Championship Day 1B: Joey Couden Bags the Overall Lead

$3,500 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship
$2,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 343 of 911

Joey Couden

Day 1B of the 2018 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship drew 447 entries. Combined with the 464 Day 1A entries, the total field size was set at 911 entries.  The top 114 places will be paid, with a min-cash at $5,858 and first-place paying out $511,604, which includes a seat to the WPT Tournament of Champions.

Joey Couden is the overall chip leader entering Day 2, leading the way with 342,500, more than 40 big blinds ahead of his nearest competitor, which is Cong Pham with 297,300.

168 players survived on Day 1B, and they’ll return Sunday at noon with the 175 Day 1A survivors.

Full chip counts and the Day 2 table and seat draw will be posted by about 2:30 a.m.