Welcome to Day 2 of Event #40: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better
It's time for another day of split-pot, seven-card action as Event #40: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better returns for Day 2 with 141 players remaining out of a starting field of 595.
Things get rolling at 2 p.m. at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, and when the first card is dealt, it will be Jeff Madsen everyone is looking to catch at the top of the counts. The four-time bracelet winner bagged up more than 10 starting stacks on a productive Day 1 run that saw him narrowly finish ahead of Jeff Mitseff, Cole Jackson and the controversial Chris Ferguson.
Other notables advancing include Randy Ohel, Chris Bjorin, Joe Hachem, Mike Watson and Dzmitry Urbanovich. The starting seat draw can be found right here.
The plan for Day 2 is to play another 10 levels, with a one-hour dinner break scheduled for roughly 8:30 p.m. once six levels have been played.
With 90 places paid and 141 players left, the tournament should hit the money in the first half of the day, before the dinner break. Players min-cashing in the event will be paid $2,242, but everyone has their eyes on the first-place prize of $173,228. Keep your eyes on PokerNews throughout the day to see who can best position themselves to make a run for that cash and the gold bracelet.