292 Return To Play For Bounties In The PokerNews Cup At Golden Nugget
The 2023 iteration of The $1,100 PokerNews Cup Mystery Bounty saw a massive turnout of 2,331 which created a prize pool of $2,261,070 and leaving only the 292 players who made it into the second day to play for the massive bounty prizes and the first place prize of $218,605.
Leading the way is Manoj Ravi who bagged 1,060,000. Ravi spent most of the day with a massive stack and even four levels away from bag held a bigger stack than any of the previous days’ chip leaders. The Indian born player has secured his first cash from Golden Nugget Las Vegas and with the only stack over one million chips, looks to have a good chance to take a decent amount of bounty prizes. With $125,475 in lifetime earnings, he could get his best career cash to date.
Top Ten Day 2 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manoj Ravi | United States | 1,060,000 |
| 2 | Anthony Kennedy | United Kingdom | 697,000 |
| 3 | Forrest Kollar | United States | 695,000 |
| 4 | Ruslan Sladkov | United States | 687,000 |
| 5 | Zal Irani | United States | 685,000 |
| 6 | Norman Michalek | United States | 682,000 |
| 7 | Agustin Naranja | Argentina | 679,000 |
| 8 | Pedro Ingles | Spain | 675,000 |
| 9 | Vid Zagar | Slovenia | 668,000 |
| 10 | Samuel Bifarella | France | 644,000 |
Thirteen prizes worth $10,000 or more sit in the prize rotation and the biggest stacks in the room like Ruslan Sladkov (695,000), Samuel Bifarella (644,000), Greg Himmelbrand (574,000), and Viet Vo (544,000) will look to use chips to find opportunities to win said bounties. Others that survived into the day include players like Tim Garles (449,000), David Jackson (335,000), Josh Prager (271,000), Ebony Kenney (195,000), and Xuan Liu (144,000), each looking to increase the piece they have locked up of the biggest PokerNews Cup prize pool ever.
Mystery Bounty Prizes
| Bounty Prize | Available |
|---|---|
| $100,000 | 2 |
| $75,000 | 2 |
| $50,000 | 2 |
| $25,000 | 2 |
| $15,000 | 2 |
| $10,000 | 3 |
| $6,000 | 10 |
| $2,000 | 7 |
| $1,500 | 22 |
| $1,000 | 235 |
| $500 | 5 |
Play ended with 16:25 left on the clock in Level 17 with blinds at 4,000/8,000. Play will begin at noon local time today, with 40-minute levels that have a 15-minute break after every three. Play will continue today until a final table is reached, after which the players will come back the following day at 2 p.m.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all updates regarding the biggest poker tournament ever at Golden Nugget, Las Vegas.