Day 2 Ends with Nick Funaro Leading the Final 18 Players

Photo:  Chipleader Nick Funaro

Day 2 of the WPT bestbet Scramble began with 124 players remaining from the total field of 361 entries, and after nine levels of play over 13 hours, there are 18 players remaining who bagged up chips for Day 3, which begins tomorrow (Monday) at 12:00 noon EST.

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

TABLE 56
Seat 1.  Ray Leone  –  1,095,000  (55 bb)
Seat 2.  
Seat 3.  Frank Wyville  –  1,555,000  (78 bb)
Seat 4.  Tony Dunst  –  385,000  (19 bb)
Seat 5.  Yunkyu Song  –  830,000  (42 bb)
Seat 6.  
Seat 7.  Bryce McVay  –  480,000  (24 bb)
Seat 8.  Joe Jordan  –  2,050,000  (103 bb)

TABLE 57
Seat 1.  Nick Yunis  –  1,175,000  (59 bb)
Seat 2.  Alex Cruz  –  590,000  (30 bb)
Seat 3.  Eric Afriat  –  1,700,000  (85 bb)
Seat 4.  
Seat 5.  Josh Guindon  –  580,000  (29 bb)
Seat 6.  
Seat 7.  Dion Jagroo  –  505,000  (25 bb)
Seat 8.  Francis Anderson  –  1,350,000  (68 bb)

TABLE 64
Seat 1.  
Seat 2.  T.K. Miles  –  580,000  (29 bb)
Seat 3.  Joe McKeehen  –  490,000  (25 bb)
Seat 4.  Nick Funaro  –  2,250,000  (113 bb)
Seat 5.  
Seat 6.  Bobby Kennedy  –  530,000  (27 bb)
Seat 7.  Vimal Reddy  –  1,080,000  (54 bb)
Seat 8.  Thad McNulty  –  885,000  (44 bb)

And here are the remaining payouts at stake:

1st:  $347,850*
2nd:  $220,000
3rd:  $165,000
4th:  $123,000
5th:  $93,000
6th:  $71,000
7th:  $55,000
8th:  $42,500
9th-10th:  $33,500
11th-12th:  $25,500
13th-15th:  $20,500
16th-18th:  $16,800

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 amount includes the winner’s $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.