Day 2 Ends with Adrian Sorel State Leading ~400 Survivors

Photo:  Chipleader Adrian Sorel State

Level 15 came to an end, and the final 400 players or so bagged up their chips for Day 3. The chipleader is Adrian Sorel State, who bagged up 2,400,000 (160 big blinds).

The full list of official chip counts will be posted late tonight, but in the meantime, here is a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

1.  Adrian Sorel State  –  2,400,000  (160 bb)
2.  Andriy Lyubovetskiy  –  2,200,000  (147 bb)
3.  Lucas Foster  –  2,135,000  (142 bb)
4.  Isaac Kempton  –  2,100,000  (140 bb)
5.  Adam Hendrix  –  2,055,000  (137 bb)
6.  Soheb Porbandarwala  –  2,035,000  (136 bb)

The final 370 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $17,400 each, so they’ll be hitting the Money Bubble fairly early on Day 3. Here is the full list of payouts they’re playing for:

1st:  $4,146,400*
2nd:  $2,830,000
3rd:  $2,095,000
4th:  $1,608,000
5th:  $1,301,000
6th:  $1,001,050
7th:  $704,000
8th:  $547,000
9th-10th:  $429,000
11th-12th:  $338,500
13th-14th:  $269,900
15th-16th:  $217,100
17th-20th:  $176,200
21st-24th:  $144,300
25th-32nd:  $119,300
33rd-40th:  $99,600
41st-48th:  $83,900
49th-56th:  $71,400
57th-64th:  $61,350
65th-72nd:  $53,200
73rd-80th:  $46,650
81st-88th:  $41,250
89th-104th:  $36,500
105th-120th:  $32,650
121st-136th:  $29,450
137th-152nd:  $26,900
153rd-168th:  $24,800
169th-184th:  $23,100
185th-208th:  $21,750
209th-232nd:  $20,700
233rd-264th:  $19,900
265th-296th:  $19,150
297th-328th:  $18,450
329th-349th:  $17,750
350th-370th:  $17,400

Day 3 begins tomorrow at 12:00 noon PST, and the schedule says they will be playing another five 90-minute levels with no dinner break. (That schedule could change at the Tournament Director’s discretion.)

The Day 3 seat draw should be released by the casino later tonight, and we’ll post it here in the WPT Live Updates. Stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Photo:  WPT Anchor Lynn Gilmartin finished with 930,000 (62 big blinds) and an excellent shot at her first WPT cash.

* First prize includes the winner’s $10,400 seat into the 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.