Andion Leads Remaining 120 Players in Event #46: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack (8-Handed)
Day 2 of Event #46: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack (8-Handed) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel gets underway today at 12 p.m. local time with 120 players left remaining out of an initial field of 2,053. The remaining players will all be aiming for the WSOP Bracelet and the grand prize of $214,830.
Of those remaining players, Alejandro Andión of Argentina is the one on top with a massive stack of 2,400,000 which is almost 700,000 more than any other player.
Event #46 Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| RANK | PLAYER | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro Andion | Argentina | 2,400,000 | 80 |
| 2 | Joel Orum | Canada | 1,705,000 | 57 |
| 3 | Tommaso Briotti | Italy | 1,675,000 | 56 |
| 4 | Jonas Wexler | United States | 1,630,000 | 54 |
| 5 | William Blais | Canada | 1,600,000 | 53 |
| 6 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | 1,380,000 | 46 |
| 7 | Xiao Yu | United States | 1,345,000 | 45 |
| 8 | Virab Zakaryan | United States | 1,345,000 | 45 |
| 9 | Itzhak Ashkenazi | Israel | 1,325,000 | 44 |
| 10 | Gregory Giannokostas | United States | 1,275,000 | 43 |
Joel Orum brings the second-most chips to the tables today with 1,705,000 and Tommaso Briotti is right on his heels in third with 1,675,000. Jonas Wexler with 1,630,000 and William Blais with 1,630,000 round out the top five stacks as the only five players who will begin the day with more than 50 big blinds.
Some notable players who are still alive on Day 2 include, Koray Aldemir (1,380,000) with over $12 million in live tournament cashes and many more online, two-time WSOP bracelet winners James More, and Eric Baldwin (720,000), all-time WSOPC ring leader Maurice Hawkins (375,000) as well as Christian Harder (635,000) and 2019 millionaire maker champion John Gorsuch (240,000).
Day 2 is scheduled to play down to a winner, with 30-minute levels. The action restarts with the blinds at 15,000/30,000/30,000. With many stacks already on the very short end and even the big stacks not having a ton of wiggle room, play should come fast and furious all day as players will be hitting the rail at breakneck speed.
Stacks will shrink and grow as PokerNews will shepherd you through it all with timely updates of chip counts and big hands throughout the day.
Remaining Payouts
| Place | Prize Money |
| 1 | $214,830 |
| 2 | $132,802 |
| 3 | $98,269 |
| 4 | $73,271 |
| 5 | $55,279 |
| 6 | $42,031 |
| 7 | $32,254 |
| 8 | $24,982 |
| 9 | $19,533 |
| 10-11 | $15,417 |
| 12-13 | $12,286 |
| 14-16 | $9,886 |
| 17-24 | $8,033 |
| 25-32 | $6,591 |
| 33-40 | $5,463 |
| 41-48 | $4,573 |
| 49-56 | $3,868 |
| 57-64 | $3.305 |
| 65-72 | $2,853 |
| 73-80 | $2,489 |
| 81-99 | $2,195 |
| 100-135 | $1,956 |