Grayson Ramage Leads After Day 1 of Event #42
Level 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Day 1 of Event #42: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship is in the books after 10 one-hour levels. About 129 players remain from the 332 that registered today. Fifty players will make the money, cashing for at least $15,091, but they all have their sights set on the first-place prize of $775,923 and the World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
Bagging the chip lead was Grayson Ramage (527,700). Having amassed a stack early in the day, Ramage was on top of the counts for the final four levels without ever really being challenged for the chip lead. Second in chips is bracelet winner Sam Stein (364,500), then William Stevenson (355,100), and he is followed by two-time bracelet winner Cliff Josephy (330,300).
Other big stacks include Ryan Leng (298,400), Goran Mandic (258,800), Rainer Kempe (254,400), Matt Berkey (253,000), Kristen Bicknell (239,400) and Olivier Busquet (201,400).
Defending champion Martin Kozlov failed to make it through the day as he ran into aces full against Matt O’Donnell. Some other notables who failed to survive were multiple bracelet winners Daniel Negreanu, Paul Volpe, Antonio Esfandiari, Shaun Deeb, Upeshka De Silva, Doug Polk and Jason Mercier.
Play resumes Thursday at 2 p.m. and the PokerNews team will be on hand to provide live updates on all of the action.
Day 2 Seat Draw
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| Brasilia | 708 | 1 | Joe Kuether | United States | 109,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 2 | Jonathan Cohen | Canada | 58,100 | 29 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 3 | Scott Eskenazi | United States | 56,600 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 4 | Sam Trickett | United Kingdom | 122,000 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 5 | Brock Parker | United States | 175,700 | 88 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 6 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 40,800 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 1 | Petr Bartagov | Russia | 108,000 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 2 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 133,000 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 3 | Greg Merson | United States | 147,700 | 74 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 4 | Layne Flack | United States | 210,700 | 105 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 5 | Ross Mallor | United States | 100,100 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 6 | Charlie Carrel | United Kingdom | 197,700 | 99 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 1 | Paul Dlugozima | United States | 95,000 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 2 | Mosley Dominique | United States | 42,400 | 21 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 3 | Roy Upshaw | United States | 194,500 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 4 | Cliff Josephy | United States | 330,300 | 165 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 5 | Sam Stein | United States | 364,500 | 182 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 6 | David Malka | United States | 155,200 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 1 | Rafael Moraes | Brazil | 43,400 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 2 | Quan Zhou | China | 156,600 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 4 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | United States | 131,900 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 5 | Venkat Chivukula | United States | 232,400 | 116 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 6 | Ben Tollerene | United States | 146,200 | 73 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 1 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 50,400 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 2 | Chi Zhang | United Kingdom | 142,400 | 71 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 3 | Matt Glantz | United States | 66,900 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 4 | Steven Arsnes | Norway | 84,900 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 5 | Nick Schulman | United States | 118,900 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 6 | Fabian Quoss | Germany | 107,300 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 64,400 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 2 | Jesse Martin | United States | 109,300 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 3 | Christian Harder | United States | 68,400 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 4 | Mohsin Charania | United States | 246,900 | 123 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 5 | Elio Fox | United States | 149,000 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 6 | Oliver Weis | Germany | 124,100 | 62 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 1 | Dietrich Fast | Austria | 18,000 | 9 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 2 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 25,000 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 3 | Ran Ilani | Israel | 129,600 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 4 | Jonathan Duhamel | Canada | 133,800 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 5 | Joshua Beckley | United States | 138,600 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 6 | Lyle Randall Vincent | United States | 159,400 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 1 | Anatoly Filatov | United States | 125,000 | 63 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 2 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 109,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 3 | Goran Mandic | Croatia | 258,500 | 129 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 4 | Jason Les | United States | 30,300 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 5 | Shannon Shorr | United States | 36,100 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 6 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 110,500 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 1 | Eric Wasserson | United States | 99,000 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 2 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 146,100 | 73 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 3 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 136,700 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 4 | Sean Getzwiller | United States | 88,600 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 5 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 134,400 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 6 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 160,500 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 1 | Anton Astapau | Latvia | 104,100 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 2 | Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 131,900 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 3 | Christian Rudolph | Germany | 53,600 | 27 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 4 | Jacob