The 2019 World Series of Poker continued on Saturday with another massive field in the Big 50 as that event quickly hurtles toward a record for the largest WSOP event ever.
Ben Heath Leads Talented Final 12 in $50K High Roller
Players were able to register for the $50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event #5) until the mid-way point of Day 2. This lead to a total of 110 entries and a final prize pool of $5,280,000. Just 12 players remain in contention for the bracelet and the first place prize of $1,484,085.
Leading the way is Britain's Ben Heath. Finishing with 5,255,000, Heath managed to go from starting the day second in chips to sitting atop the chip counts.
Russian Dmirty Yurasov spent a good amount of time as the chip leader and was only eclipsed in the last level of the night. Yurasov bagged up 4,800,000. Elio Fox sits third with 4,695,000.
Chip Leader Coaching's Chance Kornuth ended up in fourth place with 4,510,000.
Top 10 Chip Counts
Jake Schwartz - 117,600
Julien Martini - 117,400
Jordan Siegel - 95,000
Brayden Gazlay - 91,000
John Racener - 83,100
Jason Daly - 81,300
Andrey Zhigalov - 77,500
Wes Self - 74,500
Layne Flack - 66,200
