Sascha Wilhelm Tops the Counts of Event #86: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha

From 4,280 entrants, 463 players came back today to the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, for Day 2 of Event #86: $1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2024 World Series of Poker.

This inaugural tournament created a prize pool of $3,616,800, with the winner taking home a substantial sum of $282,290 and the prestigious gold bracelet.

After a long day during which a few players discovered the joys of opening big mystery bounties, only 10 players remain and have successfully qualified for Day 3. Among these players is Germany's Sascha Wilhelm, who topped the counts with 36,250,000 in chips.

Despite losing a substantial portion of his chips to Adam Adams when 17 players remained, Wilhelm maintained his composure during the last few levels of play and surged into the lead. He currently only has one WSOP cash to his name, back in 2014, when he finished 40th in a No-Limit Hold'em event. With just shy of $70,000 in live tournament earnings and a career-high score of $23,623, Wilhelm has positioned himself perfectly to smash those results during tomorrow's play.

Day 2 Chip Counts

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Sascha Wilhelm	Germany	36,250,000	73
2	Bryce Yockey	United States	33,950,000	68
2	Adam Adams	United States	25,625,000	51
4	Brandon Caputo	United States	16,625,000	33
5	Amit Benyacov	Israel	15,850,000	32
6	James Cavanaugh	United States	15,700,000	31
7	Oshri Lahmani	Israel	12,250,000	25
8	Daisuke Ogita	Japan	10,675,000	21
9	Robert Cowen	United States	2,975,000	6
10	Juan Lapido	Spain	1,575,000	3

Hot on his heels, the United States' Bryce Yockney is second in chips. Yockey is on the hunt for his third bracelet. He has already had a very successful summer at the WSOP, winning a bracelet in Event #8: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha for $606,654 and finishing second to Daniel Negreanu in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. A third-place finish or better would push Yockney's career live tournament earnings over $6,000,000. Undoubtedly, he is one of the favorites to end up at the top of the podium by the end of play tomorrow.

Yockey was involved in a massive three-way all-in with 22 players remaining, resulting in him claiming the bounties of Rajendara Dhar and bracelet winner Scott Bohlman. With Bohlman having already committed his chips on the flop, Yockey called Dhar's all-in on the turn with a monster wrap and found the dream river to send them both to the cashier's desk while he dashed over to the bounty payouts to collect another prize.

All the remaining players started the day having guaranteed themselves a minimum cash prize of $1,390. However, they all set their sights on being among the lucky few to secure a top bounty of $100,000. The two luckiest players to snag those bounties were Emmanuel Poznanski and Weimin Hou, who did so during the first few levels of the day. Unfortunately, Weiman and Poznanski couldn't make deep runs, finishing 334th and 209th, respectively.

Many notable players made it through to Day 2 today, such as Matt Glantz (434th - $1,390), Pedro Neves (427th - $1,390), Dash Dudley (409th - $1,390), three-time bracelet winner Ryan Leng (336th - $1,500), Jeff Madsen (330th - $1,500), Leo Margets ($240th - $1,810), Toby Lewis (218th - $2,030), four-time bracelet winner Chance Kornuth (174th - $2,290), and 2013 Main Event Winner Ryan Riess (105th - $2,610).

Action will resume in the Horseshoe Events Center at 1:00 p.m. local time on July 12 and end when a winner is crowned. The players will resume play at Level 35 with 250,000/500,000 binds and a big blind ante of 500,000. They will play 40-minute levels with a 15-minute break after every three levels.