Guilherme Barbosa Bags Chip Lead at End of Day 1 in Event #49
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Pot-limit Omaha is notorious for being an action game, so it's not at all surprising that chips flew around at a frantic pace on Day 1 of Event #49: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed. A total of 630 players took to the felt in this tournament, a number which surpassed last year's field size of 580.
The money bubble will likely be reached in fairly short order when play resumes on Monday at 2 p.m. local time. There will be 127 players taking chips out of the bag; 95 will cash and a min-cash is good for $4,499, but all eyes are on the $362,185 top prize and accompanying WSOP gold bracelet.
At the front of the pack is Guilherme Barbosa with 256,600, and nipping at his heels are Chino Rheem (214,400), Gionni DeMers (211,300), Samuel Higgs (200,100), the only other players who bagged stacks in excess of 200,000 chips. Next behind is Juha Helppi with 194,500.
More than a few well-known players bagged chips at the end of the night, including former WSOP Player of the Year Jeff Madsen (103,700) and recent bracelet winners Nadar Kakhmazov (154,200), Dmitry Yurasov (71,400) and Loren Klein (37,900). David Williams (84,800), Aron Dermer (85,800), Jason Wheeler (126,100), Mike Sexton (63,000), and James Obst (32,700) will all be back for Day 2 as well.
However, not all the familiar faces were fortunate enough to make it to the end of Day 1 play, including Daniel Negreanu, Matt Stout, Alan Le, and Jason Mercier, Chris Hunichen, Joe Hachem, Chance Kornuth, Noah Schwartz, Justin Bonomo, Dan Heimiller, Ryan Laplante, and defending champion Viatcheslav Ortynskiy.
Keep it here on PokerNews for all the updates for Event #49: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed and throughout the 2017 World Series of Poker.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miranda | 600 | 1 | Hunter Cichy | United States | 56,600 |
| Miranda | 600 | 2 | Jorn Walthaus | Netherlands | 54,100 |
| Miranda | 600 | 3 | Majid Yahyaei | United States | 38,000 |
| Miranda | 600 | 4 | Elia Ahmadian | United States | 76,600 |
| Miranda | 600 | 5 | Igor Sharaskin | Russia | 158,500 |
| Miranda | 601 | 1 | Chino Rheem | United States | 214,400 |
| Miranda | 601 | 2 | Jacek Ladny | Poland | 47,300 |
| Miranda | 601 | 3 | Sebastian Bastian | Bahamas | 1 |
| Miranda | 601 | 4 | Dong Suh | United States | 13,000 |
| Miranda | 601 | 5 | John Crisp | United States | 36,900 |
| Miranda | 601 | 6 | Jake Schwartz | United States | 37,500 |
| Miranda | 602 | 1 | Mark Reilly | Ireland | 94,000 |
| Miranda | 602 | 2 | Yuval Bronshtein | Israel | 42,000 |
| Miranda | 602 | 3 | Daniel Reijmer | Netherlands | 88,100 |
| Miranda | 602 | 4 | Samuel Higgs | United States | 200,100 |
| Miranda | 602 | 5 | Jared Bleznick | United States | 75,600 |
| Miranda | 602 | 6 | Thu Huyen | Canada | 52,700 |
| Miranda | 603 | 1 | Roussos Koliakoudakis | Greece | 80,800 |
| Miranda | 603 | 2 | Loren Klein | United States | 37,900 |
| Miranda | 603 | 3 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 71,400 |
| Miranda | 603 | 4 | Graham Stpeter | United States | 72,400 |
| Miranda | 603 | 5 | Robert Park | United States | 70,800 |
| Miranda | 603 | 6 | Gerhard Schleicher | Germany | 94,600 |
