Ruslan Nazarenko Bags Heaps After Day 1 of Event #80: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha

After 10 one-hour levels of play, the first day of Event #80: $3,000 6-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha is officially complete. The Amazon Room inside the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino was nothing short of electric all day as alongside this event, the final day of the Main Event played to its conclusion.

Though today was only Day 1, the tournament contributed significantly to the action and excitement in the room as it filled up the Orange section of the Amazon room as a field of 496 entries for a $1,324,320 prize pool played down to just 122 players.

When the dust settled, it was Ruslan Nazarenko that bagged the chip lead with a massive stack of 616,500. He was far and away the chip leader, though he enjoys the company of a leaderboard full of notables. Chino Rheem (500,000), Maxx Coleman (496,000), Michael Moncek (445,000), and James Mordue (420,000) all bagged north of 400,000 at the end of the day and will look to build on that figure tomorrow.

Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts

RANK	PLAYER	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Ruslan Nazarenko	United Kingdom	616,500	247
2	Chino Rheem	United States	500,000	200
3	Maxx Coleman	United States	496,000	198
4	Steven Forman	United States	460,000	184
5	Michael Moncek	United States	445,500	178
6	James Mordue	United States	419,000	168
7	Joseph Haug	United States	358,500	143
8	Uri Reichenstein	Israel	357,500	143
9	Michael Hudson	United States	334,500	134
10	Robert Emmerson	United Kingdom	316,500	127

An interesting hand occurred the last hand of the night when Steven Forman flopped a set of ladies with the nut flush draw and dropped three players to finishing the night with a stack of 460,000. Other notables to advance to Day 2 include Uri Reichenstein (357,000), Michael Hudson (334,500), Anatolii Zyrin (280,500), and Ali Imsirovic (268,500).

Some players who were not as fortunate to make it to the end of the day included Craig Varnell, Chance Kornuth, Shaun Deeb, David Williams, and defending champ Alan Sternberg.

Day 2 continues Thursday at 2 p.m. local time with blinds of 1,000/2,500. Ten more one-hour levels are on the docket with a 15-minute break occurring after every two levels, and there will be a one-hour dinner break after the sixth hour of play.

There will be 124 players returning for Day 2 but almost half will have to drop before they will make any money as only the top 75 places will be paid out at least $4,819, while the winner of the event will take home $280,916 along with the coveted WSOP bracelet.

Event #80: $3K PLO Payouts

Position	Prize
1	$280,916
2	$173,613
3	$116,106
4	$79,368
5	$55,485
6	$39,688
7	$29,063
8-9	$21,800
10-12	$16,760
13-16	$13,215
17-25	$10,692
25-30	$8,885
31-36	$7,587
37-42	$6,664
43-48	$6,024
49-54	$5,648
55-60	$5,271
61-75	$4,819