Sixteen players are still standing in Event #56 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament. Former #1 ranked Steve gboro780Gross (pictured), who won a bracelet last year in a $5,000 PLO Six-Max event, is in second place entering the tournament’s final day with a stack of 859,000, trailing Raymond Henson, who leads the way with 897,000.

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Gross, who will join us for the first ever Borgata PocketFives Openlive event in Atlantic City later this month as a bounty, won a sizable pot at the end of the day on Monday in which Guillaume Jenner and he were all-in with A-8 suited and queens, respectively, against the A-K of Henson. A king on the flop spelled doom for Jenner and Gross, but an eight on the turn handed Jenner the lead with trips. However, the roller coaster ended with a queen on the river, giving Gross a triple-up when he needed it most.

Henson won a pot worth 620,000 in chips after Seyed Fazelimoved all-in before the flop with 9-9, but ran into Henson’s K-K. Neither player hit a set and Henson catapulted his stack up to 970,000.

Event #56 will mark Gross’ fourth in the money finish at the WSOP this year and his highest finish since last year’s bracelet win. Gross needs about $150,000 to break $1 million in career WSOP scores, which is the equivalent of third place or better in this tournament. Online, he has $6.2 million in MTT winnings, the 14th largest total of any member of the PocketFives community.

Here are the 16 players remaining in the $1K NLHE event. The blinds stopped on Monday at 6,000-12,000-2,000:

1. Raymond Henson – 897,000
2. Steve gboro780Gross – 859,000
3. Richard Milne – 827,000
4. Andrew Egan – 731,000
5. Robert Merulla – 529,000
6. Michael Marckx – 510,000
7. Matt Salsberg – 494,000
8. Eric Shanks – 450,000
9. Viktor Skoldstedt – 402,000
10. Mike babyshark33 Kachan – 375,000
11. Justin Schwartz – 254,000
12. Jeff Blenkarn – 252,000
13. Neo Hoang – 237,000
14. Daniel Riley – 232,000
15. Michael BOBCATSPEGAL Spegal – 223,000
16. Bastian Fischer – 219,000

Finally, Rick Salomon (pictured) leads the final nine in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop, which should crown a champion on Tuesday.

The end of the day on Monday was not without some controversy, as, according to WSOP.com, “With the end of Level 19, the tournament staff informed the players that they will be stopping for the night. Immediately, Scott Seiver looked around the table confused by the fact that play would be stopping on the bubble. Seiver asked the rest of the table if they would like to keep playing and everyone said they would, everyone except Tobias Reinkemeier.”

Due to television production issues, the tournament was eventually halted on the bubble, as the top eight players will finish in the money. Salomon is a film producer, according to WSOP staff, and was famously involved in a sex tape with Paris Hilton more than a decade ago. He has been married to the likes of Elizabeth Daily, Shannen Doherty, and Pamela Anderson.

Here’s how the chip stacks look:

1. Rick Salomon – 23,575,000
2. Tobias Reinkemeier – 22,825,000
3. Daniel Colman – 22,625,000
4. Daniel Negreanu – 20,700,000
5. Cary Katz – 9,125,000
6. Scott Seiver – 8,250,000
7. Tom Hall – 7,775,000
8. Christoph Vogelsang – 7,075,000
9. Paul Newey – 4,050,000

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