Joe Cada Looking to Continue Hot Summer in Day 2 of Event #26: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
This year the turnout for Event #26: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha was just shy of last year's, reeling in 968 runners. After 10 levels of play yesterday in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, there were 100 hopefuls finding a bag and moving onto Day 2 today which starts at 12 p.m. local time.
One name that stands out from the pack is 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada. Cada has three bracelets, all in no-limit hold'em, with one of them coming earlier this summer in Event #3: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. He joined this tournament later in the day, but instantly started to build a stack and will be going into Day 2 with above average chips of 57,800.
The biggest stacks that comprise the top five going into Day 2 include current leader Ryan Goindoo (196,000), Ivaylo Sivinov (192,900), Clint Montfort (173,900), Thayer Rasmussen (142,000), and Richard Tuhrim (141,700).
There are some other notables who made it through all ten levels yesterday, a list that includes Brazil's own Felipe Ramos (81,100), Germany's Martin Finger (72,200), Robert Cowen (58,900), Mark Dube (40,000), Mikhail Semin (44,700), and bracelet winner Calen McNeil (45,500).
Play will resume with Level 11 (600/1,200 blinds) and levels will be 60 minutes in length. The players will be getting a 15-minute break after every two levels of play, with a 60-minute dinner break coming after the sixth level. There will be ten levels played before players move on to the third and final day of play.
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| Room | Table | Seat | Name | County | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 400 | 1 | Timothy Mcdermott | United States | 57,400 | 48 |
| Amazon | 400 | 2 | Aaron Overton | United States | 45,900 | 38 |
| Amazon | 400 | 3 | Calen McNeil | Canada | 45,500 | 38 |
| Amazon | 400 | 4 | Pascal Damois | France | 54,800 | 46 |
| Amazon | 400 | 5 | Ammon Warner | United States | 47,600 | 40 |
| Amazon | 400 | 6 | Mason Reagan | United States | 35,000 | 29 |
| Amazon | 400 | 7 | Alexander Condon | United States | 63,300 | 53 |
| Amazon | 400 | 8 | Peter Klein | United States | 63,600 | 53 |
| Amazon | 400 | 9 | Vien Le | United States | 13,700 | 11 |
| Amazon | 401 | 1 | James Rubin | United States | 30,600 | 26 |
| Amazon | 401 | 2 | Kirill Gerasimov | Russia | 45,500 | 38 |
| Amazon | 401 | 3 | United Statessen | United States | 142,000 | 118 |
| Amazon | 401 | 4 | Thomas Kim | United States | 60,300 | 50 |
| Amazon | 401 | 5 | Trey Brabham | United States | 25,700 | 21 |
| Amazon | 401 | 6 | Benjamin Hunholz | United States | 37,100 | 31 |
| Amazon | 401 | 7 | Ken Aldridge | United States | 31,700 | 26 |
| Amazon | 401 | 8 | Arthur Morris | United States | 133,000 | 111 |
| Amazon | 401 | 9 | Jason Chung | United States | 24,900 | 21 |
| Amazon | 402 | 1 | Mark Dube | United States | 40,000 | 33 |
| Amazon | 402 | 2 | United States | United States | 49,700 | 41 |
| Amazon | 402 | 3 | Joe Cada | United States | 57,800 | 48 |
| Amazon | 402 | 4 | Yu Peng | Taiwan | 18,800 | 16 |
| Amazon | 402 | 5 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 100,000 | 83 |
| Amazon | 402 | 6 | Christian Harder | United States | 28,100 | 23 |
| Amazon | 402 | 7 | Joseph Leung | Canada | 14,100 | 12 |
| Amazon | 402 | 8 | Alan Kim | United States | 40,100 | 33 |
| Amazon | 402 | 9 | Matthew Colvin | United States | 16,100 | 13 |
| Amazon | 403 | 1 | Ivaylo Sivinov | Bulgaria | 192,900 | 161 |
| Amazon | 403 | 2 | Ioannis Angelou Konstas | Greece | 29,200 | 24 |
| Amazon | 403 | 3 | Ryan Goindoo | Trinidad and Tobago | 196,000 | 163 |
| Amazon | 403 | 5 | Denise Good | United States | 84,600 | 71 |
| Amazon | 403 | 6 | Jae Lim | United States | 73,600 | 61 |
| Amazon | 403 | 7 | Adrian Buckley | United States | 44,600 | 37 |
| Amazon | 403 | 8 | Martin Finger | Austria | 72,200 | 60 |
| Amazon | 403 | 9 | Christopher Aiello | United States | 46,600 | 39 |
| Amazon | 408 | 1 | Walter Chambers | United States | 45,500 | 38 |
| Amazon | 408 | 2 | Peter Gelencser | Hungary | 74,200 | 62 |
