Kirk Banks Leads As Money Bubble Approaches in Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Welcome to Day 2 of Event #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em where Kirk Banks will begin play as the chip leader with 179,100. Banks leads a returning field of 236 players and with 200 players set to get paid the money bubble will be one of the first order of business for the day.
There were 1,330 entries on Day 1 generating a prize pool of $2,380,050. A min-cash for those surviving the bubble will be worth $2,249 with the eventual winner set to receive $319,580 along with a prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.
Some of the notables still in the hunt include Chris Ferguson (26,500), Barry Greenstein (11,500), bestselling writer Maria Konnikova (88,200), Aaron Massey (97,000), 2013 Main Event runner-up Jay Farber (52,500), Maria Ho (8,900), Reiner Kempe (16,000), Jake Schwartz (57,900), Ryan Laplante (77,000), and November Niner Eoghan O'Dea (91,200).
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Cards will be in the air at 12 p.m. with a scheduled 10 levels of play. There will be a 15-minute break every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after the day’s sixth level (≈ 6:30 p.m.).
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action from the felt as the 2018 World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino continues.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 507 | 1 | Kelly Minkin | United States | 22,400 | 22 |
| Amazon | 507 | 2 | Amit Makhija | United States | 14,400 | 14 |
| Amazon | 507 | 3 | Tyler Joyner | United States | 14,500 | 15 |
| Amazon | 507 | 4 | John Beckham | United States | 49,200 | 49 |
| Amazon | 507 | 5 | Todd Ivens | United States | 44,100 | 44 |
| Amazon | 507 | 7 | Jonas Lauck | Germany | 44,700 | 45 |
| Amazon | 507 | 8 | Stephen King | United States | 38,100 | 38 |
| Amazon | 507 | 9 | Anna Antimony | United States | 73,300 | 73 |
| Amazon | 508 | 1 | Brian Grenia | United States | 27,500 | 28 |
| Amazon | 508 | 2 | Dino Pipitone | Canada | 13,300 | 13 |
| Amazon | 508 | 4 | Kenneth Fitzgerald | United States | 43,900 | 44 |
| Amazon | 508 | 5 | Michel Seawright | Canada | 16,100 | 16 |
| Amazon | 508 | 6 | Ryan Nebeker | United States | 66,500 | 67 |
| Amazon | 508 | 7 | Thomas Lacote | France | 50,200 | 50 |
| Amazon | 508 | 8 | Ben Lai | United States | 33,400 | 33 |
| Amazon | 508 | 9 | Brian Valentine | United States | 15,700 | 16 |
| Amazon | 509 | 1 | Robert Kuhn | United States | 94,000 | 94 |
| Amazon | 509 | 3 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 25,200 | 25 |
| Amazon | 509 | 4 | Steven Warburton | United Kingdom | 58,300 | 58 |
| Amazon | 509 | 5 | Mikiyo Aoki | United States | 35,300 | 35 |
| Amazon | 509 | 6 | Takashi Ogura | Japan | 10,400 | 10 |
| Amazon | 509 | 7 | Emrah Cakmak | France | 31,400 | 31 |
| Amazon | 509 | 8 | Maria Ho | United States | 8,900 | 9 |
| Amazon | 509 | 9 | Jack Duong | United States | 33,000 | 33 |
| Amazon | 510 | 1 | Mathew Moore | United States | 72,700 | 73 |
| Amazon | 510 | 2 | John Goduco | United States | 9,500 | 10 |
| Amazon | 510 | 3 | Eric Semel | United States | 34,000 | 34 |
| Amazon | 510 | 4 | Peter Vitantonio | United States | 57,100 | 57 |
| Amazon | 510 | 5 | Yan Shing Tsang | Hong Kong | 64,900 | 65 |
| Amazon | 510 | 6 | Alejandro Terranova | United States | 9,800 | 10 |
