The Closer - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #84)

The bustouts came fast and furious in the first level of the day as 24 players made their way to the payout desk.

Jeff Gross's table has just been broken after he eliminated an opponent. He was spotted heading to his new seat with a huge stack and is sat on roughly 1,550,000, which is likely good for the chip lead.

Jeff Gross

1,550,000

737,000

The final prize pool numbers have been posted. The total prize pool is $3,206,944, all returning players are guaranteed a min-cash of $3,500 and first place is worth $565,346 in cash and the WSOP gold bracelet.

Welcome to Day 2 of Event:84: $1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em. This tournament had a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, but the total of 2,800 entries over three starting flights pushed that number to a huge $3,206,944. 196 of those players have moved on to Day 2 and Tam Nguyen leads the way with an impressive 1,284,000 in chips. Close on his heels are WSOP bracelet winner Roman Korenev (1,198,000) and 2018 Player of the Year Shaun Deeb (1,172,000) followed by Denis Gnidash (1,058,000) and Griffin Abel (1,000,000) who round out the top five.

Joe Cada will also take his seat on Day 2 to defend his title but, with a chipstack of just 202,000, he's got his work cut out for him. Other bracelet winners that are also returning include Ari Engel (936,000), Mike Leah (519,000), Kristen Bicknell (319,000), Benjamin Moon (172,000) and Phil Hellmuth, who will be looking to spin up his stack of 142,000, which is less than 10 big blinds.

When play resumes it will be at level 21 with a small blind of 8,000, a big blind of 16,000 and an ante of 16,000. The levels are still 30 minutes in length and there will be a 15-minute break after every four levels of play. The dinner break is scheduled prior to the start of the final table and directly after that, those nine remaining players will come back and play down to a winner.

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The quest for one of the last remaining 2019 WSOP gold bracelets begins on Monday, July 15th at noon local time. The final prize pool numbers have yet to be posted, so it's not clear at this time what the Day 2 min-cash will be or exactly how much money the winner will take home, but what is guaranteed is that all 196 players are chasing the WSOP gold bracelet and six-figure score.

The PokerNews team will be on the floor to cover all the action from when the first is dealt until the last card hits the felt and the newest WSOP champion is crowned.