Kaum geht das eine $1.500 No Limit Hold’em in die Entscheidung, startet auch schon das nächste. Mit 2828 Teilnehmern waren es mehr als beim letzten und so warten $668.276 auf den Sieger. Nur rund 350 Spieler blieben nach Tag 1 übrig und Claudio Rinaldi mischt ganz vorne mit.
Einige Deutsche waren mit am Start beim NLH, unter anderem Marco Liesy, Jan von Halle, Fabian Holling oder auch Heinz Kamutzki. Auch die Pros durften nicht fehlen und so sah man Steven van Zadelhoff, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Madsen, Soren Kongsgaard, Luigi Kwaysser, Weltmeister Jonathan Duhamel, Mihai Manole, Martin Kabrhel, Layne Flack, Joe Cada, Scotty Nguyen, Jason Mercier, Phil Hellmuth und viele andere mehr.
Wie immer bei den Events mit großen Teilnehmerfelder kam es auch hier an Tag 1 bereits zum großen Aufräumen und viele der Pros verabschiedeten sich bereits vom Bracelet. Faraz Jaka, Jennifer Tilly, wieder einmal Tom Dwan oder auch Phil Hellmuth mussten bereits gehen. Hellmuth lag am Flop 
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vorne, aber am River das Ass und kein zwölftes Bracelet für Hellmuth. Michael Mizrachi, Brandon Cantu, Scott Montgomery, Scotty Nguyen, Joe Cada, Nenad Medic, Jeff Masen, sie alle ereilte dasselbe Schicksal.
Nur rund 350 Spieler konnten am Ende Chips einpacken und so wie es aussieht, Adam Lippert die meisten. Er stand bei 139k, aber auch Chino Rheem brachte es auf 110k. Claudio Rinaldi scheiterte knapp am 100.000er und hatte am Ende 95k. Den Rest zeigt der Chipcount später. Tag 2 beginnt kurz vor der Bubble, denn 297 Spieler werden bezahlt. Wer es in die Geldränge schafft, hat zumindest $2.786 für seine Bankroll.
| 1 | Adam Lippert | 150.200 |
| 2 | Rodrigo Portaleoni | 144.800 |
| 3 | Andrew Barber | 142.400 |
| 4 | Matthew Wantman | 124.200 |
| 5 | Jakob Tostesen | 121.100 |
| 6 | Daniel Close | 118.500 |
| 7 | Daryl Katz | 114.400 |
| 8 | Soi Nguyen | 107.200 |
| 9 | Ramsey Ajram | 104.800 |
| 10 | Pietermichae Degoede | 103.000 |
| 11 | Chino Rheem | 101.500 |
| 12 | Claudio Rinaldi | 100.900 |
| 13 | Michael Whitfield | 99.900 |
| 14 | William Reilley | 98.000 |
| 15 | Martin Kabrhel | 94.800 |
| 16 | Marco Lang | 93.100 |
| 17 | John Zelasko | 89.500 |
| 18 | Kyle Cartwright | 88.800 |
| 19 | Seyed Madani | 86.500 |
| 20 | Adam Latimer | 86.000 |
| 21 | Hou Vang | 84.300 |
| 22 | Kun Tong | 79.400 |
| 23 | Jamie Kerstetter | 79.300 |
| 24 | Michael Skomac | 79.200 |
| 25 | Tracy Myers | 78.400 |
| 26 | Vladimir Kochelaevskiy | 78.300 |
| 27 | James Kramer | 77.400 |
| 28 | Hovan Nguyen | 76.800 |
| 29 | Andrea Dato | 76.400 |
| 30 | Jonathan Lane | 76.200 |
| 31 | Dong Dinh | 74.500 |
| 32 | Bodo Sbrzesny | 72.800 |
| 33 | Lisa Emrich | 71.900 |
| 34 | Kyle Bonazzo | 71.700 |
| 35 | Paul Attie | 71.500 |
| 36 | Louis Tran | 71.500 |
| 37 | Layne Flack | 71.100 |
