Hungary's "benton24" Bags Day 2 Chip Lead in WCOOP Low Main Event
After nearly eight hours of play, Hungary's "benton24" bagged a chip leading stack of 21,233,809 in chips to end Day 2 of the WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE Main Event at PokerStars.
"benton24" wasn't the only player waving the Hungarian flag that will head to Day 3 with a big stack as both "anth0nypappa" and Day 1 chip leader "uzzy993" bagged top ten stacks.
Other players near the top of the leaderboard to end Day 2 included Romania's Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu, Brazil's "JuLiOcTas", and Indonesia's Akira "Clutch Hero" Ohyama.
2020 WCOOP Low $55 NLHE Main Event Day 2 Leaderboard
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | benton24 | Hungary | 21,233,809 | 133 |
| 2 | Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu | Romania | 19,076,666 | 119 |
| 3 | JuliOcTas | Brazil | 17,430,633 | 109 |
| 4 | anth0nypappa | Hungary | 17,366,619 | 109 |
| 5 | Akira "Clutch Hero" Ohyama | Indonesia | 15,849,423 | 99 |
| 6 | ID IMPOSS | United Kingdom | 15,592,653 | 97 |
| 7 | kevi1121 | Sweden | 13,991,937 | 87 |
| 8 | stealthfool | Canada | 13,936,209 | 87 |
| 9 | uzzy993 | Hungary | 13,144,744 | 82 |
| 10 | pocketj0k3rs | United Kingdom | 13,045,394 | 82 |
Day 2 Recap
More than 4,000 new entrants joined the action between the time Day 1 ended and Day 2 began to bring the final count up to 38,660 entrants with 12,570 players in action.
This increased the prize pool up to $1,933,000 to demolish the $1,250,000 guarantee on the event. A total of 5,463 players were guaranteed at least a min-cash with the $186,841 set aside for the eventual winner on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
It took less than two hours for the bubble to break with Ukraine's "vanja-berkyt" being the last player to exit the tournament empty-handed.
Five of the six PokerStars Ambassadors that started Day 2 were also unable to cash including Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban, Felix "xflixx" Schneiders, Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward, Georgina "GJReggie" James, and James "OP-Poker James" Mackenzie.
Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye had a better fate than his fellow Ambassadors and not only managed a min-cash but laddered up before exiting in 2,477th place for $166.
The day was scheduled to end with 160 players but three players were eliminated during the final hand to make it 158 players returning for tomorrow's Day 3 starting at 1:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST.
The action will resume with blinds still at 80,000/160,000 with an ante of 20,000 and will play down to a nine-max final table.
Stay tuned to see who makes the final table of the WCOOP Low NLHE $55 Main Event at PokerStars.