The World Series of Poker Main Event is down to 7 players.
After six hours of enactment successful the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship astatine Horseshoe Events Center, play was halted precocious Monday with Lucas Jumalon maintaining the spot lead.
Jumalon, a 22-year-old nonrecreational poker subordinate from Spokane, Washington, has 212 cardinal chips, doubly arsenic galore arsenic his adjacent closest competitor.
The Main Event continues astatine 4 p.m. Tuesday astatine Horseshoe Events Center with ESPN’s sum scheduled to statesman astatine 5 p.m. The champion is acceptable to beryllium crowned Wednesday connected ESPN.
All the remaining players are guaranteed $1.5 cardinal but are chasing the $10 cardinal apical prize.
“We conscionable dodged the landmines,” Jumalon said successful an interrogation with ESPN. “I deliberation I did a beauteous bully occupation contiguous bobbing and weaving. We mislaid a mates of mean pots and hung successful determination and stemmed the tide a small bit. It was a bully day.”
While Jumalon maintained his spot lead, Han Feng was the biggest mover going from eighth spot astatine the commencement of play to 2nd place. Dressed successful a pinkish feather boa and afloat cosplay arsenic Donquixote Doflamingo from the Japanese anime “One Piece,” Feng finished with 106.5 cardinal chips.
Feng was connected fumes astatine 1 constituent precocious Monday but survived an all-in against eighth-place finisher Mario Boos to double-up and continued to physique his stack aft that with well-timed aggression. He won a large cookware with pouch queens connected the last manus of the nighttime against Lauri Saaskilahti of Finland.
Saaskilahti was 1 of the astir progressive players passim and finished successful 3rd spot with 84.5 cardinal aft starting the last array seventh successful chips.
There were lone 2 eliminations Monday, with Evagoras Evagorou of Cyprus leaving successful ninth spot and Boos departing successful eighth.
Rami Hammoud, Michael Gagliano, Jamie Shaevel are each near with little than 20 large blinds, portion Greg Mueller starts Day 2 of the last array arsenic the abbreviated stack with 11 large blinds.
Chip counts
Lucas Jumalon 212 million
Han Feng 106.5 million
Lauri Saaskilahti 84.5 million
Rami Hammoud 45.5. million
Michael Gagliano 42 million
Jamie Shaevel 33 million
Greg Mueller 29.5 million
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