10 Players to Battle for Gold Bracelet on Saturday; Samuel Bifarella Leads the Way
After an exciting ten 60-minute levels of play, the second day of Event #34: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em at the 2022 World Series of Poker at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas is officially complete.
158 players started Day 2, but only ten remain from the original 1,774 runners. They have all made the unofficial final table and will compete for the iconic World Series of Poker gold bracelet along with an impressive $364,899 top prize.
All players have already secured $24,407 and seven out of 10 will be looking for their first career WSOP bracelet win.
A pair of Frenchmen are at the top, with Samuel Bifarella being the Day 2 chipleader with 10,455,000, while Maxime Parys is not far behind with 8,370,000.
2011 WSOP bracelet winner Justin Pechie is in third with 5,050,000 with another Frenchman, Michel Leibgorin, in fourth with 3,970,000.
Two-time bracelet winner Steve Zolotow is in fifth place with 3,960,000 in chips and will need to survive just one more elimination to make his 22nd career WSOP final table and second of 2022. Zolotow finished fourth in Event #3: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em, marking his first final table since 2010.
Rounding out the top-10 are Dwayne Sullivan (3,245,000), David Dibernardi (2,985,000), Kenny Robbins (2,765,000), WSOP bracelet winner Jeremy Wien (2,265,000), and Orson Young (1,235,000).
Day 3 will start in Level 28, with the blinds kicking off at 50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 big blind ante. All remaining players have at least 12 big blinds, with nine players holding onto at least 22 big blinds, so plenty of exciting poker can be played.
Some of the familiar names that fell in Day 2 include Landon Tice, Jamie Kerstetter, WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, bracelet winner Barry Shulman, Kevin Schulz, Garry Gates, WSOP Circuit Ring stud Maurice Hawkins, four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, and 2021 WSOP Main Event Champion Koray Aldemir.
The players will return at 1 p.m. local time and play down to a winner, taking 15-minute breaks every two 60-minute levels, with a possible dinner break that will be determined on Saturday.
Follow all the updates here on PokerNews through to the conclusion of this event, as well as the rest of the events from the WSOP's new home at the Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.