| 38 | Brett Jungblut | 70.900 |
| 39 | Alexander Hanell | 70.700 |
| 40 | Rob Ellerman | 70.600 |
| 41 | Sean Ripp | 69.900 |
| 42 | Jason Lee | 69.300 |
| 43 | Derek Fitzgerald | 67.100 |
| 44 | Dmitry Vitkind | 67.000 |
| 45 | Vincent Lucardie | 66.700 |
| 46 | Tod Holley | 62.000 |
| 47 | James Kasputis | 61.700 |
| 48 | Nathan Goldstein | 60.700 |
| 49 | Chace Tommaso | 60.100 |
| 50 | Samuel Greenwood | 59.800 |
| 51 | Kirk Caldwell | 59.200 |
| 52 | Stephen Graner | 59.200 |
| 53 | Steven Goosen | 59.100 |
| 54 | Roman Valerstein | 58.600 |
| 55 | Jacob Szudera | 57.800 |
| 56 | Christopher Bonita | 57.000 |
| 57 | Marc Mclaughlin | 57.000 |
| 58 | Carter Gill | 55.400 |
| 59 | Gary Dishongh | 53.000 |
| 60 | Venerando Villarino | 52.700 |
| 61 | Casey Caldwell | 52.300 |
| 62 | Lee Dreyfuss | 51.500 |
| 63 | Ryan Moriarty | 50.800 |
| 64 | Thomas O’Neal | 50.700 |
| 65 | Philip Lowery | 50.500 |
| 66 | Micah Smith | 50.500 |
| 67 | Robert Norberg | 50.400 |
| 68 | Martin Green | 50.000 |
| 69 | Petr Andreev | 49.700 |
| 70 | Brent Hanks | 49.500 |
| 71 | Bradford Albrinck | 48.700 |
| 72 | Zachary Hall | 48.600 |
| 73 | Justin Young | 48.500 |
| 74 | Thomas Fuller | 48.100 |
| 75 | Jia Liu | 47.900 |
| 76 | Dylan Thomassie | 47.800 |
| 77 | Germano Martucci | 47.500 |
| 78 | Lance Federick | 47.400 |
| 79 | Scot Williams | 47.000 |
| 80 | Logan Headley | 46.900 |
| 81 | Anthony Gargano | 45.900 |
| 82 | Mack Ham | 45.900 |
| 83 | Pratyush Buddiga | 45.900 |
| 84 | DID NOT REPORT | 45.800 |
| 85 | Delia Milliron | 45.700 |
| 86 | Jeffrey West | 45.500 |
| 87 | Edgar Delatorre | 45.470 |
| 88 | Tim West | 45.200 |
| 89 | Jakub Milion | 45.100 |
| 90 | Daniel Smith | 44.900 |
| 91 | Charles Bernard | 44.900 |
| 92 | Jeff Carris | 44.800 |
| 93 | Francis Colamarino | 43.800 |
| 94 | Ryan Jaconetti | 43.700 |
| 95 | Gaurav Law | 43.600 |
| 96 | John Eames | 43.600 |
| 97 | Bradley Myers | 43.500 |
| 98 | Daniel Chamberlain | 42.800 |
| 99 | Pierremarc Chadi | 42.700 |
| 100 | Park Yu Cheung | 42.100 |
| 101 | Corrie Wunstel | 41.900 |
| 102 | David Chase | 41.500 |
| 103 | Loren Cloninger | 41.400 |
| 104 | Mark Clum | 41.200 |
| 105 | Juan Pastorbaez | 41.100 |
| 106 | Douglas Henderson | 40.900 |
| 107 | William Palmer | 40.500 |
| 108 | Jason Turnage | 40.400 |
| 109 | Scott Abrams | 40.300 |
| 110 | Per Martin Jacobson | 40.300 |
| 111 | Josh Brikis | 40.200 |
| 112 | Mattia Orlandi | 40.100 |
| 113 | Brendan Waite | 40.000 |
| 114 | Joseph Kuether | 39.800 |
| 115 | Anthony Tulai | 39.400 |
| 116 | Ilya Andreev | 39.100 |
| 117 | Kenneth Hicks | 39.100 |
| 118 | Mark Miller | 38.800 |
| 119 | Jeremy Ausmus | 38.400 |
| 120 | Ron Herman | 38.300 |
| 121 | Guilherme Garcia | 38.200 |
| 122 | Jacob Zimmerman | 38.200 |
| 123 | Nicola Maiorana | 38.100 |
| 124 | Steven Kerr | 37.900 |
