As it happens in every No Limit Holdem tournament, many people signed up for this tournament. More than 1200 players, making it a huge and important tournament. All those players made created a nice prizepool of $1,687,040, with a first prize of $372,843. Nice to note that this is a six-players-table tournament, and aggressiveness plays a really important role here.
Day 1 could be named fast and furious, The 1236 players were reduced to the number of 71! Among those eliminated were Antonio "the magician" Esfandianri, one of the internet best Sorel Mizzi aka imper1um or zangbezang24, and bracelet winner Erick Lindgren.
Day 2 started with the following players on the chiplead:
Matt Matros 156,600
Rep Porter 137,200
Thomas Fuller 110,200
Peter Marr 104,700
Avery Cardoza 99,300
Zachary Clark 94,000
William Mikolay 87,000
Jonas Danielsson 83,900
Tom Braband 82,700
Dave Zand 82,300
 In day 2 the plan was obviously to eliminate 65 players, so there would be only the 6 finalists. Just out of curiosity, from this chipleading top10 list after day 1, only the most successful player of them, Rep Porter, got to be in the final table. He has a handful of important results in his career, including a cash finish in the main event of last years WSOP.
Day 2 happened pretty fast. They had eliminated 59 players, so, 12 left, in just some hours, sooner than expected for the usual poker tournament. When there were 7 players alive, they decided to make it 7handed, so the 7 guys left played in a single table, instead of two with 4 and 3. The first to be eliminated would obviously be the final table bubble boy. And the one who burst the table was Kevin MacPhee. He lost his stack in two hands. First when his pocket eights lost against John Conkright queens, and right after when his J8 lost against kings. Yes, this time the favourites held well. MacPhee earned $36,442 for the 7th place.
After this elimination they ended the day, so check out the chipcount leading to the final table:
John Conkright 997,000
Michiel Brummelhuis 883,000
Rep Porter 732,000
Nathan Templeton 449,000
Devin Porter 357,000
Anthony Shilyuk 310,000
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