Winter and Mateos Lead the Way Into Day 2 of $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em
The last and biggest six-figure buy-in tournament at the 2024 World Series of Poker, at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, continues today with Day 2 of Event #55: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em.
By yesterday's conclusion, 51 unique players coughed up the eye-watering price of $250,000 to sit down at the felt and compete against the best and brightest stars in the game. But for some, one bite of the apple wasn’t enough, with a total of seven players finding an additional quarter of a million dollars to reenter the tournament, rounding up the final tally on the clock to 58 entries in total.
Of those, 45 players bagged and tagged their chips for the Day 2 restart today, but with reentry still available for the first two levels of play, this figure is expected to grow.
It was Sean Winter who took pole position among this star-studded field, having accumulated 4,475,000 chips by the conclusion of Level 8. With a plethora of WSOP final tables already under his belt, Winter will be looking to convert this chip lead into the first gold bracelet win of his already plentiful poker career.
However, the path to the top won’t be an easy one for Winter, with Adrian Mateos following closely behind, having bagged his own stack of 4,210,000, the only other player to eclipse the four million chip mark.
End of Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean Winter | United States | 4,475,000 | 149 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 4,210,000 | 140 |
| 3 | Aram Oganyan | United States | 3,935,000 | 131 |
| 4 | Jonathan Jaffe | United States | 3,395,000 | 113 |
| 5 | Alex Kulev | Bulgaria | 3,020,000 | 101 |
| 6 | Leon Sturm | Germany | 2,960,000 | 99 |
| 7 | Jason Koon | United States | 2,830,000 | 94 |
| 8 | Santhosh Suvarna | India | 2,720,000 | 91 |
| 9 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 2,690,000 | 90 |
| 10 | Justin Saliba | United States | 2,670,000 | 89 |
With a fresh starting stack still worth fifty big blinds at the start of play today, it truly is anyone’s win to fight for.
Play will recommence at 12 p.m. local time with blinds at 15,000/30,000 with a 30,0000 big blind ante, as players battle through ten 60-minute levels with a 15-minute break after every two. There will also be a dinner break of 60 minutes after Level 14.
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