Sam Trickett, Josh Arieh & Dan Smith Lead Charge on Day 2
Welcome back to the 2014 World Series of Poker Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. Yesterday this tournament attracted 550 of the best players in the world, which created a prize pool of $2,585,000. Today, 170 of those players will return for 10 more one-hour levels of play, during which time they hope to crack the top 56 players to make the money with the hope of making it all the way to the $633,341 first-place prize.
The man best positioned to make a run at it is none other than 2012 WSOP $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop runner-up Sam Trickett, who will begin today as the chip leader with 172,000. Josh Arieh (151,200), Dan Smith (144,400), Steven Kerr (123,900), and Fred Kulikowski (122,500) round out the top five big stacks.
Others returning today include Jeff Madsen (114,500), Chris Tryba (111,900), Sorel Mizzi (84,000), Jason Somerville (78,200), Dan Shak (77,000), Mike “Timex” McDonald (51,000), Vanessa Selbst (39,500), Igor Kurganov (39,200), Jennifer Tilly (36,200), Philipp Gruissem (28,700), John Juanda (25,200), and Jason Mercier (18,200).
Day 2 action is set to get underway at 1 p.m. local time, which is about an hour from now. Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the latest and greatest from Event #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold'em.