Grayson Ramage Leads Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship with 129 Returning
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship. This event always brings out some of the toughest competition around and Wednesday was able to prove that by drawing 332 runners with big names like Daniel Negreanu, Shaun Deeb, Jason Mercier and Doug Polk not even making it through Day 1.
Leading the way after Day 1 is Grayson Ramage. Ramage has already cashed once this series, not surprisingly in Event #27: $3,000 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed. There he finished in 109th place collecting $4,594. Ramage only has one World Series of Poker final table under his belt, where he finished ninth in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout event in 2015, but perhaps he will be able to carry this chip lead to a second final table or even his first World Series of Poker bracelet. Ramage starts the day with a commanding lead over the field after finishing last night with 527,700 chips.
Of course, all the players are also vying for the $775,923 first-place prize. Fifty of the remaining 129 players will make it to the money, where a min-cash will be worth $15,091. Some of the big names trying to chase Ramage and squeeze into the money include Cliff Josephy (330,300), Rainer Kempe (254,400), Matt Berkey (253,000), Mohsin Charania (246,900) and Kristen Bicknell (239,400).
Day 2 is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. PDT and PokerNews will be here with updates from throughout the day, so stay tuned.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| Brasilia | 708 | 1 | Joe Kuether | United States | 109,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 2 | Jonathan Cohen | Canada | 58,100 | 29 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 3 | Scott Eskenazi | United States | 56,600 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 4 | Sam Trickett | United Kingdom | 122,000 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 5 | Brock Parker | United States | 175,700 | 88 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 6 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 40,800 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 1 | Petr Bartagov | Russia | 108,000 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 2 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 133,000 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 3 | Greg Merson | United States | 147,700 | 74 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 4 | Layne Flack | United States | 210,700 | 105 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 5 | Ross Mallor | United States | 100,100 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 6 | Charlie Carrel | United Kingdom | 197,700 | 99 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 1 | Paul Dlugozima | United States | 95,000 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 2 | Mosley Dominique | United States | 42,400 | 21 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 3 | Roy Upshaw | United States | 194,500 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 4 | Cliff Josephy | United States | 330,300 | 165 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 5 | Sam Stein | United States | 364,500 | 182 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 6 | David Malka | United States | 155,200 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 1 | Rafael Moraes | Brazil | 43,400 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 2 | Quan Zhou | China | 156,600 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 4 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | United States | 131,900 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 5 | Venkat Chivukula | United States | 232,400 | 116 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 6 | Ben Tollerene | United States | 146,200 | 73 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 1 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 50,400 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 2 | Chi Zhang | United Kingdom | 142,400 | 71 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 3 | Matt Glantz | United States | 66,900 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 4 | Steven Arsnes | Norway | 84,900 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 5 | Nick Schulman | United States | 118,900 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 6 | Fabian Quoss | Germany | 107,300 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 64,400 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 2 | Jesse Martin | United States | 109,300 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 3 | Christian Harder | United States | 68,400 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 4 | Mohsin Charania | United States | 246,900 | 123 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 5 | Elio Fox | United States | 149,000 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 6 | Oliver Weis | Germany | 124,100 | 62 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 1 | Dietrich Fast | Austria | 18,000 | 9 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 2 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 25,000 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 3 | Ran Ilani | Israel | 129,600 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 4 | Jonathan Duhamel | Canada | 133,800 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 5 | Joshua Beckley | United States | 138,600 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 6 | Lyle Randall Vincent | United States | 159,400 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 1 | Anatoly Filatov | United States | 125,000 | 63 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 2 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 109,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 3 | Goran Mandic | Croatia | 258,500 | 129 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 4 | Jason Les | United States | 30,300 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 5 | Shannon Shorr | United States | 36,100 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 6 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 110,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 1 | Eric Wasserson | United States | 99,000 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 2 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 146,100 | 73 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 3 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 136,700 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 4 | Sean Getzwiller | United States | 88,600 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 5 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 134,400 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 6 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 160,500 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 1 | Anton Astapau | Latvia | 104,100 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 2 | Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 131,900 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 3 | Christian Rudolph | Germany | 53,600 | 27 