Day 2 of the PokerStars Championship Panama Begins Today!
Day 2 of the first ever PokerStars Championship Panama $5,000 Main Event is beginning at noon local time at Sortis Hotel, Spa and Casino. Igor Yaroshevskyy leads the way with 219,600 and is the only player to have crossed the 200,000 mark so far.
UFC Hall of Famer, Tito Ortiz, strolled in on Day 1a and did some damage on the felt, bagging the second-most chips with 182,000 and is still second overall. Jason Koon sits in third in chips and looks to add yet another title to his resume, while Day 1b leader, Jiachen Gong, follows him with 154,300 and Caufman Talley rounds out the top five with 150,300.
Team PokerStars Pro, Jake Cody, held on after jumping in late in the day yesterday and bagged more than he started with, sitting at 36,100. Team PokerStars Pro Online, Jaime Staples, is nursing a stack of 4,700, but don't count him out as he looks to best his deep run in the Bahamas, finishing in 27th place there.
With 171 survivors from both of the starting flights, along with any latecomers at the start of the day, there is lots of poker to be played! Registration will remain open until the first card is dealt in the opening level today. The remaining players will complete six, 75-minute levels at which point they will bag and tag their stacks to come back for Day 3 tomorrow.
Blinds will begin at 500/1,000 with an ante of 100 and there will be a break every two levels. Day 3 begins on Thursday at noon local time.
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