| Amazon | 510 | 7 | Christian Pham | United States | 51,000 | 51 |
| Amazon | 510 | 9 | Michael Finstein | United States | 51,600 | 52 |
| Amazon | 511 | 1 | James Moore | United States | 69,400 | 69 |
| Amazon | 511 | 2 | Valon Gruda | Canada | 29,600 | 30 |
| Amazon | 511 | 3 | Jorge Beltran | United States | 46,100 | 46 |
| Amazon | 511 | 4 | Thomas Hall | United Kingdom | 16,400 | 16 |
| Amazon | 511 | 5 | James Owens | United States | 62,100 | 62 |
| Amazon | 511 | 6 | Evan Cutler | United States | 5,100 | 5 |
| Amazon | 511 | 7 | Ken Kao | United States | 10,500 | 11 |
| Amazon | 511 | 8 | Javier Gonzalez | United States | 50,500 | 51 |
| Amazon | 511 | 9 | Vincent Huang | Australia | 66,000 | 66 |
| Amazon | 512 | 1 | DID NOT REPORT 1 | United States | 111,000 | 111 |
| Amazon | 512 | 2 | Quang Ngo | United States | 64,000 | 64 |
| Amazon | 512 | 3 | David Lewis | United States | 8,400 | 8 |
| Amazon | 512 | 4 | Joseph Elpayaa | United States | 28,300 | 28 |
| Amazon | 512 | 5 | Thomas Kurtz | United States | 33,300 | 33 |
| Amazon | 512 | 6 | Tonio Roder | Germany | 32,700 | 33 |
| Amazon | 512 | 7 | John Tilton | United States | 44,100 | 44 |
| Amazon | 512 | 8 | Aaron Massey | United States | 97,000 | 97 |
| Amazon | 512 | 9 | Raymond Eifler | United States | 34,000 | 34 |
| Amazon | 513 | 1 | Gary Lew | United States | 107,100 | 107 |
| Amazon | 513 | 2 | Barry Greenstein | United States | 11,500 | 12 |
| Amazon | 513 | 3 | Alexandre Sako | Brazil | 17,100 | 17 |
| Amazon | 513 | 4 | Donald Landwirth | United States | 22,800 | 23 |
| Amazon | 513 | 5 | Joseph Couden | United States | 155,900 | 156 |
| Amazon | 513 | 6 | Chung Ho | United States | 18,800 | 19 |
| Amazon | 513 | 7 | Jakob Miegel | Germany | 75,000 | 75 |
| Amazon | 513 | 8 | Matt Widdoes | United States | 19,700 | 20 |
| Amazon | 513 | 9 | Zizheng Huang | China | 45,300 | 45 |
| Amazon | 514 | 1 | Arturo Avendano | United States | 42,800 | 43 |
| Amazon | 514 | 2 | Rafael Lebron | United States | 23,800 | 24 |
| Amazon | 514 | 3 | Asi Moshe | Israel | 86,600 | 87 |
| Amazon | 514 | 4 | James Taylor | Canada | 11,700 | 12 |
| Amazon | 514 | 5 | Champie Douglas | United States | 64,900 | 65 |
| Amazon | 514 | 6 | Shaan Yuhas | United States | 54,700 | 55 |
| Amazon | 514 | 7 | David Olson | United States | 44,500 | 45 |
| Amazon | 514 | 8 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 52,000 | 52 |
| Amazon | 514 | 9 | Kent Roman | United States | 71,100 | 71 |
| Amazon | 515 | 1 | Brian Brunner | United States | 78,500 | 79 |
| Amazon | 515 | 2 | Geoffrey Lavinson | United States | 62,700 | 63 |
| Amazon | 515 | 3 | Michael Rocco | United States | 160,000 | 160 |
| Amazon | 515 | 4 | Reynante Jao | United States | 33,700 | 34 |
| Amazon | 515 | 5 | Eric Baldwin | United States | 58,700 | 59 |
| Amazon | 515 | 6 | Dustin Born | Canada | 28,300 | 28 |
| Amazon | 515 | 7 | Mario Deltoro | United States | 13,200 | 13 |
| Amazon | 515 | 8 | Loren Hesz | United States | 61,500 | 62 |
| Amazon | 515 | 9 | Walter Treccarichi | Italy | 77,300 | 77 |
| Amazon | 516 | 1 | Andrew Teng | United Kingdom | 18,600 | 19 |
| Amazon | 516 | 2 | Pedro Cabeca | Portugal | 36,500 | 37 |
| Amazon | 516 | 3 | Igor Zektser | United States | 8,500 | 9 |
| Amazon | 516 | 4 | Ebrahim Zaver | United States | 9,200 | 9 |
| Amazon | 516 | 5 | Joseph Labiosa | United States | 62,300 | 62 |
