Hastings Currently Has Over 800k in Chips
Published on July 10th, 2015 8:39 pm EST
6,420 players elected to take part in this year's World Series of Poker main event, which is the eighth largest field in WSOP main event history. The result? A prize pool of $60,348,000, with the winner taking home $7,680,021.
There are currently 1,179 players left in the tournament with a great deal of play left in Day 3. The top 1,000 spots pay out a minimum of $15,000, which means that the money bubble in the event should be broken sometime this evening.
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Here are the top five chip leaders as of this moment:
Amar Anand, 859,000
Brian Hastings, 813,900
Calvin Lee, 710,000
Michael Shanahan, 618,000
Upeshka De Silva, 606,400
Brian Hastings has had a particularly eventful summer - in addition to winning two World Series of Poker bracelets ($1,500 10-Game Mix, $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship), Hastings has also been accused of both multi-accounting (under the "NoleHayes" account on Pokerstars) and playing on Pokerstars using a VPN from the United States. A comment from Hastings about another player angle-shooting during a live World Series of Poker event resulted in Hastings himself being accused of improprieties.
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Some of the other notable names who are still alive in the main event as of this moment include:
Matt Glantz, 416,000
Brandon Adams, 368,000
David Benefield, 350,000
Jake Cody, 290,000
David Sands, 262,000
Mike Matusow, 210,000
Justin Bonomo, 180,000
Daniel Negreanu, 125,800
Phil Hellmuth, 120,700
Antonio Esfandiari, 114,000
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Filed Under: The World Series of Poker