Yushen Lin Leads the Field Coming into Day 2; Allen Kessler Looking to Add to His Cashes
The second day of Event #45: $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo will soon get underway at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas and the list of players remaining is a virtual who's who of bracelet winners and top level competitors. For those looking to etch their name onto the list of winners at the 2023 World Series of Poker, Day 2 will be moving day and the goal will not only be survival, but chip accumulation.
Yushen Lin bagged the overnight chip lead in a big way and will come back to 455,000 in chips with Scott Clements bagging the second largest stack of 274,000.
Rounding out the top ten chip counts are bracelet winners Joey Couden (234,000) and Allan Le (220,000). Multiple other notables are still alive including past champion Yueqi Zhu (162,500), Jermaine Reid (154,000), Shaun Deeb (147,000), Ben Lamb (146,000), Nick Kost (145,000) and Robert Mizrachi (137,500).
Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
1 | Yusheng Lin | Taiwan | 455,000 |
2 | Scott Clements | United States | 274,000 |
3 | Christopher Gallagher | United States | 241,500 |
4 | Jonathan Hart | United States | 235,000 |
5 | Joey Couden | United States | 234,500 |
6 | Caleb Furth | United States | 230,000 |
7 | Uzair Mulla | United States | 230,000 |
8 | Jeffrey King | United States | 227,500 |
9 | Allan Le | United States | 220,000 |
10 | Mark Erickson | United States | 212,000 |
Players will return at 1 p.m. local time and are scheduled to play ten 60-minute levels, playing seven hands of Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better, Limit Omaha 8 or Better, and Big O (Five Card Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better) in rotation.
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