Day 1F Ends with Harry Lodge Leading 23 Survivors

Day 1F comes to an end with Harry Lodge (pictured) as the chipleader with 1,060,000 in chips. Here are the official chip counts for the 23 players who survived Day 1F:

1.  Harry Lodge  –  1,060,000
2.  Miklos Zsuffa  –  854,000
3.  Albert Ng  –  781,000
4.  Terry Woodruff  –  641,000
5.  Chad Awerbuch  –  594,000
6.  Kevin Kwan  –  576,000
7.  Chris Stanfield  –  576,000
8.  Adam Wilkinson  –  455,000
9.  Kunal Patni  –  447,000
10.  Gianfranco Giordano  –  347,000
11.  Stuart Taylor  –  325,000
12.  Ali Zihni  –  314,000
13.  Jonathan Lawson  –  257,000
14.  Daniel Jones  –  231,000
15.  Bruce Kramer  –  219,000
16.  Lee Sommers  –  209,000
17.  Marius Kudzmanas  –  198,000
18.  Kelley Slay  –  187,000
19.  Scott Vetter  –  182,000
20.  Luke Boynton  –  162,000
21.  Min Yoo  –  139,000
22.  Brian Kearney  –  106,000
23.  Leonardo Marques  –  97,000

And here are the 33 players who were eliminated, but finished in the money today:

24th:  David Kluchman  –  $1,200
25th:  Luis Duarte  –  $1,200
26th:  Carlos Villareal  –  $1,200
27th:  Lawrence Paden  –  $1,200
28th:  Bryden Baxter  –  $1,200
29th:  Neil Woolfrey  –  $1,200
30th:  Olivia Smith  –  $1,200
31st:  Troy Gabaldon  –  $1,200
32nd:  Howard O’Leary  –  $1,200
33rd:  Ted Karidis  –  $1,200
34th:  Doug Clark  –  $1,200
35th:  Daniel Smiljkovic  –  $1,200
36th:  Michael Kamenjarin  –  $1,200
37th:  Adrian Naggy  –  $1,200
38th:  Dale Tarzia  –  $1,200
39th:  Laurie Swaney  –  $900
40th:  Adam White  –  $900
41st:  Gerald Trass  –  $900
42nd:  Ronald Diorio  –  $900
43rd:  Mark Williamson  –  $900
44th:  Andreas Van de Venne  –  $900
45th:  Patrick McKee  –  $900
46th:  Mike Traficante  –  $900
47th:  Adi Ben Ami  –  $900
48th:  Eric Penner  –  $900
49th:  Ryan Belk  –  $900
50th:  Robert Altman  –  $900
51st:  Yuri Ishida  –  $900
52nd:  Qing Liu  –  $900
53rd:  Bart Luyckx  –  $900
54th:  Daniel Nguyen  –  $900
55th:  Ian Bott  –  $900
56th:  David Anderson  –  $900

With 447 entries today, the total field size for the Zynga Poker WPT500 Las Vegas is 1,618 entries, and 88 players have advanced to Day 2 so far. The total field should easily surpass 2,000 entries tomorrow, which means the prizepool will be worth more than $1 million. With two more flights on Sunday, it will be much more than $1 million.

Day 1F ended with 8:12 remaining in Level 19, with blinds at 4,000-8,000 and a big-blind ante of 8,000. When Day 2 begins, the blinds will roll back to the earliest finish of all nine starting flights; which is currently about 14 minutes remaining with blinds at 4,000-8,000, and a big-blind ante of 8,000.

Day 1G begins tomorrow (Saturday) at 11:00 am, with unlimited re-entries until registration closes around 3:30 pm. On Sunday, there will be two turbo flights, with the same blind structure, but with levels that are half as long.

Day 2 begins Monday, July 2nd, at 1:00 pm. Return to WPT.com for continuing coverage of the Zynga Poker WPT500 Las Vegas.