On the third day of the 50th Annual World Series of Poker, the low buy-in anniversary Big 50 tournament again took over the halls of the Rio Convention Center, requiring so much extra space for poker tables that they were set up in a bowling alley and areas normally reserved for storage. The turnout was more than even the most optimistic WSOP executives anticipated.
On Friday, May 31, this is what happened.
Event 1: $500 Casino Employees NLHE – Final
Total entries: 686Prize pool: $298,410Players paid: 103Final table results:1st place: Nicholas Haynes (USA) - $62,2482nd place: Isaac Hanson (USA) - $38,4473rd place: Jorge Ruiz (USA) - $26,6424th place: Jesse Kertland (USA) - $18,7585th place: Adam Lamers (Canada) - $13,4216th place: Jeffrey Fast (Canada) - $9,7617th place: Christopher Bowen (USA) - $7,2298th place: Joseph Appler (USA) - $5,4389th place: Travis Williams (USA) - $4,161
Event 3: $500 Big 50 NLHE – Day 2A & 1B
Entries: no estimates givenPrize pool: TBD ($5 million guaranteed)Players paid: TBDDay 2A players remaining: unclearDay 1B players remaining: 1,435Day 2A chip leader: Mikhail Vilkov (Russian Federation) – 3,475,000 chipsDay 1B chip leader: Matthew Keegan (USA) – 902,000 chipsDay 3 starting time: 11am on Wednesday, June 5Day 2B restarting time: 7pm todayDay 1C starting time: 10am todayDay 1D starting time: 10am on Sunday, June 2
The second starting day of the Big 50 was more chaotic than the first, mostly because of the very large turnout but also because of space issues. Players from the first flight restarted on Friday as well, and there simply wasn’t enough room to keep everyone at tables. Some new registrants waited hours for tables, and some of the poker tables were scattered around various parts of the casino, wherever space was available.
Action will be just as hectic today, as second-flight players return to play again and another new flight of players comes in to start.
Nicholas Haynes, a Las Vegas resident and poker dealer at ARIA, won his first gold bracelet when he finished first in the Casino Employees event on Friday. He took home the second WSOP bracelet of the summer.
On a historic note, the World Series of Poker announced that it awarded its three-billionth dollar on Wednesday when it paid a final table player in Event 2.
https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1134855691762409472
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