Diego Sanchez Leads the Remaining 49 Players
Welcome to Day 2 coverage of Event #45: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30-minute levels).
The starting field of 505 players is down to just 49 survivors, each looking to outlast the field and capture a coveted World Series of Poker bracelet along with the first-place prize of $527,555. On top of the chip counts entering Day 2 is Diego Sanchez with 661,000.
Sanchez found himself on the winning side of a race on the money bubble, eliminating Loni Harwood. Sanchez held pocket queens, Harwood had ace-king, and a third queen found the board to vault Sanchez up the leaderboard en route to his bagging the chip lead. Rounding out the top five are Dennis Blieden (561,000), Jake Bazeley (509,000), Max Silver (504,000), and Conor Beresford (488,000).
Action in Event 45 resumes at noon and will continue until a winner emerges.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 709 | 1 | Apostolos Bechrakis | Greece | 218,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 2 | Frank Kassela | United States | 444,000 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 3 | Conor Beresford | United Kingdom | 504,000 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 4 | Sean Loring | United States | 128,000 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 5 | Christopher Brammer | United Kingdom | 464,000 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 6 | Pete Chen | Taiwan | 135,000 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 7 | James Chen | Taiwan | 361,000 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 8 | Jonathan Concepcion | Spain | 207,000 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 9 | Quang Ngo | United States | 138,000 | 12 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 1 | Joseph Kohls | United States | 117,000 | 10 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 2 | Leonel Flores | United States | 177,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 3 | Jett Schencker | United States | 240,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 4 | Andrew Marson | United States | 272,000 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 5 | Clinton Harris | United States | 124,000 | 10 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 6 | Ty Reiman | United States | 191,000 | 16 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 7 | Alex Foxen | United States | 207,000 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 8 | Ashton Griffin | United States | 247,000 | 21 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 1 | Jason Tam | Canada | 297,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 2 | David Ormsby | Canada | 477,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 3 | Michael Tureniec | Sweden | 278,000 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 4 | Viliyan Petleshkov | Bulgaria | 293,000 | 24 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 5 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | United States | 385,000 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 6 | Oliver Weis | United States | 272,000 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 7 | Dennis Blieden | United States | 561,000 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 8 | Brant How | Canada | 210,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 1 | Javier Gomez | United States | 59,000 | 5 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 2 | Max Silver | United Kingdom | 504,000 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 3 | Kenneth Smaron | United States | 264,000 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 4 | Diego Sanchez | Mexico | 660,000 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 5 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 180,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 7 | Chris Moorman | United Kingdom | 179,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 8 | Ivan Deyra | France | 183,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 9 | Rui Ye | United States | 110,000 | 9 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 1 | [Removed:14] | United States | 219,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 2 | Dan Wirgau | United States | 60,000 | 5 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 3 | Liang Xu | China | 105,000 | 9 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 4 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 215,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 5 | James Akenhead | United Kingdom | 184,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 6 | Aditya Agarwal | India | 416,000 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 7 | Kyle Julius | United States | 236,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 8 | Jacob Bazeley | United States | 509,000 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 1 | Quan Zhou | China | 181,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 2 | Tobias Ziegler | Germany | 373,000 | 31 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 3 | Michael Brinkenhoff | United States | 171,000 | 14 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 4 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 219,000 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 5 | Neel Murthy | United States | 321,000 | 27 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 6 | Samuel Phillips | United States | 74,000 | 6 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 7 | Kenneth Ray | United States | 99,000 | 8 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 8 | Carlos Boyd | Panama | 145,000 | 12 |