Powers | United States | 230,000 | 115 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 5 | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 214,100 | 107 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 6 | Noah Schwartz | United States | 59,500 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 1 | Mike Gorodinsky | United States | 124,900 | 62 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 2 | Calvin Lee | South Korea | 51,800 | 26 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 3 | [Removed:414] | Malta | 134,800 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 4 | John Andress | United States | 185,000 | 93 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 5 | Romain Lewis | France | 199,100 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 6 | John Racener | United States | 99,300 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 1 | Kristen Bicknell | Canada | 239,400 | 120 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 2 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 68,000 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 3 | Chris Klodnicki | United States | 131,200 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 4 | Andreas Olympios | United Kingdom | 143,600 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 5 | Chang Luo | China | 49,500 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 6 | Matt Berkey | United States | 253,000 | 127 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 1 | David Sandhu | Canada | 37,100 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 2 | Charles Furey | United States | 91,900 | 46 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 3 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 161,200 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 4 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 254,400 | 127 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 5 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 157,300 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 6 | Adrien Allain | France | 88,000 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 1 | Jonathan Concepcion | Spain | 155,000 | 78 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 2 | Dan Smith | United States | 50,300 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 3 | Phil Hellmuth | United States | 60,000 | 30 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 4 | Sorel Mizzi | Canada | 64,500 | 32 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 5 | Albert Daher | Lebanon | 152,200 | 76 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 6 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 228,300 | 114 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 1 | James Obst | Australia | 105,300 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 2 | Tony Gregg | United States | 72,500 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 3 | Robert Heidorn | Germany | 42,700 | 21 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 4 | Joseph Elpayaa | United States | 194,700 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 5 | Chris George | United States | 40,900 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 6 | Mike Watson | Canada | 99,600 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 1 | Phong Nguyen | United States | 162,000 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 2 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 80,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 3 | Daniel Rudd | United Kingdom | 133,300 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 4 | Mian Wei | United Kingdom | 138,200 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 5 | Michael Mizrachi | United States | 35,800 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 6 | Amit Makhija | United States | 160,900 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 1 | Bobby Oboodi | United States | 138,600 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 2 | Jeff Gross | United States | 39,100 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 3 | William Stevenson | United States | 355,100 | 178 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 4 | Shyam Srinivasan | Canada | 56,500 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 5 | Bartlomiej Machon | Poland | 108,100 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 6 | Alexandru Papazian | Romania | 147,000 | 74 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 1 | Isaac Baron | United States | 108,600 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 2 | Jonathan Jaffe | United States | 69,900 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 3 | Chris Hunichen | United States | 161,600 | 81 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 4 | Tommy Chen | United States | 65,000 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 5 | Phillip McAllister | United Kingdom | 157,100 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 6 | Josh Arieh | United States | 24,700 | 12 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 1 | Matt O'Donnell | United States | 245,600 | 123 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 2 | Michael Telker | United States | 87,500 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 3 | Brian Green | United States | 151,600 | 76 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 4 | Zhaoxing Wang | United States | 39,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 5 | Levan Karamanishvili | Georgia | 39,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 6 | Scott Mayfield | United States | 165,300 | 83 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 1 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 73,300 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 2 | Ben Yu | United States | 149,300 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 3 | Jason Mcconnon | United Kingdom | 82,700 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 4 | Scott Horowitz | United States | 135,700 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 5 | Grayson Ramage | United States | 527,700 | 264 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 6 | Steve Sung | United States | 34,800 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 1 | Xixiang Luo | China | 238,700 | 119 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 2 | Ankush Mandavia | United States | 35,600 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 3 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 70,000 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 4 | Cary Katz | United States | 134,000 | 67 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 6 | Olivier Busquet | United States | 201,400 | 101 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 2 | Ivan Deyra | France | 132,500 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 3 | Connor Drinan | United States | 81,100 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 4 | Ryan Leng | United States | 298,400 | 149 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 5 | Adrien Delmas | France | 200,200 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 6 | Jack Duong | United States | 56,000 | 28 |