60 Left After Day 1 Of Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
We started Day 1 of Event #41 with 538 players and now we are down to 60. All of the remaining players are guaranteed $4,118, but all have their eyes on the first-prize $167,060 and of course, the shiny gold bracelet.
Tomorrow, there will be 10 six-handed tables that play down to our final table of 10. We started with an extremely stacked field including, Tom Dwan, Eric Baldwin, J.C. Tran, David Benyamine, Todd Brunson, Greg Mueller, Jean-Robert Bellande, Chau Giang, Sorel Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Jason Somerville, Lex Veldhuis, Humberto Brenes, Jonathan Little, and Barry Greenstein, all of whom did not make it.
Of those who won their tables and are still in contention for the bracelet and first prize money are Noah Boeken, Hoyt Corkins, Ari Engel, Jacobo Fernandez, and Sergey Rybachenko. Also included are Team PokerStars Pros Eugene Katchalov (Ukraine) and Victor Ramdin (USA) who both came back from 20-1 chip defects in heads-up play to take down their tables and make it to Day 2.
Be sure to check in at 2:30 p.m. PST where our coverage will resume and we will play down to our ten-handed final table.