| Miranda | 604 | 1 | Josh Pollock | United States | 56,600 |
| Miranda | 604 | 2 | Jesse Yaginuma | United States | 35,900 |
| Miranda | 604 | 3 | Alex Venovski | United States | 60,900 |
| Miranda | 604 | 4 | David Williams | United States | 84,800 |
| Miranda | 604 | 5 | Frank Bonacci | United States | 29,000 |
| Miranda | 604 | 6 | Joshua Marvin | United States | 54,800 |
| Miranda | 609 | 1 | Luis Calvo | United States | 113,700 |
| Miranda | 609 | 2 | Roy Thung | United States | 50,000 |
| Miranda | 609 | 4 | Michael Trujillo | United States | 47,200 |
| Miranda | 609 | 5 | Antti Nieminen | Finland | 41,300 |
| Miranda | 609 | 6 | Jeff Hakim | Lebanon | 78,300 |
| Miranda | 610 | 1 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 97,000 |
| Miranda | 610 | 2 | Gionni Demers | United States | 211,300 |
| Miranda | 610 | 3 | Nhat Truong | United States | 90,100 |
| Miranda | 610 | 4 | Sean Kapul | United States | 83,500 |
| Miranda | 610 | 5 | James Obst | Germany | 32,700 |
| Miranda | 610 | 6 | Robin Ylitalo | Sweden | 58,400 |
| Miranda | 611 | 1 | Konstantin Beylin | United States | 119,200 |
| Miranda | 611 | 2 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | 135,300 |
| Miranda | 611 | 3 | George Abdallah | United States | 35,000 |
| Miranda | 611 | 4 | Kyle Montgomery | United States | 54,700 |
| Miranda | 611 | 5 | Rudolphk Sawa | United States | 83,100 |
| Miranda | 611 | 6 | Henri Koivisto | Finland | 40,800 |
| Miranda | 612 | 1 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 24,700 |
| Miranda | 612 | 2 | William Kakon | United States | 135,300 |
| Miranda | 612 | 3 | Peter Eichhardt | Sweden | 6,300 |
| Miranda | 612 | 4 | Tony Clough | United States | 69,300 |
| Miranda | 612 | 5 | Jordan Spurlin | United States | 56,200 |
| Miranda | 612 | 6 | Andrew Bathrick | United States | 91,400 |
| Miranda | 613 | 1 | Sam Soverel | United States | 114,400 |
| Miranda | 613 | 2 | Ben Palmer | United States | 128,600 |
| Miranda | 613 | 3 | Kenneth Wong | Canada | 14,400 |
| Miranda | 613 | 4 | James St Hilaire | United States | 130,700 |
| Miranda | 613 | 5 | Ka Kwan Lau | Hong Kong | 49,300 |
| Miranda | 618 | 1 | Aleksei Altshuller | Russia | 166,300 |
| Miranda | 618 | 2 | Martin Kozlov | Ireland | 25,200 |
| Miranda | 618 | 3 | Jeffrey Brunelle | United States | 99,100 |
| Miranda | 618 | 4 | Fabian Schoneck | Germany | 125,400 |
| Miranda | 618 | 5 | Shashank Jain | Germany | 24,800 |
| Miranda | 618 | 6 | Brad Libson | United States | 52,800 |
| Miranda | 619 | 2 | Dylan Linde | United States | 5,100 |
| Miranda | 619 | 3 | Orlando Romero | United States | 73,200 |
| Miranda | 619 | 4 | Kan Ying | China | 113,900 |
| Miranda | 619 | 5 | Melad Marji | United States | 132,000 |
| Miranda | 619 | 6 | Christian Harder | United States | 102,200 |
| Miranda | 620 | 1 | Danny Wong | United States | 67,500 |
| Miranda | 620 | 2 | Raymond Walton | United States | 65,200 |
| Miranda | 620 | 3 | Jason Wheeler | United States | 126,100 |
| Miranda | 620 | 4 | Sung Yi | United States | 52,200 |
| Miranda | 620 | 5 | Karim Lehoussine | France | 68,800 |
| Miranda | 620 | 6 | Jason Stockfish | United States | 48,900 |
| Miranda | 621 | 1 | Dirk Gerritse | Brazil | 108,600 |
| Miranda | 621 | 2 | Scott Palmer | United States | 91,200 |
