Faraz Jaka Day 1 Chip Leader in Event #36: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Valerie.Cross

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Day 1 of Event #36 $5,000 No-Limit Hold��em 6-Handed is in the books. The event drew 574 runners, up from 541 entries last year. After ten hour-long levels of play, 191 remain.

Many top players entered the field, but it was Faraz Jaka who bagged the chip lead. Jaka accumulated chips rapidly in the final levels of play and finished the night with a stack of 255,400. Dejan Boskovic (237,400), Steve Warburton (209,590), and Ankush Mandavia (202,900) also ended the first day of play over the 200,000-chip mark.

Some notable players who bagged over 100,000-chip stacks include Kitty Kuo (185,200), Mike Leah (161,000), Chris Hunichen (150,600), Olivier Busquet (142,400), Adrian Mateos (118,500), and John Racener (113,200).

Several other big names are also advancing to Day 2, including Antonio Esfandiari (89,800), Jeff Gross (88,400), James Obst (88,400), Bill Klein (72,600), Doug Polk (70,900), Alex Rocha (67,000), Dylan Linde (64,200), Mohsin Charania (58,900), Jason Les (57,800), Greg Merson (55,500), Daniel Negreanu (37,600), Andrew Lichtenberger (36,000), Stephen Chidwick (33,300), and Jason Mercier (26,900).

Some of those players unfortunate to bust out here on Day 1 include Eddy Sabat, three-time bracelet winner Frank Kassela, two-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon, 2010 Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel, 2013 Main Event champion Ryan Riess, November Niner Joshua Beckley, Christian Harder, and David Peters.

The event is scheduled to last three more days, with the Day 2 restart Monday at 2 p.m. The tournament director announced before the end of play that the complete prize pool and payout information will be available by the start of Day 2.

Room	Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Miranda	600	1	Jonathan Cohen	Canada	44,300	37
Miranda	600	2	Tanveer Dhanjal	Canada	119,600	100
Miranda	600	3	Carlos Boyd	Panama	63,700	53
Miranda	600	4	Phong Nguyen (WA)	United States	63,900	53
Miranda	600	5	Niall Farrell	United Kingdom	156,100	130
Miranda	600	6	Kane Kalas	United States	44,300	37

Miranda	601	1	Roman Korenev	Russia	38,400	32
Miranda	601	2	Alex Rocha	United States	67,000	56
Miranda	601	3	James Miller	United States	104,400	87
Miranda	601	4	Bart Lybaert	Meihelen, BE	37,000	31
Miranda	601	5	Andjelko Andrejevic	United States	51,000	43
Miranda	601	6	Jesse Sylvia	United States	71,300	59

Miranda	602	1	Paul Degiulio	United States	144,600	121
Miranda	602	2	Bernardo Dias	Brazil	18,200	15
Miranda	602	4	Stuart Marshak	United States	95,900	80
Miranda	602	5	Aditya Agarwal	Canada	44,300	37
Miranda	602	6	Martin Mathis	United States	66,400	55

Miranda	603	1	Robert Spano	Israel	23,400	20
Miranda	603	2	Aaron Kaiser	United States	100,500	84
Miranda	603	3	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	66,600	56
Miranda	603	4	Sergi Reixach	Spain	37,900	32
Miranda	603	5	Jimmy Guerrero	France	124,000	103
Miranda	603	6	Ho Kit Ng	Hong Kong	87,000	73

Miranda	604	1	Tuan Le	United States	50,500	42
Miranda	604	2	Dylan Linde	United States	64,200	54
Miranda	604	3	Shu Yu Chan	Canada	13,700	11
Miranda	604	4	Daniel Dizenzo	United States	131,600	110
Miranda	604	5	Patrick Mahoney	United States	66,300	55

Miranda	604	6	Patrick Leonard	Canada	60,000	50
Miranda	605	2	Tai Nguyen	United States	43,000	36
Miranda	605	3	Giuseppe Pantaleo	Germany	23,100	19
Miranda	605	4	Antonio Esfandiari	United States	89,800	75
Miranda	605	5	Harrison Gimbel	United States	31,200	26
Miranda	605	6	Rocco Palumbo	Italy	90,600	76

Miranda	606	1	Diegoalfonso Venturachunga	Peru	29,300	24
Miranda	606	2	Jason Les	United States	57,800	48
Miranda	606	3	Michael Mizrachi	United States	152,600	127
Miranda	606	4	Ran Ilani	Israel	47,500	40
Miranda	606	5	Louis Linard	France	103,700	86
Miranda	606	6	Russell Thomas	United States	174,200	145

Miranda	609	1	Uri Reichenstein	United States	136,600	114
Miranda	609	3	Rich Rice	United States	26,500	22
Miranda	609	4	Nick Palma	United States	70,000	58
Miranda	609	5	Imad Samouna	United States	82,400	69
Miranda	609	6	Yen Han Chen	Taiwan	50,800	42

