Avneesh Mujal Leads the Remaining 426 Players into Day 2!
The one and only Day 1 of Event #74: $1,000 Mini Main Event has officially come to a close at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas after 5,257 players showed up and created a prize pool of $4,678,730. After playing through 22 levels today, 426 of those players will return for Day 2 already in the money and guaranteed a payday worth $2,186.
The guaranteed payday will be the last thing on their minds, though, as there is a $549,555 first-place prize and a gold bracelet reserved for the eventual champion.
Of the remaining field, some of the biggest stacks returning include Avneesh Munjal (3,250,000), Ramiro Petrone (2,715,000), Raymond Ulatowski (1,800,000) and Jonathan Fhima (1,710,000) but they won't have an easy route to a Day 2 bag as JJ Liu (295,000), Stephen Song (585,000) and Camille Brown (1,615,000) all bagged chips as well.
End of Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avneesh Munjal | India | 3,250,000 | 81 |
| 2 | Liran Betito | Israel | 2,785,000 | 70 |
| 3 | Timur Margolin | Israel | 2,735,000 | 68 |
| 4 | Ramiro Petrone | Argentina | 2,715,000 | 68 |
| 5 | Jared Woodin | United States | 2,565,000 | 64 |
| 6 | Josh Reichard | United States | 2,515,000 | 63 |
| 7 | Sonny Franco | France | 2,435,000 | 61 |
| 8 | Elson Lima | United States | 2,400,000 | 60 |
| 9 | Daniel Swartz | United States | 2,275,000 | 57 |
| 10 | Daniel Shaw | United Kingdom | 2,175,000 | 54 |
Some notable names to fall with a payout in tow as the night came to a close include Marshall White, Steven Buckner, Dan Heimiller and Alex Foxen, who fell in a three-way all in pot a mere 30 minutes before the clock expired on Day 1.
Players will return to blinds of 20,000/40,000 and a big blind ante of 40,000 at 10:00 a.m. local time on July 3rd to play down to five and will do so playing 30-minute levels with 15-minute breaks every four levels and a dinner break scheduled after Level 34.
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