2011 World Series of Poker
Event #36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em
52 of 1734 left
Three Brits in the top ten
Top Chip Counts
1 Thomas Miller 1,000,000
2 Randy Dorfman 566,000
3 Alexis Bouchiouane 540,000
4 Nicholas Petrangelo 510,000
5 Franciscus Dekkers 445,000
6 Jerry Wong 415,000
7 Eddy Sabat 385,000
8 Steven Watts 375,000
9 Thomas Middleton 365,000
10 Benjamin Jenkins 355,000
Richard Gryko also still in
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha
150 OF 606 LEFT
Top Chip Counts
1 David Williams 136,700
2 Mitch Schock 121,600
3 Ashkan Razavi 115,800
4 Scott Clements 108,700
5 Adam Junglen 90,000
6 Carter Gill 69,900
7 Quinn Do 48,500
8 James Mitchell 42,000
9 Tom Schneider 40,000
10 Stephen Chidwick 40,000
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1 in the Books; Jon Spinks On Top
Day 1 of Event #38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em has officially ended after ten long levels of hard-played poker. Play began at 12 p.m. PDT with 2,192 hopefuls looking to claim WSOP glory and the $540,136 first-place prize that goes along with it. However, only 320 players survived to see Day 2, including defending WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel (13,500), Melanie Weisner (55,600), Bernard Lee (19,200), Sam Trickett (45,300) and Justin "Boosted J" Smith (32,300) Our big stacks heading to Day 2 include our current chip leader Jon Spinks (133,600), Gabriel Aleria (122,800) and David Rounick (121,200).
Notables unfortunate to bust early include David Williams, Randy "Nanonoko" Lew, Faraz Jaka, Liv Boeree, Matt Affleck, Dennis Phillips, Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner, Men Nguyen, Betrand "Elky" Grospellier and Antonio Esfandiari.
Top Chip Counts
1 Jon Spinks 133,600
2 Gabriel Aleria 122,800
3 David Rounick 92,000
4 Dustin Dorrance-Bowman 82,000
5 Bryan Devonshire 68,800
6 Robert Cheung 62,200
7 Melanie Weisner 55,600
8 Metin Kose 48,000
9 Sam Trickett 45,300
10 Jeff Watterworth 44,000