Midway through the second-to-last level of the night, the final 95 players in the summer’s first $10,000 No-Limit Hold 'em event, the GGMillion$ High Roller, received the news they’d been waiting for after almost 20 hours of play. They were in the money.
From the starting field of 627 entries, those players had locked up at least a $19,999 min-cash on the road to the summer’s first seven-figure payday that comes with a bracelet, $1,089,964 to be exact.
Eight tables alive for a milly
By night’s end, just 64 players bagged up to return at noon PT on Wednesday to play down to the final five players. They’ll be led by Russian Anatoly Nikitin, who brings 2,820,000 chips into the penultimate day of the event. Joey Weissman is second with 2,800,000, and Andrew Lichtenberger, who earned almost $1.8M from WSOP High Roller events last summer, enters with the third-best stack of 2,760,000.
Plenty of other big names will be coming back with a shot at the million-dollar-plus payday, including ‘Texas’ Mike Moncek (1,500,000), Stephen Chidwick (1,300,000), Terrance Reid (1,200,000), John Racener (865,000), Chris Brewer (710,000), David Coleman (420,000), and Jesse Lonis (260,000).
This star-studded, marquee event has taken over the new WSOP mothership inside the Paris ballroom and will be the highlight of the World Series of Poker’s daily livestream coverage again when play resumes on Wednesday.
Event #11: GG Million$ High Roller end of Day 2 chip leaders:
- Anatoly Nikitin (Russia) – 2,825,000 (141 BBs)
- Joey Weissman (USA) – 2,800,000 (140 BBs)
- Andrew Lichtenberger (USA) – 2,770,000 (139 BBs)
- Roman Hrabec (Czechia) – 2,340,000 (117 BBs)
- Sean Perry (USA) – 2,245,000 (112 BBs)
- Chad Lipton (USA) – 2,015,000 (101 BBs)
- Luciano Macchiarelli (Argentina) – 1,915,000 (96 BBs)
- Andrew Moreno (USA) – 1,865,000 (93 BBs)
- Barak Wisbrod (Israel) – 1,560,000 (78 BBs)
- Michael Moncek (USA) – 1,480,000 (74 BBs)
Images courtesy of the WSOP.