| Amazon | 516 | 7 | Sebastien Comel | France | 20,800 | 21 |
| Amazon | 516 | 8 | Arin Youssefian | United States | 59,400 | 59 |
| Amazon | 516 | 9 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 16,000 | 16 |
| Amazon | 517 | 1 | Stephane Borrero | United States | 45,700 | 46 |
| Amazon | 517 | 2 | JC Tran | United States | 108,900 | 109 |
| Amazon | 517 | 3 | Renato Nomura | Japan | 107,300 | 107 |
| Amazon | 517 | 4 | Alex Maturi | United States | 13,200 | 13 |
| Amazon | 517 | 5 | Christopher Kusha | United States | 41,500 | 42 |
| Amazon | 517 | 7 | John Corr | Australia | 25,300 | 25 |
| Amazon | 517 | 8 | Jacob Rubin | United States | 22,700 | 23 |
| Amazon | 517 | 9 | Travis Atwood | United States | 40,400 | 40 |
| Amazon | 518 | 1 | John White | United States | 27,200 | 27 |
| Amazon | 518 | 2 | Nate Bandy | United States | 20,500 | 21 |
| Amazon | 518 | 3 | Mark Schluter | United States | 37,600 | 38 |
| Amazon | 518 | 4 | Lee Guzovsky | United States | 79,900 | 80 |
| Amazon | 518 | 5 | Nan Li | United States | 60,900 | 61 |
| Amazon | 518 | 6 | Brandon Wong | United States | 33,900 | 34 |
| Amazon | 518 | 7 | Stephen Cartner | Canada | 79,000 | 79 |
| Amazon | 518 | 8 | Kevin Currey | United States | 15,800 | 16 |
| Amazon | 518 | 9 | Shivanraif Abdine | Australia | 27,200 | 27 |
| Amazon | 519 | 1 | Patrick Mitchell | United States | 14,500 | 15 |
| Amazon | 519 | 2 | Ardit Kurshumi | United States | 13,000 | 13 |
| Amazon | 519 | 3 | Viliyan Petleshkov | Bulgaria | 53,300 | 53 |
| Amazon | 519 | 4 | Todd Witteles | United States | 45,000 | 45 |
| Amazon | 519 | 5 | Kenneth Lowe | United States | 26,500 | 27 |
| Amazon | 519 | 6 | Leonard Tanase | Canada | 35,400 | 35 |
| Amazon | 519 | 7 | Jeffrey Dreyer | United States | 25,800 | 26 |
| Amazon | 519 | 8 | Dorey Donald | United States | 9,000 | 9 |
| Amazon | 519 | 9 | Conor Beresford | United Kingdom | 25,300 | 25 |
| Amazon | 520 | 1 | Hang Li | China | 29,600 | 30 |
| Amazon | 520 | 2 | Peter Lewis | United States | 18,200 | 18 |
| Amazon | 520 | 3 | Duy Ho | United States | 158,500 | 159 |
| Amazon | 520 | 4 | Brandon Hall | United States | 33,800 | 34 |
| Amazon | 520 | 5 | Andy Frankenberger | United States | 80,300 | 80 |
| Amazon | 520 | 6 | Marc Rivera | Philippines | 27,800 | 28 |
| Amazon | 520 | 7 | Christian Burger | United States | 75,000 | 75 |
| Amazon | 520 | 8 | Vinicius Leal | United States | 36,100 | 36 |
| Amazon | 520 | 9 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 26,500 | 27 |
| Amazon | 521 | 1 | Leland Ruegsegger | United States | 34,500 | 35 |
| Amazon | 521 | 2 | Pete Males | United States | 55,500 | 56 |
| Amazon | 521 | 3 | Zachary Humphrey | United States | 32,100 | 32 |
| Amazon | 521 | 4 | Cory Mew | United States | 18,100 | 18 |
| Amazon | 521 | 5 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 31,800 | 32 |
| Amazon | 521 | 6 | Michael Falk | United States | 59,200 | 59 |
| Amazon | 521 | 7 | Martin Ward | Austria | 33,000 | 33 |
| Amazon | 521 | 8 | Matthew Sahagian | United States | 13,900 | 14 |
| Amazon | 521 | 9 | Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 48,300 | 48 |
| Amazon | 522 | 1 | Kevin Killeen | Ireland | 19,600 | 20 |
| Amazon | 522 | 2 | Kiyoung Kim | South Korea | 21,000 | 21 |
| Amazon | 522 | 3 | Michael Mcgrath | United States | 28,100 | 28 |
| Amazon | 522 | 4 | Brock Wilson | United States | 26,000 | 26 |
