Wells Bags Big Lead on Day One
Event #3 $500 Deepstack Black Chip Bounty NLH drew a Borgata Poker record for this event with a massive 1,165 total entries.
There are approximatly 170 players returning for day two and it's Cody Wells at the top of the chip counts with 1,108,000. Wells was a one man wrecking crew collecting seven $100 bounties throughout the night.
Phong "VIP" Nguyen built a big stack early and he will return in second chip position with 710,000.
Some of the other players to bag big include WSOP bracelet winner Erik Cajelais (494,000), Jianming Zeng (647,000), Nir Shami and David Jackson (356,000)
Day two play will resume on Saturday January 18 at 12 PM in the Event Center and will play down to a winner. A full list of day two chip counts and seating assignments will be posted before the start of play.