2015 World Series of Poker

Event #38: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2015 World Series of Poker

Event Info
Buy-in
$3,000
Prize Pool
$2,699,970
Entries
989
Players Left
989
Average Chip Stack
15,000
Total Chips
14,835,000

DeMaci Leads as 297 of 989 Advance from Day 1 of Event #38: $3,000 NLH

Chris DeMaci
Chris DeMaci

Day 1 of Event #38: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em attracted 989 runners, but by the end of the night just 297 remained with Chris DeMaci and his tack of 214,900 leading the way.

The tournament created a $2,699,970 prize pool that will be distributed to the top 117 finishers with the eventual winner taking home $546,843.

Others who advanced to Day 2 were Maria Ho (122,500), Tristan Wade (114,700), Brian Rast (82,200), Ryan Riess (77,100), John Gale (74,000), Martin Finger (67,200), and Martin Jacobson (61,900).

Of course not everyone was so lucky. Among those to fall on Day 1 were Jennifer Tilly, Dan O'Brien, Mike Leah, Brian Hastings, Tony Gregg, Jason Mercier, and Vanessa Selbst.

Top 10 Day 1 Chip Counts

PlacePlayerCount
1Chris DeMaci214,900
2Jorge Breda192,800
3Nick Yunis163,400
4Eric Afriat163,200
5Jesse Sylvia161,900
6James Gilbert148,500
7Akash Malik142,300
8Sotirios Koutoupas139,600
9Gal Erlichman139,000
10Eddie Blumenthal133,700

Day 2 will get underway at 1:00 p.m. local time in the Amazon Purple section with the plan of playing 10 one-hour levels.

Tags: Chris DeMaci