| Amazon | 522 | 5 | Gene Harrill | United States | 113,300 | 113 |
| Amazon | 522 | 6 | Yang Zhang | China | 44,000 | 44 |
| Amazon | 522 | 7 | Kirk Banks | United States | 179,100 | 179 |
| Amazon | 522 | 8 | Lee Watkinson | United States | 27,200 | 27 |
| Amazon | 522 | 9 | Chris Wallace | United States | 43,500 | 44 |
| Amazon | 523 | 1 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 101,500 | 102 |
| Amazon | 523 | 2 | Kyle Hartree | Canada | 16,500 | 17 |
| Amazon | 523 | 3 | Masayuki Nagata | Japan | 39,800 | 40 |
| Amazon | 523 | 4 | Spencer Champlin | United States | 65,500 | 66 |
| Amazon | 523 | 5 | Nicholas Pupillo | United States | 71,200 | 71 |
| Amazon | 523 | 6 | Philippe Landy | France | 41,100 | 41 |
| Amazon | 523 | 7 | Garabed Uluhogian | United States | 7,800 | 8 |
| Amazon | 523 | 8 | Sean Shah | United States | 33,400 | 33 |
| Amazon | 523 | 9 | Anatoly Filatov | United States | 129,000 | 129 |
| Amazon | 524 | 1 | Deric Fitzgerald | United States | 19,300 | 19 |
| Amazon | 524 | 2 | Xavier Cheyer | Canada | 14,800 | 15 |
| Amazon | 524 | 3 | John Strzemp | United States | 40,800 | 41 |
| Amazon | 524 | 4 | Gilsoo Kim | United States | 78,900 | 79 |
| Amazon | 524 | 5 | Phachara Wongwichit | Australia | 25,600 | 26 |
| Amazon | 524 | 6 | Chun-Wai Lo | Canada | 41,000 | 41 |
| Amazon | 524 | 7 | Dien Le | United States | 33,600 | 34 |
| Amazon | 524 | 8 | Gil Thierry | United Kingdom | 45,200 | 45 |
| Amazon | 524 | 9 | Aditya Agarwal | India | 71,800 | 72 |
| Amazon | 525 | 1 | Richard Foydl | United States | 33,800 | 34 |
| Amazon | 525 | 2 | Michael Morgan | United States | 39,800 | 40 |
| Amazon | 525 | 3 | Salah Nimer | United States | 26,800 | 27 |
| Amazon | 525 | 5 | Michael Taylor | United States | 32,700 | 33 |
| Amazon | 525 | 6 | Thomas Kornechuk | United States | 58,500 | 59 |
| Amazon | 525 | 7 | Brett Bader | United States | 26,200 | 26 |
| Amazon | 525 | 8 | Ian Steinman | United States | 22,000 | 22 |
| Amazon | 525 | 9 | Baitai Li | United States | 125,800 | 126 |
| Amazon | 526 | 1 | Douglas Mihal | United States | 7,900 | 8 |
| Amazon | 526 | 2 | Stephen Song | United States | 124,600 | 125 |
| Amazon | 526 | 3 | Katie Lindsay | United States | 18,100 | 18 |
| Amazon | 526 | 4 | Panayote Vilandos | United States | 24,700 | 25 |
| Amazon | 526 | 5 | Ben Keeline | United States | 16,500 | 17 |
| Amazon | 526 | 6 | Daniel Tang | United Kingdom | 60,200 | 60 |
| Amazon | 526 | 7 | Michael Larson | United States | 11,500 | 12 |
| Amazon | 526 | 8 | Paul Silverstein | United States | 10,500 | 11 |
| Amazon | 526 | 9 | Tommy Nguyen | Canada | 71,100 | 71 |
| Amazon | 527 | 1 | Robert Georato | United States | 86,400 | 86 |
| Amazon | 527 | 2 | Charles Teplitz | United States | 58,600 | 59 |
| Amazon | 527 | 3 | Jesse Yaginuma | United States | 50,200 | 50 |
| Amazon | 527 | 4 | Todd Zuccarino | United States | 34,100 | 34 |
| Amazon | 527 | 5 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 48,600 | 49 |
| Amazon | 527 | 6 | Benoit Coulombe | Canada | 30,500 | 31 |
| Amazon | 527 | 7 | Ken Norton | United States | 113,400 | 113 |
| Amazon | 527 | 8 | Jake Schwartz | United States | 57,900 | 58 |
| Amazon | 527 | 9 | Daniel Neilson | Australia | 24,700 | 25 |
| Amazon | 528 | 1 | Ryan Goindoo | Trinidad and Tobago | 10,500 | 11 |
| Amazon | 528 | 2 | Joseph Marchal | United States | 15,100 | 15 |