Miranda	610	1	Thomas Paul	United States	134,100	112
Miranda	610	2	Dale Schuman	United States	17,800	15
Miranda	610	3	Jerry Payne	United States	25,400	21
Miranda	610	4	Tony Cousineau	United States	12,000	10
Miranda	610	5	John Gorsuch	United States	129,000	108
Miranda	610	6	Tim West	United States	40,900	34

Miranda	611	1	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	157,700	131
Miranda	611	2	DID NOT REPORT 1	United States	137,300	114
Miranda	611	3	Boris Kotleba	Slovakia	55,500	46
Miranda	611	4	Sam Soverel	United States	67,000	56
Miranda	611	5	Jim Collopy	United States	12,100	10
Miranda	611	6	Jon Ragnar Viggen	Norway	62,500	52

Miranda	612	1	Yan Shing Tsang	Hong Kong	55,600	46
Miranda	612	2	Garrett Garvin	United States	90,400	75
Miranda	612	3	Nadar Kakhmazov	Russia	74,800	62
Miranda	612	4	Jeff Hakim	Lebanon	66,600	56
Miranda	612	5	Joao Vieira	Portugal	27,900	23
Miranda	612	6	Yue Du	China	45,100	38

Miranda	613	1	Michael Gentili	Canada	53,200	44
Miranda	613	2	Dietrich Fast	Austria	130,600	109
Miranda	613	3	Julian Stuer	Germany	25,000	21
Miranda	613	4	Anatoly Filatov	United States	85,000	71
Miranda	613	5	Jose Tavares	United States	95,000	79
Miranda	613	6	Talal Shakerchi	United Kingdom	53,200	44

Miranda	614	1	William Klein	United States	72,600	61
Miranda	614	2	Damien Le Goff	United Kingdom	40,500	34
Miranda	614	3	Steve Gross	United States	37,100	31
Miranda	614	4	Chris Moorman	United Kingdom	51,200	43
Miranda	614	5	Kurt Lichtman	United States	28,800	24
Miranda	614	6	Valerii Lubenets	Ukraine	47,600	40

Miranda	615	1	Benjamin Stroh	United States	64,800	54
Miranda	615	2	John Crisp	United States	13,500	11
Miranda	615	3	Joseph Couden	United States	14,700	12
Miranda	615	4	Roy Thung	United States	65,000	54
Miranda	615	5	Paul Hoefer	Austria	13,300	11

Miranda	618	1	Matthew Leecy	United States	64,600	54
Miranda	618	2	Harish Palakuri	United States	59,200	49
Miranda	618	3	Faraz Jaka	United States	255,400	213
Miranda	618	4	Lisa Hamilton	United States	34,200	29
Miranda	618	5	Dejan Boskovic	Austria	237,400	198
Miranda	618	6	Fredrick Arni	United States	75,200	63

Miranda	619	1	Kurt Fitzgerald	United States	98,300	82
Miranda	619	2	Steven Warburton	United Kingdom	209,500	175
Miranda	619	3	David Litt	United States	57,300	48
Miranda	619	4	Salim Admon	United States	116,100	97
Miranda	619	5	Christopher Brammer	United Kingdom	24,200	20
Miranda	619	6	Chris Hunichen	United States	150,600	126

Miranda	620	1	Mohsin Charania	United States	58,900	49
Miranda	620	2	Dan Abouaf	France	72,000	60
Miranda	620	3	Rajkumar Ramakrishnan	Austria	35,700	30
Miranda	620	4	Anton Astapau	Latvia	145,500	121
Miranda	620	5	Rafael Lebron	United States	28,600	24
Miranda	620	6	Stephen Chidwick	United Kingdom	33,300	28

Miranda	621	1	Gilbert Diaz	France	112,000	93
Miranda	621	2	Tristan Wade	United States	44,000	37
Miranda	621	3	Marcos Antunes	Canada	86,200	72
Miranda	621	4	Jonathan Jaffe	United States	58,800	49
Miranda	621	5	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	80,800	67
Miranda	621	6	John Castaldo	United States	109,200	91

Miranda	622	1	Charlie Carrel	United Kingdom	40,000	33
Miranda	622	2	Eric Wasserson	United States	57,000	48
Miranda	622	3	Gerard Ohresser	France	63,500	53
Miranda	622	4	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	188,200	157
Miranda	622	5	Jasper Wetemans	Netherlands	84,600	71
Miranda	622	6	Jan Eric Schwippert	Germany	26,500	22

Miranda	623	1	Mazin Khoury	United States	29,100	24
Miranda	623	2	Robert Mather	United States	157,900	132
Miranda	623	4	Adam Owen	United Kingdom	68,000	57
Miranda	623	5	Zhaoxing Wang	United States	67,300	56
Miranda	623	6	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	24,700	21

Miranda	624	1	James Romero	United States	126,000	105
Miranda	624	2	Mohsin Virani	United States	84,000	70
Miranda	624	3	Christian Christner	United Kingdom	52,400	44
Miranda	624	4	Nick Petrangelo	United States	135,000	113
Miranda	624	6	Moritz Dietrich	Austria	102,200	85

