WSOP Main Event: Days 1 and 2 - The story so far
Thursday, July 12, 2007 | Adrian Milewski
The big one is well underway with the Amazon room at the Rio having been bustling with Main Event fever for the past 6 days.
Even though the field as expected is down on last years monster 8000+ field there was still 6,358 entrants which surpasses any other year apart from last year.
The Main Event schedule was amended at the last minute to spread the field out a bit more with the field being split into four individual day ones, Day 1a, Day 1b, Day 1c, and Day 1d. The survivors from Day 1a and 1b then combined into a Day 2a field, and the survivors from Day 1c and 1d combined into a Day 2b field.
Day 2b has just completed which represented the final day of split fields, as all remaining players from Day 2a and 2b will now be combined in a single field for Day 3 onwards.
There are 797 players remaining out of the original 6,358 entrants and all these players will return on Day 3 to battle to make it into the money which is expected to bubble during Day 3. With a total of 621 players on the payout structure we only have to lose a further 175 players to reach the bubble.
Former champions Chris Ferguson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Robert Varkonyi, Huck Seed, and Berry Johnston are still in the competition, whereas last years champion Jamie Gold and other former champions such as Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, and Chris Moneymaker have already been eliminated from the event.
WSOP legends Phil Helmuth, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan are also out, which means that Brunson and Chan will not be able to equal Helmuth’s record of 11 WSOP bracelets this year and must remain with 10 bracelets each until next year, or the WSOP Europe in September.
Other notable names that are still in the Main Event and heading into Day 3 are Gus Hansen, EPT creator John Duthie, Toby Maguire (Spiderman actor), online pro Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy, and Ted Forrest.
The prize money structure has been announced and this years first place will receive $8.5m which although down on last years $12m is still a massive payday.
The full payout structure is as follows.
- 1st $8,250,000
- 2nd $4,840,981
- 3rd $3,048,025
- 4th $1,852,721
- 5th $1,255,069
- 6th $956,243
- 7th $705,229
- 8th $585,699
- 9th $525,934
- 10th-12th $476,926
- 13th-15th $429,114
- 16th-18th $381,302
- 19th-27th $333,490
- 28th-36th $285,678
- 37th-45th $237,865
- 46th-54th $190,053
- 55th-63rd $154,194
- 64th-72nd $130,288
- 73rd-81st $106,382
- 82nd-90th $82,476
- 91st-99th $67,535
- 100th-162nd $58,570
- 163rd-225th $51,398
- 226th-288th $45,422
- 289th-351st $39,445
- 352nd-414th $34,664
- 415th-477th $29,883
- 478th-549th $25,101
- 550th-621st $20,320
Day 3 begins today and will be the first day that the entire remaining field is all in the same room at the same time and the top 20 chip stacks going into day 3 are as follows:
- Gus Hansen — 622,300
- Hevad Khan — 592,500
- Jeff Banghart — 570,100
- Jeff Weiss — 550,000
- Jon Monves — 549,800
- Brent Sheirbon — 549,300
- Tuan Lam — 538,500
- Markus Gonsalves — 512,400
- Bradley Ellis — 509,400
- Robert Nehorayan — 505,700
- Richard Weisman — 495,400
- Yuan-I Hsieh — 489,900
- Bill Edler — 486,700
- Kenny Tran — 484,900
- Alex Melnikow — 480,100
- Sorel Mizzi — 457,100
- Christian Toth — 452,900
- Andy Philachack — 451,500
- Conor Tate — 440,000
- Cory Carroll — 419,900
Qualifying for the Pokerstars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) is underway with $15m in guaranteed prize pools and a $5m guarantee for the main event. Win your seat now for one of the 17 events taking place in the online equivalent to the WSOP.
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