$1,650 No-Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty (Re-Entry) 
Level 17: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining 15 of 129
Average Stack: 103,000 (34 bb)

The big Purple Chip Bounty tournament drew an even 150 entries and exactly ten percent of the field survived the full 16 levels on Day 1. They made the money late on the first day with 18 getting paid before they paused for an overnight break with 15 players remaining.

WSOP bracelet winner Joey Weissman holds a huge lead at the restart while SHRP regular Richard Rice is the shortest of the 15 remaining players and Seminole Hard Rock Poker team member Stewart Newman is in the middle of the pack.

Cards go back in the air at 2pm and we’ll continue to follow the action.

Table 7
Seat 1: Joseph Zelnick – 138,500 (46 bb)
Seat 2: Larry Baxter – 121,000 (40 bb)
Seat 3: –empty–
Seat 4: Stanley Lee – 91,000 (30 bb)
Seat 5: Mike Comisso – 52,500 (17 bb)
Seat 6: Stewart Newman – 124,500 (41 bb)
Seat 7: –empty–
Seat 8: Jeff Manders – 91,500 (30 bb)
Seat 9: Richard Rice – 31,000 (10 bb)

Table 8
Seat 1: Gilbert Diaz – 59,000 (19 bb)
Seat 2: Joey Weissman – 273,000 (91 bb)
Seat 3: Griffin Abel – 102,000 (34 bb)
Seat 4: Igor Merda – 122,000 (40 bb)
Seat 5: Dmitry Savelyev – 141,000 (47 bb)
Seat 6: Erik Christensen – 71,000 (23 bb)
Seat 7: Frank Silverstein – 42,500 (14 bb)
Seat 8: –empty–
Seat 9: Jack Duong – 77,500 (25 bb)

1st: $39,294
2nd: $23,035
3rd: $13,550
4th: $10,840
5th: $8,130
6th: $6,775
7th: $5,420
8th: $4,065
9th: $3,049
10th-12th: $2,710
13th-15th: $2,371
16th: Craig Feldman – $2,033
17th: Barry Pevner – $2,033
18th: Joshua Cranfill – $2,033