Day 2C of 2016 WSOP $10,000 Main Event is in the books with Gustavo Lopes of Brazil leading the survivors with 630,700 chips. Day 3 action will resume on Thursday with a combined field of 2176 players from Day 2AB and Day 2C. Valentin Vornicu will start the Day 3 proceedings in overall chip lead with a stack of 838,600 at blinds 1000/2000.
Team India is marching forward in the battle of the biggest poker tournament with 10 survivors in the field. Leading from front is Aditya Sushant with a stack of 367,400. Sharavan Chhabria, Akshay Bharadwaj and Phani Ramineni are the other Indians who qualified for Day 3 from Day 1C battle. They will join the fellow Indian players who made it to Day 3 from Day 1AB game. Here are the chip counts of Indian Players:
Aditya Sushant – 367,400
Raghav Bansal – 287,400
Shravan Chhabria – 184,000
Aditya Agarwal – 157,100
Akshay Bharadwaj – 138,400
Mauris Noronha – 136,400
Dhaval Mudgal – 88,800
Amit Jain – 82,500
Phani Ramineni – 32,900
Jaideep Sajwan – 31,700
Former champions that are still in the hunt for a second Main Event Championship include Phil Hellmuth (82,300), Ryan Reiss (349,000) and defending champion Joe McKeehen (183,900), who will hoping to do the impossible and win back to back Main Event titles. A feat that has not been accomplished since Johnny Chan managed it in 1987 and 1988.
As it stands currently the Top 10 stacks that are going into Day 3 are:
- Valentin Vornicu (838,600)
- Gustavo Lopez (630,700)
- 3.Raffaele Castro (587,000)
- Jamie Shaevel (586,000)
- Alvaro Lopez (573,000)
- Rafael Moraes (571,900)
- Albert Daher (570,200)
- Ramin Hajiyev (558,000)
- Michael Mizrachi (549,400)
- Chad Power (546,800)