Riess, Harder Among Those Returning for Final Day $2,100 Bounty Event
Only 54 players remain ahead of Day 2 of $2,100 Bounty Event at The Return - A Borgata Championship Event and among them is Ryan Riess as the 2013 World Series Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner looks to run up his short stack of just seven big blinds.
Others who will join the World champ in the Day 2 action when it kicks off at 1 p.m. local time include Christian Harder, Nick Pupillo, Soukha Kachittavong, Andrew Ostapchenko and Day 1 chip leader Jason Lee, who finds himself with a seven-figure stack good for 126 big blinds.
$2,100 Bounty Event Top 10 Chip Counts
| RANK | PLAYER | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Lee | 1,008,000 | 126 | |
| 2 | Nir Cohen | 715,000 | 89 | |
| 3 | Christopher Ackerman | 687,000 | 86 | |
| 4 | Ross Feldman | 640,000 | 80 | |
| 5 | Joseph Couden | 636,000 | 80 | |
| 6 | Anthony Piacquadio | 610,000 | 76 | |
| 7 | Daniel Williams | 563,000 | 70 | |
| 8 | George Janssen | 558,000 | 70 | |
| 9 | Joseph Yun | 546,000 | 68 | |
| 10 | Dominick Sannino | 507,000 | 63 |
Day 2 action will get underway at 1 p.m. local time with 26 minutes left to play of Level 17 with blinds of 4,000/8,000/8,000. Levels will last 40 minutes in duration and players will be provided 15-minute breaks every four levels. The day is scheduled to play down to a winner, who will take home the top prize of $120,753.
The event will play out in the same room as Day 3 of the $5,300 The Return, where just 52 players remain in the hunt for the $1,206,097 up top.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting time in on-site here in Atlantic City and will be providing all the updates on both events.