Miranda	627	1	Jeff Gross	United States	88,400	74
Miranda	627	2	Ankush Mandavia	United States	202,900	169
Miranda	627	3	Mike Leah	Canada	161,000	134
Miranda	627	4	Tony Ruberto	United States	108,000	90
Miranda	627	5	Martin Jacobson	Sweden	89,600	75
Miranda	627	6	Alex Foxen	United States	50,100	42

Miranda	628	2	James Lex	United States	36,000	30
Miranda	628	3	Taylor Black	United States	142,200	119
Miranda	628	4	Jeffrey Trudeau	United States	109,300	91
Miranda	628	5	Davis Aalvik	United States	165,700	138
Miranda	628	6	Doug Polk	United States	70,900	59

Miranda	629	1	Fabian Quoss	MUNICH, , DE	94,600	79
Miranda	629	2	Garrett Greer	United States	107,400	90
Miranda	629	3	Pablo Mariz	Canada	59,600	50
Miranda	629	4	Hank Sitton	United States	55,300	46
Miranda	629	5	George Turner	United Kingdom	48,800	41
Miranda	629	6	John Racener	United States	113,200	94

Miranda	630	1	Blake Eastman	United States	40,700	34
Miranda	630	2	[Removed:172]	Austria	125,600	105
Miranda	630	3	Bobby Oboodi	United States	73,500	61
Miranda	630	4	Jacob Haller	United States	49,600	41
Miranda	630	5	Matthew Parry	United States	101,600	85
Miranda	630	6	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	69,900	58

Miranda	631	1	Shyam Srinivasan	Canada	63,500	53
Miranda	631	2	David Lopez	United States	52,300	44
Miranda	631	3	Joseph Cappello	United States	114,100	95
Miranda	631	4	Robert Park	United States	54,400	45
Miranda	631	5	Alexander Lynskey	Australia	45,600	38
Miranda	631	6	Timothy Cramer	United States	66,800	56

Miranda	632	1	Nicholas Wright	Australia	26,400	22
Miranda	632	2	James Obst	Australia	88,400	74
Miranda	632	3	Hector Rodriguez	United Kingdom	115,500	96
Miranda	632	4	Andrew Lichtenberger	United States	36,000	30
Miranda	632	5	Paul Dlugozima	United States	69,400	58
Miranda	632	6	Brendon Rubie	Australia	72,000	60

Miranda	636	1	Jason Mercier	United States	26,900	22
Miranda	636	2	Greg Merson	United States	55,500	46
Miranda	636	3	Christian Rudolph	Germany	63,800	53
Miranda	636	4	Joseph Alban	United States	36,400	30
Miranda	636	5	Asi Moshe	Israel	43,200	36
Miranda	636	6	Will Failla	United States	27,200	23

Miranda	637	1	Sean Getzwiller	United States	130,800	109
Miranda	637	2	Dario Sammartino	Canada	91,300	76
Miranda	637	3	Paul Michaelis	Germany	120,500	100
Miranda	637	4	Ahmed Abdella	Arabic Emirates	79,100	66
Miranda	637	5	Olivier Busquet	United States	142,400	119
Miranda	637	6	Vinny Ta	United States	22,100	18

Miranda	638	1	Thi Nguyen	Vietnam	57,000	48
Miranda	638	2	Benjamin May	United States	54,700	46
Miranda	638	3	Ryan Drossel	United States	98,300	82
Miranda	638	4	James Mackey	United States	66,000	55
Miranda	638	5	Cristiano Guerra	Italy	63,300	53
Miranda	638	6	Lev Milman	United States	112,600	94

Miranda	639	1	Luke Haag	United States	46,600	39
Miranda	639	2	Adrian Mateos	Spain	118,500	99
Miranda	639	3	Kyle Bowker	United States	89,000	74
Miranda	639	4	Ryan Jones	United States	74,600	62
Miranda	639	5	Lyle Randall Vincent	United States	1	0
Miranda	639	6	Christopher Staats	United States	69,500	58

Miranda	640	1	Roy Upshaw	United States	33,000	28
Miranda	640	2	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	37,000	31
Miranda	640	3	Ian O'Hara	United States	93,800	78
Miranda	640	4	Jonathan Little	United States	117,800	98
Miranda	640	5	Julian Parmann	United States	121,600	101
Miranda	640	6	Oliver Weis	United States	67,300	56

Miranda	641	1	Rob Tepper	United States	82,700	69
Miranda	641	2	Simon Deadman	United Kingdom	63,600	53
Miranda	641	3	Adrien Delmas	United Kingdom	83,600	70
Miranda	641	4	Daniel McAulay	United Kingdom	33,300	28
Miranda	641	5	Alexandre Reard	France	83,500	70
Miranda	641	6	Layne Flack	United States	92,300	77