Noam Muallem Leads the 24 Survivors on Day 1O

Day 1O of WPT500 Los Angeles comes to a conclusion with the 486-entrant field reduced to the final 24 players with Noam Muallem (pictured) the chip leader with 1,191,000 in chips.

Today was the 15th starting flight of 16 and there were 486 total entries taking the total field size to 2,108 with 104 survivors heading into Day 2. The final 12.5% of each starting field finishes in the money, guaranteed at least $900 each, and the final 5% advance to Day 2.

Day 1O saw play end with 27:08 remaining in Level 23 with blinds at 10,000-20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000. When Day 2 begins, the blinds will roll back to the earliest finish of all the starting flights; currently being 3,000-6,000 with a 6,000-big blind ante.

Here are the official chip counts for the 24 survivors from Day 1O:

1. Noam Muallem – 1,191,000
2. Kamal Bilal – 934,000
3. Jaideep Sajwan – 819,000
4. Andrew Wall – 678,000
5. Nick Grippo – 612,000
6. Kevin Quan – 529,000
7. Mark Bryan – 499,000
8. Nancy Matson – 483,000
9. Thu Nguyen – 437,000
10. Huy Lam – 424,000
11. Gal Yifrach – 395,000
12. Wilson Chan – 373,000
13. Aaron Ho – 356,000
14. Andre Verardi – 296,000
15. Kevin Song – 232,000
16. Reid Robles – 226,000
17. Ming Li – 211,000
18. Andrew Chud – 208,000
19. Josh Marr – 187,000
20. Brian Hunkins – 157,000
21. Harpreet Padda – 157,000
22. Ngo Tran – 126,000
23. Xiaochuan Xie – 109,000
24. Kim Lam – 93,000

Here are the players eliminated in-the-money:

25th: Martin Tamaro – $1,200
26th: Daniel Thomas – $1,200
27th: Zeev Malkin – $1,200
28th: Osama Aweida – $1,200
29th: Handrianto Minderman – $1,200
30th: Scott Vener – $1,200
31st: Brian Podl – $1,200
32nd: Xuan Liu – $1,200
33rd: Bobby Sanoubane – $1,200
34th: Pavel Krapivin – $1,200
35th: Roy Chambers – $1,200
36th: Romik Vartzar – $1,200
37th: Mark Jun – $1,200
38th: Olamide Otti – $1,200
39th: Shawn Pilot – $1,200
40th: Conner Hulse – $1,200
41st: Shan Jing – $900
42nd: Gary Sewell – $900
43rd: Tyeson Manzano – $900
44th: Tae Kim – $900
45th: Tim Anders – $900
46th: Jodie Pompino – $900
47th: Alvin Yue – $900
48th: Jeff Platt – $900
49th: Tara Dunn – $900
50th: Syed Kadri – $900
51st: Alain Bautieres – $900
52nd: Bill Klein – $900
53rd: Kevin Gimble – $900
54th: Tuman Pham – $900
55th: Mackenzie Kraemer – $900
56th: Norman Garcia – $900
57th: Paul W. Lee – $900
58th: Robert Ross – $900
59th: Ekrem Bozkurt – $900
60th: David Khobyer – $900
61st: Mark Jeans – $900

Day 2 begins on Sunday, January 4, at 1 p.m. (PT) with the 2,310-entrant field seeing just 114 players return. Blinds will be rolled back to Level 18 (3,000-6,000 and a 6,000-big blind ante) and levels will be 40 minutes in duration until the final table of nine is reached.

Stay tuned to WPT.com for continuing coverage throughout the WPT500 Los Angeles from The Gardens Casino.

Photography by Jamie Thomson / PokerPhotoArchive

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