Event #89: $3,000 Mid-Stakes Championship Day 1b | 2024 World Series of Poker

Player	Chips	Progress
Dusti Smith	492,000 492,000	492,000

Zachary Zaret	465,000 465,000	465,000
Boris Kolev	417,000 417,000	417,000

Brock Wilson	381,500 381,500	381,500
Dmitry Blyumin	368,000 368,000	368,000
Jeff Madsen	362,500 362,500	362,500

Shashi Ramakrishna	359,000 359,000	359,000
Lance Garcia	353,500 353,500	353,500

David Brehme	344,500 344,500	344,500
Mo Nuwwarah	340,500 340,500	340,500

Evan Sandberg	336,000 336,000	336,000

Krasimir Yankov	321,000 321,000	321,000
Marcello Del Grosso	315,500 315,500	315,500
Li Zhang	312,500 312,500	312,500
Oleksii Kravchuk	311,500 311,500	311,500
Joshua Adcock	308,500 308,500	308,500
Brett Shaffer	307,500 307,500	307,500

Scott Ball	304,500 304,500	304,500

Chance Kornuth	304,500 304,500	304,500

Alon Shahar	304,000 304,000	304,000
Ryan Leng	302,000 302,000	302,000

Chakib Mhiri	285,500 285,500	285,500
Brian Arbaugh	285,000 285,000	285,000
Mihai Niste	283,000 283,000	283,000
Jason Kanel	278,000 -5,000	-5,000

Player

Chips

Progress

Dusti Smith

492,000

465,000

417,000

381,500

368,000

362,500

359,000

353,500

344,500

340,500

336,000

321,000

315,500

312,500

311,500

308,500

307,500

304,500

304,500

304,000

302,000

285,500

285,000

283,000

278,000

-5,000

The inaugural $3,000 Mid-Stakes Championship No-Limit Hold'em at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) proved popular with 1,161 entrants turning out for Day 1a of the event. We are still awaiting an official count for Day 1b, but with 593 players making it through Day 1b (for a total Day 2 field of 917) expectations are high.

Jonathan Newman (573,500) headed up the Day 1a chip counts, and holds his position after the Day 1b bags have been counted up. The Day 1b chip leader was Dusti Smith with a stack of 492,000, falling a fair bit short of Newman's stack.

Zachary Zaret (465,000) of Canada and Boris Kolev (417,000) of Bulgaria round out the Day 1b podium positions.

Top Ten Day 1b Chip Counts

Position	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Dusti Smith	United States	492,000	197
2	Zachary Zaret	Canada	465,000	186
3	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	417,000	167
4	Brock Wilson	United States	381,500	153
5	Dmitry Blyumin	Spain	368,000	147
6	Jeff Madsen	United States	362,500	145
7	Shashi Ramakrishna	United States	359,000	144
8	Lance Garcia	United States	353,500	141
9	David Brehme	United Kingdom	344,500	138
10	Mohammed Nuwwarah	United States	340,500	136

The top ten for Day 1b included some big names, including Brock Wilson (381,500), Jeff Madsen (362,500), Lance Garcia (353,500), and Mohammed Nuwwarah (340,500).

Other notables like Chance Kornuth, Ryan Leng, Chris Hunichen, Patrick Leonard, Jim Collopy, Stoyan Madanzhiev, Jamie Gold, Kane Kalas, and Ryan Riess also found bags.

Day 2 will start at 11 a.m. local time on July 13, and is expected to last for ten 60-minute blind levels. Blinds will start at 1,000/2,500 with a 2,500 big blind ante.

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Tags: Boris Kolev Brock Wilson Chance Kornuth Dusti Smith Jeff Madsen Jonathan Newman Mohammed Nuwwarah Ryan Riess Zachary Zaret