| Amazon | 528 | 3 | Jason Kang | United States | 59,600 | 60 |
| Amazon | 528 | 4 | Samuel Roussy-Majeau | Canada | 54,600 | 55 |
| Amazon | 528 | 5 | Robert Hoff | Canada | 10,500 | 11 |
| Amazon | 528 | 6 | Jiandong Xu | United States | 27,700 | 28 |
| Amazon | 528 | 7 | Brett Murray | United States | 36,100 | 36 |
| Amazon | 528 | 8 | Brett Loose | United States | 33,900 | 34 |
| Amazon | 528 | 9 | David Fuss | United States | 53,800 | 54 |
| Amazon | 529 | 1 | William Harper | Canada | 26,400 | 26 |
| Amazon | 529 | 2 | Alexis Fleur | France | 22,600 | 23 |
| Amazon | 529 | 3 | Don Polyak | United States | 29,300 | 29 |
| Amazon | 529 | 4 | James Duncan | United States | 44,900 | 45 |
| Amazon | 529 | 5 | Damien Le Goff | United Kingdom | 65,700 | 66 |
| Amazon | 529 | 6 | Jaroslaw Waskow | Canada | 32,100 | 32 |
| Amazon | 529 | 7 | Roland Israelashvili | United States | 30,700 | 31 |
| Amazon | 529 | 8 | Stephen Graner | United States | 3,500 | 4 |
| Amazon | 529 | 9 | Maria Konnikova | United States | 88,200 | 88 |
| Amazon | 530 | 1 | Kazuki Ikeuchi | Japan | 30,600 | 31 |
| Amazon | 530 | 2 | Jason Wheeler | United States | 105,700 | 106 |
| Amazon | 530 | 3 | Jason Guarinello | United States | 28,000 | 28 |
| Amazon | 530 | 4 | Ashraf Saadah | United States | 42,500 | 43 |
| Amazon | 530 | 5 | Brett Feder | United States | 11,700 | 12 |
| Amazon | 530 | 6 | Stephen Moore | United States | 9,700 | 10 |
| Amazon | 530 | 7 | Aleksandr Krolik | United States | 27,800 | 28 |
| Amazon | 530 | 8 | Raul Oliveira | Brazil | 33,200 | 33 |
| Amazon | 530 | 9 | Craig Mason | United States | 28,500 | 29 |
| Amazon | 531 | 1 | David Sovulewski | United States | 70,500 | 71 |
| Amazon | 531 | 2 | Jay Farber | United States | 52,500 | 53 |
| Amazon | 531 | 3 | Charles Roosa | United States | 1 | 0 |
| Amazon | 531 | 4 | Dustin Lee | United States | 12,600 | 13 |
| Amazon | 531 | 5 | Jiri Horak | Czech Republic | 48,700 | 49 |
| Amazon | 531 | 6 | David Israelite | United States | 38,000 | 38 |
| Amazon | 531 | 7 | Edwin Biber | United Kingdom | 27,700 | 28 |
| Amazon | 531 | 8 | Alex Keating | United States | 12,100 | 12 |
| Amazon | 531 | 9 | Simon Samokovski | United States | 60,000 | 60 |
| Amazon | 533 | 1 | Mike Sexton | United States | 18,900 | 19 |
| Amazon | 533 | 2 | Michael Meyer | United States | 32,900 | 33 |
| Amazon | 533 | 3 | Mark Toulouse | Canada | 28,100 | 28 |
| Amazon | 533 | 4 | Michael Page | United States | 26,900 | 27 |
| Amazon | 533 | 5 | Eduardo Mauad | Brazil | 12,000 | 12 |
| Amazon | 533 | 6 | Ryan Laplante | United States | 77,000 | 77 |
| Amazon | 533 | 7 | Abraham Benhamron | United States | 12,200 | 12 |
| Amazon | 533 | 8 | Robbie Beck | United States | 28,000 | 28 |
| Amazon | 533 | 9 | Artur Koren | Austria | 15,100 | 15 |
| Amazon | 534 | 1 | Svetlana Gromenkova | United States | 28,000 | 28 |
| Amazon | 534 | 2 | Dalton Brinker | United States | 102,300 | 102 |
| Amazon | 534 | 3 | Eoghan O'Dea | Ireland | 91,200 | 91 |
| Amazon | 534 | 4 | Michael Goldberg | United States | 22,400 | 22 |
| Amazon | 534 | 5 | Herb Montalbano | United States | 35,500 | 36 |
| Amazon | 534 | 6 | Scott Baumstein | United States | 72,900 | 73 |
| Amazon | 534 | 7 | Kenneth Adams | United States | 26,500 | 27 |
| Amazon | 534 | 8 | Franklin Lacava | United States | 17,000 | 17 |
| Amazon | 534 | 9 | Tim Bullard | United States | 40,500 | 41 |