Hundreds of players registered for PokerStars Cup’s Day 1A and Day 1B on Thursday. Individuals who exited the Main Event are eligible for the event. Gaming analysts predict that the tournament will attract more than two hundred players. It has a small buy-in and a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. Yet, Resorts World began the $550 PokerStars Cup. Only several tables are remaining in the NAPT Main Event. Yet, he will compete with Dianaty for the tournament’s top prize. Tomas Patka reached the Eureka and FPS’ final tables that PokerStars sponsored.

Statistics show that his poker event earnings exceed $15 million. Sergio Aido, a Spaniard is leading the European players with 1,635,000 chips. Most of the eight leading players in the tournament are Americans. Liran Betito is second on the leaderboard with 1,885,000 chips. They are almost twice his opponent’s stacks. Eventually, Dianaty took the stack lead late in the day with a 3,220,000 stack, equivalent to 129 big blinds.

Ryan Yu from South Korea-1,225,000 chipsĭay 2 was fast-paced as each player was determined to proceed to Day 3.

Timothy Rutherfold from Canada-1,305,000 chips.

Aaron Massey from the U.S.-1,425,000 chips.

Aditya Prasetyo from the U.S.-1,435,000 chips.

Scott Ball from the U.S.-1,785,000 chips.

Jonathan Borenstein from the U.S.-1,855,000 chips.

Nick Schulman from the U.S.-1,860,000 chips.

Liran Betito from the U.S.-1,885,000 chips.

Anthony Dianaty from the U.S.-3,220,000 chips.

Only 34 players advanced to the Main Event’s Day 3 which was scheduled to start at 12:30. However, many talented players such as Phil Hellmuth got busted without cashing.Įven so, a large number of the remaining players reached the money bracket including Landon Tice, Maria Konnikova, Jarred Jaffe, Matt Affleck, Anthony Zinno, Dongwoo Ko, and Shannon Shorr. More than 200 participants advanced to the Main Event’s Day 2.

Resorts World Las Vegas kept many poker players engaged in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT).

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