Day 2 Ends with Gege Gocaj Leading the Final 17 Players

Photo:  Chipleader Gege Gocaj will begin Day with 3,100,000 (155 big blinds).

Day 2 of the WPT bestbet Scramble began with 125 players remaining from the total field of 365 entries, and after nine levels of play over 13 hours, there were 17 players remaining to bag up chips for Day 3, which begins tomorrow (Monday) at 12:00 noon.

Here is the seat draw for the start of Day 3, along with official chip counts:

TABLE 56
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  Qi You  –  260,000  (13 bb)
Seat 3.  Toby Boas  –  1,025,000  (51 bb)
Seat 4.  Gege Gocaj  –  3,100,000  (155 bb)
Seat 5.  Levi Carden  –  685,000  (34 bb)
Seat 6.  Frederic Normand  –  1,885,000  (94 bb)
Seat 7.  
Seat 8.  

TABLE 57
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  Tom Wheaton  –  1,070,000  (54 bb)
Seat 3.  Ethan Cahn  –  410,000  (21 bb)
Seat 4.  Manuel Fritz  –  260,000  (13 bb)
Seat 5.  Steven Rash  –  430,000  (22 bb)
Seat 6.  Farhad Jamasi  –  545,000  (27 bb)
Seat 7.  
Seat 8.  Caleb Larsen  –  1,985,000  (99 bb)

TABLE 64
Seat 1.  Heng Zhang  –  1,680,000  (84 bb)
Seat 2.  Chad Gardner  –  540,000  (27 bb)
Seat 3.  Ian O’Hara  –  1,150,000  (58 bb)
Seat 4.  Michael Frierson  –  1,085,000  (54 bb)
Seat 5.  
Seat 6.  Carlos Guerrero  –  380,000  (19 bb)
Seat 7.  Brian Senie  –  1,730,000  (87 bb)
Seat 8.  

And here are the remaining payouts they’re playing for:

1st:  $351,650*
2nd:  $226,700
3rd:  $166,800
4th:  $123,900
5th:  $92,900
6th:  $70,400
7th:  $53,800
8th:  $41,500
9th-10th:  $32,300
11th-12th:  $26,000
13th-14th:  $21,300
15th-16th:  $17,700
17th:  $15,000

Day 3 begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon, so stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT bestbet Scramble.

* First-place prize amount includes the winner’s $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.