Day 2 of Event #58: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Ends with 28 Players
The remaining 28 players of Event #58: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em bagged their chips to return on Sunday to play down to a winner, who will receive $395,918 along with a WSOP gold bracelet.
The day started with 269 players returning just four spots from the payouts, which began at 265th. Zhong Wang was the unfortunate bubble, whose elimination made the remaining 265 players very happy and guaranteeing them at least $2,249 apiece.
Peter Coulombe ended Day 2 as the chip leader with 1,443,000. Two bracelet winners, Taylor Paur (927,000) and Asi Moshe (886,000), also finished the day inside the top three. Lee Watkinson (470,000) and John Phan (520,000) are also WSOP bracelet winners who'll return for Day 3 looking to add to their WSOP gold collection. Martin Kabrhel began the day as the chip leader and ended it 13th in chips with 463,000. Goran "mandza17" Mandic ended the day with 562,000.
Many notables had started the day but didn't finish, including Phil Laak, Kenny Hallaert, and Chance Kornuth.
Day 3 begins at 12 p.m. on Sunday, and PokerNews.com will have all of the live updates and hand-for-hand play from the final table.
Day 3 Seat Draw
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brasilia | 700 | 1 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Republic | 463,000 | 39 |
Brasilia | 700 | 3 | John Esposito | United States | 406,000 | 34 |
Brasilia | 700 | 4 | Timothy Miles | United States | 421,000 | 35 |
Brasilia | 700 | 6 | Danamarie Muse | United States | 171,000 | 14 |
Brasilia | 700 | 7 | James Gilbert | United States | 185,000 | 15 |
Brasilia | 700 | 8 | Youngshin Im | Korea | 210,000 | 18 |
Brasilia | 700 | 9 | Peter Coulombe | United States | 1,443,000 | 120 |
Brasilia | 701 | 1 | Alex Queen | United States | 373,000 | 31 |
Brasilia | 701 | 3 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 691,000 | 58 |
Brasilia | 701 | 4 | Taylor Paur | United States | 927,000 | 77 |
Brasilia | 701 | 5 | Artur Rudziankov | Czech Republic | 184,000 | 15 |
Brasilia | 701 | 6 | Eric Fields | United States | 305,000 | 25 |
Brasilia | 701 | 7 | Arman Zolnoorian | United States | 558,000 | 47 |
Brasilia | 701 | 8 | Lee Watkinson | United States | 470,000 | 39 |
Brasilia | 702 | 2 | Matthew Shafman | United States | 299,000 | 25 |
Brasilia | 702 | 3 | Chris Cornell | United States | 494,000 | 41 |
Brasilia | 702 | 4 | Christian Rudolph | Germany | 461,000 | 38 |
Brasilia | 702 | 5 | Mario Prats | Spain | 734,000 | 61 |
Brasilia | 702 | 7 | Dohyung Kim | United States | 320,000 | 27 |
Brasilia | 702 | 8 | Scott Lychwick | United States | 330,000 | 28 |
Brasilia | 702 | 9 | Nicolas Careme | France | 535,000 | 45 |
Brasilia | 703 | 1 | Asi Moshe | Israel | 886,000 | 74 |
Brasilia | 703 | 2 | David Brown | United States | 281,000 | 23 |
Brasilia | 703 | 3 | Thomas Mcteer | United States | 219,000 | 18 |
Brasilia | 703 | 4 | Felipe Casanova | United States | 507,000 | 42 |
Brasilia | 703 | 6 | Davis Adams | United States | 210,000 | 18 |
Brasilia | 703 | 7 | John Phan | United States | 520,000 | 43 |
Brasilia | 703 | 9 | Goran Mandic | Croatia | 563,000 | 47 |