Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2014 World Series of Poker

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em

Day 2 Completed

06-02-2014 02:26 UTC-8

Day 2 of the 2014 Millionaire Maker Event #8 ends with two chip leaders

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The second day of the record-breaking Millionaire Maker of the World Series Of Poker 2014 with staggering 7,977 entries saw 1,466 players returning to their seats and after nine levels of one hour each, only 178 would bag up chips. Both Jonathan Dimmig and Yuliyan Kolev claimed 632,000 in chips and slightly edged out Bart Lybaert, who finished with 615,000 in third place.

After the first two levels of play, almost 600 players had already joined the rail and it took just another 30 minutes until the bubble was reached. The hand for hand mode lasted only one hand and two players were eliminated at once and ended up sharing the min cash of $2,692. Anthony Harb, who won a golden bracelet in a $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Event at the WSOP 2009, had his pocket kings cracked by the quad fives of Ping Liu and the jacks of Jeff Dumas got flushed by Hans Winzeler.

Within half an hour 100 players headed to the payout desk and the action continued fast and furious. We lost such familiar faces as Jamie Kerstetter, Maria Jo, Loni Harwood, Mike Sexton, Giacomo Fundaro and Matt Marafioti. Matt Glantz ran with queens into aces, Humberto Brenes scored the fourth in-the-money finish of the 2014 Series but eventually lost the flip with ace king against the of Chris DeMaci. The same also applied for Matthias de Meulder versus Yuliyan Kolev and in the very last level, Tony Gregg tried to bluff but ran into the aces of Sean Prendiville.

Day 3 resumes at 1 p.m. Vegas time and all remaining players have $7,430 guaranteed, level 19 restarts with blinds at 4,000-8,000 / ante 1,000 and an average of 201,666 chips. Hot on the heels of the three close chip leaders are Andrew Oh (593,000), Sean Prendiville (520,000), James Mackey (387,000) and Andrew Teng (351,000). Other notables include start-of-the-day chip leader Andrew Seidman (229,000), John Racener (218,000), Allan Kessler (183,000), Rhys Jones (163,000) and Greg Mueller (107,000). Tune back into the PokerNews live coverage as we bring you all the key hands and determine the winner of yet another golden bracelet as well as the stunning first place payout of $1,319,587.

Tags: Allen Kessler Andrew Oh Andrew Seidman Andrew Teng Anthony Harb Bart Lybaert Chris DeMaci Christophe de Meulder Giacomo Fundaro Greg Mueller Hans Winzeler Humberto Brenes James Mackey John Racener Loni Harwood Matt Sexton Matthias De Meulder Sean Prendiville Yuliyan Kolev

06-02-2014 01:53 UTC-8

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

[user272102]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Yuliyan Kolev	632,000

Jonathan Dimmig	632,000

Bart Lybaert	615,000
Andrew Oh	593,000
Ron Jenkins	584,000
Steven Moseley	568,000 228,000	228,000
Sean Prendiville	520,000
Carmen Evola	425,000 425,000	425,000
Nathaniel Falber	417,000 417,000	417,000
Christoph Csik	402,000 402,000	402,000
Chris DeMaci	396,000 201,000	201,000
David Fong	393,000 -67,000	-67,000
Daniel Jones	388,000 30,000	30,000
James Mackey	387,000 27,000	27,000

Christopher Gaddi	380,000 380,000	380,000
Ronald Mcginnity	378,000 378,000	378,000
Curt Kohlberg	372,000
Tleuzhan Jumakov	367,000 367,000	367,000
Idris Gencoglu	354,000
Andrew Teng	351,000 -9,000	-9,000
Bassel Assi	342,000 342,000	342,000
Stewart Newman	340,000 340,000	340,000
Griffin Paul	336,000 336,000	336,000
Thomas Couture	333,000 333,000	333,000
Diane Roznik	329,000 296,000	296,000

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06-02-2014 01:52 UTC-8

Some End of Day Chip Counts

Matthew Pitt

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Full chip counts will appear overnight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bart Lybaert	615,000
Andrew Oh	593,000 85,000	85,000
Ron Jenkins	584,000 584,000	584,000
Sean Prendiville	520,000
Roland McGinnity	378,000 378,000	378,000
Curt Kohlberg	372,000 -43,000	-43,000
Daniel Jones	358,000 358,000	358,000
Idris Gencoglu	354,000
Ryan Jones	205,000
Matt Salsberg	163,000 23,000	23,000
Rhys Jones	163,000 -17,000	-17,000
Matt Brady	45,000 -75,000	-75,000

06-02-2014 01:50 UTC-8

Busted During Level 18

Matthew Pitt

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

Final list of Day 2 casualties.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Baybayan	Busted
Tuong Le	Busted
Raymond Padgett	Busted
Jonathan Varela	Busted
Michael Lavoie	Busted
Randy Lew	Busted
Erle Mankin	Busted
Harshit Patel	Busted
Michael Goetsch	Busted
Louis Lynch	Busted
Theo Tran	Busted
Taylor Vanmeer	Busted
Julie Dang	Busted
Dan O'Brien	Busted
Farid Jattin	Busted
Ian Bey	Busted
Matthew Donaldson	Busted
Alexander Kuzmin	Busted

06-02-2014 01:41 UTC-8

Play Concludes For The Day

[user272102]

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

All tables have finished their five hands and tables are in the process of completing the bag and tag. We'll have some chip counts of remaining notable players shortly.

06-02-2014 01:22 UTC-8

Remember The Fallen

Matthew Pitt

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

This list of players narrowly missed out on a Day 3 appearance.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phong Nguyen	Busted
Andrew Becker	Busted
Brian Park	Busted
Khiem Nguyen	Busted
Jeremy Tucker	Busted
Chris Heid	Busted
Jennifer Kelly	Busted
Karthik Ramakrishnan	Busted
Moe Parvan	Busted
Dimitri Holdeew	Busted
Daniel Engels	Busted
Dana Forden	Busted
Louis Cohen	Busted

06-02-2014 01:22 UTC-8

Clock Stopped, Five More Hands

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

The clock has been stopped with ten minutes left in level 18 and we will be playing five more hands. During that time, the chip leader of each table will also buy off the T-500 chips. The screens show 191 players left.

06-02-2014 01:20 UTC-8

Trips for Polychronopoulos

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 500 ante

We only arrived on the turn and Athanasios Polychronopoulos bet 13,500, his opponent raised to 28,000. Polychronopoulos moved all in and the opponent asked for how much more it would be. The dealer took 28,000 from both into the pot and then counted carefully, it was another 64,000 to call.

The call came eventually and the opponent showed but he ran into the of the US boy. The river bricked and just before the end of the day, Polychronopoulos doubled up.