Chris Ferguson, Ari Engel, and Sam Abernathy were some of the well-known players eliminated; they'll have the opportunity to play Day 1B tomorrow at 10 a.m.
All players who advance from both starting fields will combine and play Day 2 on Monday, June 12 at 11 a.m.
To find out who will walk away with the $1,000,000 first-place prize and a WSOP gold bracelet, keep your browser open to PokerNews.
, and Timoshenko led for 5,000. Myung immediately moved all in for 27,000 total, sending Timoshenko into the tank. The two players bantered back and forth a couple of times before Timoshenko pulled out his wallet. About 30 seconds later, he folded and tried to get Myung to show what he had for the right price. He offered $10 then $15 and had more, but Myung refused and wouldn't be bought. He asked, "How much is second place?" insinuating that was his price.
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, and Sluzinski out-kicked Leah to win the pot and chip up nicely.
versus an all-in opponent who held 
. Moorman just eclipsed the 40,000-chip mark and is poised to make a run.
and Boeree check-called a bet of 2,200.
and Boeree checked to her opponent who grabbed a handful of chips and bet enough to put Boeree all in. Boeree snap-called and tabled 
. Her opponent showed 
and was hoping for a miracle on the river which didn't come when the 
was placed on the board.
