Yesterday’s field of 179 in the penultimate $5,000 preliminary event of the Five-Star World Poker Classic created a prize pool just short of $900,000. After 14 hours of grueling play, the field made the money at 18 and finished the day with 16 of the world’s best, all vying for the first place prize of $337,000.
Here are the complete chip counts heading into the final day.
Shannon Shorr – 209,000
Hevad “Rain” Khan – 200,500
James “mig.com” Mackey – 198,000
Bill Blanda – 197,500
Danny Wong – 130,000
Lee Watkinson – 117,000
James Hoeppner – 98,500
Bruno Fitoussi – 95,000
Erick Lindgren – 89,500
Joe Graziano – 87,000
Nick Binger – 85,500
Corwin “vitalmyth” Cole – 71,000
Keith Carter – 67,500
Michael Binger – 57,000
Noah Jefferson – 51,000
Erik Cajelais – 42,500
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