| Amazon | 408 | 3 | Jarred Solomon | South Africa | 68,600 | 57 |
| Amazon | 408 | 4 | Mark Ioli | United States | 24,500 | 20 |
| Amazon | 408 | 5 | Christopher Meyers | United States | 75,300 | 63 |
| Amazon | 408 | 6 | Nikolai Sears | United States | 40,600 | 34 |
| Amazon | 408 | 7 | United Statesak | United States | 30,900 | 26 |
| Amazon | 408 | 8 | Gabriel Andrade | United States | 22,000 | 18 |
| Amazon | 409 | 1 | Jeffrey Palarino | United States | 16,300 | 14 |
| Amazon | 409 | 2 | Bruce Rosen | United States | 23,500 | 20 |
| Amazon | 409 | 3 | Michael Cordell | United States | 36,500 | 30 |
| Amazon | 409 | 4 | Stephen Whitaker | United States | 42,100 | 35 |
| Amazon | 409 | 6 | Paul Evans | United States | 19,000 | 16 |
| Amazon | 409 | 7 | Pedro Rodriguez | United States | 26,500 | 22 |
| Amazon | 409 | 8 | Phillip Mighall | United Kingdom | 60,000 | 50 |
| Amazon | 409 | 9 | Steven Berkowitz | United States | 33,700 | 28 |
| Amazon | 410 | 1 | David Caruthers | United States | 20,000 | 17 |
| Amazon | 410 | 2 | Jeanmarc Thomas | France | 42,000 | 35 |
| Amazon | 410 | 3 | Georgios Karavokyris | Greece | 29,700 | 25 |
| Amazon | 410 | 4 | Marcel Vonk | Netherlands | 9,600 | 8 |
| Amazon | 410 | 5 | Bobac Medalian | United States | 24,500 | 20 |
| Amazon | 410 | 6 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 81,100 | 68 |
| Amazon | 410 | 8 | Roman Valerstein | United States | 98,100 | 82 |
| Amazon | 410 | 9 | Arthur Nelson | United States | 76,100 | 63 |
| Amazon | 411 | 2 | Floyd Bangerter | United States | 36,400 | 30 |
| Amazon | 411 | 3 | Joshua Teno | United States | 60,000 | 50 |
| Amazon | 411 | 4 | lan Dykshteyn | United States | 49,000 | 41 |
| Amazon | 411 | 5 | John Kabbaj | United Kingdom | 47,300 | 39 |
| Amazon | 411 | 6 | Mikhail Semin | Russia | 44,700 | 37 |
| Amazon | 411 | 7 | Adam Brown | United States | 26,300 | 22 |
| Amazon | 411 | 8 | Wei Yeh | United States | 14,900 | 12 |
| Amazon | 411 | 9 | Bradley Butcher | United States | 6,800 | 6 |
| Amazon | 416 | 1 | Mark Sandness | United States | 51,200 | 43 |
| Amazon | 416 | 2 | Colin York | United States | 34,500 | 29 |
| Amazon | 416 | 3 | Jan Larsson | Finland | 69,500 | 58 |
| Amazon | 416 | 4 | Srider Nadarajah | United States | 27,500 | 23 |
| Amazon | 416 | 5 | Joshua Larson | United States | 25,100 | 21 |
| Amazon | 416 | 6 | Lars Nickolai | Denmark | 20,800 | 17 |
| Amazon | 416 | 7 | Shannon Shorr | United States | 26,900 | 22 |
| Amazon | 416 | 8 | Ha Diep | United States | 67,400 | 56 |
| Amazon | 416 | 9 | Tom West | United States | 51,600 | 43 |
| Amazon | 417 | 1 | Robert Cowen | United Kingdom | 58,900 | 49 |
| Amazon | 417 | 2 | Mostafa Haidary | Austria | 54,400 | 45 |
| Amazon | 417 | 3 | Joshua Jones | United States | 31,500 | 26 |
| Amazon | 417 | 5 | Shiva Dudani | United States | 13,600 | 11 |
| Amazon | 417 | 6 | Thibaut Klinghammer | France | 42,600 | 36 |
| Amazon | 417 | 7 | Adam Johnson | United States | 40,700 | 34 |
| Amazon | 417 | 8 | Jordan Siegel | United States | 28,900 | 24 |
| Amazon | 417 | 9 | Leon Jones | New Zealand | 12,600 | 11 |
| Amazon | 418 | 2 | Artem Babakhanyan | Russia | 24,000 | 20 |
| Amazon | 418 | 3 | Jeffrey Landherr | United States | 13,800 | 12 |
| Amazon | 418 | 4 | James Hoeland | United States | 19,800 | 17 |
| Amazon | 418 | 5 | Filippos Stavrakis | United States | 141,500 | 118 |
| Amazon | 418 | 6 | Dawn Wilensky | United States | 90,100 | 75 |
| Amazon | 418 | 7 | United States | United States | 23,900 | 20 |
| Amazon | 418 | 8 | Clinton Monfort | United States | 173,900 | 145 |
| Amazon | 418 | 9 | Sean Troha | United States | 90,800 | 76 |
| Amazon | 419 | 1 | Jonathan Bryan | United States | 35,500 | 30 |
| Amazon | 419 | 2 | Keshava Persad | United States | 20,200 | 17 |
| Amazon | 419 | 3 | Richard Tuhrim | United States | 141,700 | 118 |
| Amazon | 419 | 4 | Phillip Cadolino | United States | 61,300 | 51 |
| Amazon | 419 | 5 | Thorben Vellrath | Germany | 17,700 | 15 |
| Amazon | 419 | 7 | Nick Guagenti | United States | 22,600 | 19 |
| Amazon | 419 | 8 | Ayed Shweihat | United States | 15,700 | 13 |
| Amazon | 419 | 9 | Brian Strack | United States | 17,600 | 15 |