Six-time Bracelet Winner Jeff Lisandro Near the Top on Day 1 of $1,500 Seven Card Stud
Day 1 of the Event #31: $1,500 Seven Card Stud has concluded with Farhad Mobassery and Ron Brown sharing the chip lead over the remaining approximately 82 players.
310 players would take a seat throughout the day, and with it would see last year's numbers surpassed as a prize pool of $418,500 would be created that will see the final 47 players guaranteed a $2,250 payday, while $105,629 and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet will be awaiting whoever can ascend to the top.
Leading those players are Farhad Mobassery and Ron Brown, who bagged 80,800 and 79,300 to claim the top two spots. Right behind them is stud specialist and six-time bracelet winner Jeff Lisandro who bagged 70,200. Still in contention includes the likes of Bertrand Grospellier, Brandon Shack-Harris, Adam Friedman, Frankie O'Dell, Ben Yu and Carol Fuchs.
Defending champion Tom Koral never appeared to get the ball rolling today. A plethora of other stud game enthusiasts and fellow WSOP bracelet holders would also find themselves on the rail as the likes of Lawrence Berg, Matt Grapenthien, Calvin Anderson, Yuval Bronshtein, David Bach, Mike Leah, Humberto Brenes, Barry Greenstein, Max Pescatori, and previous winner of this event Richard Ashby were all unable to find a bag at the end of the day as roughly 82 players survived into Day 2.
Play resumes at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) on Friday, June 15, with the PokerNews Live Reporting team providing all the live updates of the Day 2 action. So stay tuned to PokerNews.com for the continued Event #31 coverage, along with all the 2018 World Series of Poker updates.