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 4 | Jacob Powers | United States | 230,000 | 115 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 5 | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 214,100 | 107 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 6 | Noah Schwartz | United States | 59,500 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 1 | Mike Gorodinsky | United States | 124,900 | 62 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 2 | Calvin Lee | South Korea | 51,800 | 26 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 3 | [Removed:414] | Malta | 134,800 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 4 | John Andress | United States | 185,000 | 93 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 5 | Romain Lewis | France | 199,100 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 6 | John Racener | United States | 99,300 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 1 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 239,400 | 120 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 2 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 68,000 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 3 | Chris Klodnicki | United States | 131,200 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 4 | Andreas Olympios | United Kingdom | 143,600 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 5 | Chang Luo | China | 49,500 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 6 | Matt Berkey | United States | 253,000 | 127 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 1 | David Sandhu | Canada | 37,100 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 2 | Charles Furey | United States | 91,900 | 46 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 3 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 161,200 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 4 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 254,400 | 127 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 5 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 157,300 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 6 | Adrien Allain | France | 88,000 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 1 | Jonathan Concepcion | Spain | 155,000 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 2 | Dan Smith | United States | 50,300 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 3 | Phil Hellmuth | United States | 60,000 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 4 | Sorel Mizzi | Canada | 64,500 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 5 | Albert Daher | Lebanon | 152,200 | 76 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 6 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 228,300 | 114 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 1 | James Obst | Australia | 105,300 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 2 | Tony Gregg | United States | 72,500 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 3 | Robert Heidorn | Germany | 42,700 | 21 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 4 | Joseph Elpayaa | United States | 194,700 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 5 | Chris George | United States | 40,900 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 6 | Mike Watson | Canada | 99,600 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 1 | Phong Nguyen | United States | 162,000 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 2 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 80,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 3 | Daniel Rudd | United Kingdom | 133,300 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 4 | Mian Wei | United Kingdom | 138,200 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 5 | Michael Mizrachi | United States | 35,800 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 6 | Amit Makhija | United States | 160,900 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 1 | Bobby Oboodi | United States | 138,600 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 2 | Jeff Gross | United States | 39,100 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 3 | William Stevenson | United States | 355,100 | 178 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 4 | Shyam Srinivasan | Canada | 56,500 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 5 | Bartlomiej Machon | Poland | 108,100 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 6 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 147,000 | 74 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 1 | Isaac Baron | United States | 108,600 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 2 | Jonathan Jaffe | United States | 69,900 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 3 | Chris Hunichen | United States | 161,600 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 4 | Tommy Chen | United States | 65,000 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 5 | Phillip McAllister | United Kingdom | 157,100 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 6 | Josh Arieh | United States | 24,700 | 12 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 1 | Matt O'Donnell | United States | 245,600 | 123 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 2 | Michael Telker | United States | 87,500 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 3 | Brian Green | United States | 151,600 | 76 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 4 | Zhaoxing Wang | United States | 39,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 5 | Levan Karamanishvili | Georgia | 39,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 6 | Scott Mayfield | United States | 165,300 | 83 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 1 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 73,300 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 2 | Ben Yu | United States | 149,300 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 3 | Jason Mcconnon | United Kingdom | 82,700 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 4 | Scott Horowitz | United States | 135,700 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 5 | Grayson Ramage | United States | 527,700 | 264 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 6 | Steve Sung | United States | 34,800 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 1 | Xixiang Luo | China | 238,700 | 119 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 2 | Ankush Mandavia | United States | 35,600 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 3 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 70,000 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 4 | Cary Katz | United States | 134,000 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 6 | Olivier Busquet | United States | 201,400 | 101 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 2 | Ivan Deyra | France | 132,500 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 3 | Connor Drinan | United States | 81,100 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 4 | Ryan Leng | United States | 298,400 | 149 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 5 | Adrien Delmas | France | 200,200 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 6 | Jack Duong | United States | 56,000 | 28 |