| Miranda | 621 | 3 | Ivan Naumov | Russia | 143,800 |
| Miranda | 621 | 4 | Andrew Holland | United States | 29,700 |
| Miranda | 621 | 5 | JC Tran | United States | 14,900 |
| Miranda | 621 | 6 | Jim Collopy | United States | 48,600 |
| Miranda | 627 | 1 | Michael Krasienko | United States | 45,600 |
| Miranda | 627 | 3 | Alberto Fonseca | United States | 88,700 |
| Miranda | 627 | 4 | Kazuhiko Yotsushika | Japan | 41,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 5 | Brad Ruben | United States | 72,400 |
| Miranda | 627 | 6 | Dejuante Alexander | United States | 37,500 |
| Miranda | 628 | 1 | Jonathan Little | United States | 17,400 |
| Miranda | 628 | 2 | John Racener | United States | 34,800 |
| Miranda | 628 | 3 | Dylan Hortin | United States | 161,700 |
| Miranda | 628 | 4 | Luis Velador | United States | 35,900 |
| Miranda | 628 | 5 | Stewart Newman | United States | 10,400 |
| Miranda | 628 | 6 | John Beauprez | United States | 54,500 |
| Miranda | 629 | 1 | James Egerer | United States | 48,500 |
| Miranda | 629 | 2 | Joseph Williams | Canada | 39,200 |
| Miranda | 629 | 3 | Jeff Littlefield | United States | 61,000 |
| Miranda | 629 | 4 | Sebastian Ruiz | Chile | 102,500 |
| Miranda | 629 | 5 | Tanveer Dhanjal | Canada | 81,100 |
| Miranda | 629 | 6 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 104,500 |
| Miranda | 630 | 1 | Raviinder Vinayak | United States | 37,000 |
| Miranda | 630 | 2 | Brent Roberts | United States | 45,100 |
| Miranda | 630 | 3 | Aron Dermer | United States | 85,800 |
| Miranda | 630 | 4 | Eric Lescot | Russia | 31,500 |
| Miranda | 630 | 5 | Jeffrey Duvall | United Kingdom | 65,100 |
| Miranda | 630 | 6 | Keith Ferrera | United States | 113,300 |
| Miranda | 636 | 1 | Ryan Goindoo | Italy | 148,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 2 | Curtis Rystadt | United States | 123,400 |
| Miranda | 636 | 3 | Jiaqi Xu | United States | 28,400 |
| Miranda | 636 | 4 | David Paredes | United States | 110,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 5 | Hon Cheong Lee | Hong Kong | 141,400 |
| Miranda | 636 | 6 | Mike Sexton | United States | 63,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 1 | Stephen Chidwick | Germany | 12,900 |
| Miranda | 637 | 2 | Dustin Nelson | United States | 8,500 |
| Miranda | 637 | 3 | Jeff Madsen | United States | 103,700 |
| Miranda | 637 | 4 | Andreas Freund | Ireland | 97,800 |
| Miranda | 637 | 5 | Ricardo Furuguem | Brazil | 37,900 |
| Miranda | 637 | 6 | John Richards | United States | 15,300 |
| Miranda | 638 | 2 | Andrew Paterson | Canada | 57,900 |
| Miranda | 638 | 3 | Dan Liu | United States | 28,500 |
| Miranda | 638 | 4 | Joshua Dickinson | United States | 34,100 |
| Miranda | 638 | 5 | Scottson White | United States | 25,300 |
| Miranda | 638 | 6 | Tuan Le | United States | 10,100 |
| Miranda | 639 | 1 | Noah Bronstein | United States | 27,300 |
| Miranda | 639 | 2 | Nadar Kakhmazov | Russia | 154,200 |
| Miranda | 639 | 3 | Guilherme Rodrigues | Brazil | 256,600 |
| Miranda | 639 | 4 | Nicholas Vita | United States | 116,200 |
| Miranda | 639 | 5 | Charalampos Lappas | Brazil | 69,700 |
| Miranda | 639 | 6 | Matt O'Donnell | United States | 96,400 |
| Miranda | ? | ? | Eric Hicks | United States | 98,000 |