Main Event Day 1C: Mike Laufer Continues to Lead; Farid Jattin Chasing

$1,700 DSPS Main Event (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante
Day 1C Entries:  140

Farid Jattin

The dinner break ended, and players returned to action with six more levels left in their day. The entry count moved to 140, and a few more people are sliding up to the registration desk.

Mike Laufer continues to lead the field with 199,000 but poker pro Farid Jattin is not far behind with 177,000. Laufer scored big by winning the opening event of the 2021 RRPO series and Jattin did the same thing a few months later by capturing the Event 1 title at the 2022 LHPO series.

Big stacks and random counts:

Mike Laufer – 199,000 (199 bb)
Farid Jattin – 177,000 (177 bb)
Matthew Zarcadoolas – 176,500 (177 bb)
Kenna James – 121,500 (122 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 110,000 (110 bb)
Todd Rosenthal – 104,000 (104 bb)
Ido Ashkenazi – 90,000 (90 bb)
Willie Wiggins – 90,000 (90 bb)
Richard Rice – 84,500 (85 bb)
Mike Chiappetta – 84,500 (85 bb)
Michael Tait – 78,500 (79 bb)
David Nathaniel – 72,000 (72 bb)
Solange Lucas – 54,500 (55 bb)
Tom Schafer – 53,000 (53 bb)
Howard Feingold – 51,000 (51 bb)
Michael Graffeo – 48,000 (48 bb)
Steve Bennett – 35,500 (36 bb)