Bryce Yockey, Defending Champ Benny Glaser Highlight Surviving Players on Day 1 of the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Championship
Bryce Yockey waited seven years to win his second World Series of Poker bracelet when he took down the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event earlier this series. His quest for a third might be a lot shorter.
Yockey ended Day 1 of Event #29: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship among the chip leaders with 213,000. He’s joined atop the leaderboard by fellow bracelet winners Naoya Kihara (237,000), Calvin Anderson (210,500), and Jason Mercier (206,500) as 65 players will return tomorrow.
End of Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Bets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naoya Kihara | Japan | 237,000 | 40 |
| 2 | Marco Johnson | United States | 227,000 | 38 |
| 3 | Bryce Yockey | United States | 213,000 | 36 |
| 4 | Calvin Anderson | United States | 210,500 | 35 |
| 5 | Jason Mercier | United States | 206,500 | 34 |
| 6 | Danny Noam | United States | 201,500 | 34 |
| 7 | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | 199,000 | 33 |
| 8 | Bin Weng | United States | 196,500 | 33 |
| 9 | Taylor Wilson | United States | 196,000 | 33 |
| 10 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 196,000 | 33 |
Defending champion Benny Glaser also advanced to Day 2 with 195,500, as did Bin Weng (196,500), Chino Rheem (175,500), Jeremy Ausmus (175,000), Chad Eveslage (162,500), and Nacho Barbero (155,000). Further down the leaderboard are Allen Kessler (123,500), Eric Wasserson (115,000), Paul Volpe (95,000), last year’s runner-up Oscar Johansson (82,500), and Yuri Dzivielevski (51,000).
A total of 125 players entered over the course of the day, putting the event on pace to surpass last year’s field of 130 with late registration still open for the first hour of Day 2. Among the players to miss out on bagging up for the night were Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Dylan Weisman, and Scott Seiver.
Day 2 resumes tomorrow (June 11) at 1 p.m. local time inside the Horseshoe Event Center. The action picks up on Level 10 with blinds of 1,500-3,000 and 3,000-6,000 limits. Levels 10-13 will be 60 minutes long before extending to 90 minutes with Level 14. Play will last eight levels on Day 2 before a champion is crowned on June 12.
PokerNews will be back tomorrow providing live updates from this star-studded field.