$2,200 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-out)
Level 12: 600/1,200/200 Ante

With only a matter of a few minutes to go in tonight’s play and everyone in the money, a ton of action sent two more players home and Rayan Chamas into the chip lead.

The aggressive Chamas managed to take out Ami Alibay in 15th place and then Will Failla finally lost his short stack falling in 14th.  Both players pick up $4,500 for their efforts tonight.

Chamas will come back in the lead with 214,700 chips but barely as tablemate Javier Gomez bagged 204,800 and Konstantinos Pantaridis closed out the night with 189,000 for third.

Former WSOP Main Event Champions Ryan Riess and Jonathan Duhamel will return to play sitting next to each again until the table break at twelve players.  Riess brings back 132,000 and Duhamel bagged 118,000.

The final thirteen including top pros Zo Karim, Anthony Zinno, Joe Kuether and Barry Hutter will return tomorrow in an all-star field with a top prize of $63,775 on the line tomorrow at 3 PM.

Table 1
Seat 1: Lawrence Whyte – 65,300
Seat 2: Konstantinos Pantaridis – 189,000
Seat 3:
Seat 4: Glen Cressman – 66,700
Seat 5:
Seat 6: Anthony Zinno – 88,900

Table 2
Seat 1:
Seat 2: Jonathan Duhamel – 118,800
Seat 3: Ryan Riess – 132,000
Seat 4: Barry Hutter – 89,700
Seat 5: Mengchao Yu – 70,000
Seat 6: Joe Kuether – 116,100

Table 3
Seat 1: Zo Karim – 122,100
Seat 2: Rayan Chamas – 214,700
Seat 3:
Seat 4: Otto Palacios – 22,400
Seat 5: Javier Gomez – 204,600
Seat 6:

Day 1 Chip Counts:
Rayan Chamas – 214,700
Javier Gomez – 204,800
Konstantinos Pantaridis – 189,000
Ryan Riess – 132,000
Zo Karim – 122,100
Joe Kuether – 116,100
Jonathan Duhamel – 118,000
Barry Hutter – 89,700
Anthony Zinno – 88,900
Mengchao Yu – 70,000
Glen Cressman – 66,700
Lawrence Whyte – 65,300
Otto Palacios – 22,400