| 125 | Thamas Anson | 37.700 |
| 126 | Alex Madriaga | 37.300 |
| 127 | Martin Stevens | 37.200 |
| 128 | Aaron Orourke | 37.100 |
| 129 | Eric Cloutier | 37.100 |
| 130 | Michael Blocksidge | 37.100 |
| 131 | Chamath Palihapitiya | 37.100 |
| 132 | Manh Nguyen | 37.000 |
| 133 | Sean Chen | 36.700 |
| 134 | Mark Flowers | 36.700 |
| 135 | Keith Block | 36.600 |
| 136 | Theodore Simonson | 36.500 |
| 137 | Kevin Iacofano | 36.300 |
| 138 | Brandan Zaucha | 36.200 |
| 139 | TJ Cloutier | 36.100 |
| 140 | Michael Fong | 35.900 |
| 141 | Donovan Simms | 35.900 |
| 142 | Pluria Marshall | 35.800 |
| 143 | Phillip Dagger | 35.400 |
| 144 | Daniel Heffner | 35.000 |
| 145 | Chris Mccormack | 35.000 |
| 146 | William Heinselman | 34.600 |
| 147 | Sol Hessell | 34.600 |
| 148 | Richard Rush | 34.100 |
| 149 | Dennis Wilke | 34.000 |
| 150 | Franciscus Andries | 33.600 |
| 151 | Jeffrey King | 33.500 |
| 152 | Keith Williams | 33.400 |
| 153 | Jesus Cabrera | 33.400 |
| 154 | Bradford Corner | 33.100 |
| 155 | Udo Seepe | 33.100 |
| 156 | Steven van Zadelhoff | 33.000 |
| 157 | Benoit Albiges | 32.900 |
| 158 | Mario Orozco | 32.800 |
| 159 | Federico Gambino | 32.400 |
| 160 | Michael Smith | 32.400 |
| 161 | Gordon Vayo | 32.400 |
| 162 | Eddie Blumenthal | 32.300 |
| 163 | Michael Decock | 32.200 |
| 164 | Mikhail Petrov | 31.900 |
| 165 | Harminder Aujla | 31.600 |
| 166 | Pham Kimphuc | 31.500 |
| 167 | Kelvin Beattie | 31.300 |
| 168 | Corbin White | 31.200 |
| 169 | Ronald Ruhl | 30.700 |
| 170 | James Lester | 30.600 |
| 171 | Jason Mo | 30.600 |
| 172 | Kevin Brown | 30.500 |
| 173 | Joshua Cook | 29.800 |
| 174 | Billy McBrayer | 29.800 |
| 175 | Jesse Maupin | 29.200 |
| 176 | James Geoghegan | 29.100 |
| 177 | Randy Haddox | 29.100 |
| 178 | Lev Briskin | 28.800 |
| 179 | Kostantinos Segounis | 28.600 |
| 180 | Michael Pierce | 28.400 |
| 181 | Ricardo Franco | 28.200 |
| 182 | Dimitrios Sachinidis | 28.200 |
| 183 | Matt Affleck | 27.900 |
| 184 | Ilan Boujenah | 27.900 |
| 185 | Blake Kelso | 27.800 |
| 186 | Douglas Drake | 27.700 |
| 187 | Brandon Pe | 27.700 |
| 188 | Robert Aron | 27.600 |
| 189 | David Abramowicz | 27.500 |
| 190 | Vincent Colagiovanni | 27.300 |
| 191 | Henry So | 27.000 |
| 192 | Michael Young | 27.000 |
| 193 | Lewis Hunter | 26.800 |
| 194 | Kevin Kalthoff | 26.800 |
| 195 | Steven Fung | 26.800 |
| 196 | Jason James | 26.700 |
| 197 | James Machado | 26.600 |
| 198 | Amit Makhija | 26.500 |
| 199 | Jason Compton | 26.200 |
| 200 | John Bettencourt | 26.100 |
| 201 | Adam Geyer | 26.000 |
| 202 | Jeffrey Okeefe | 26.000 |
| 203 | Amanda Musumeci | 25.800 |
| 204 | Tyler Wrisinger | 25.800 |
| 205 | DID NOT REPORT | 25.700 |
| 206 | Simon Ravnsbaek | 25.700 |
| 207 | Jacob Stearley | 25.400 |
| 208 | John Hopkins | 25.300 |
| 209 | Jonathan Ziegler | 25.300 |
| 210 | Ronald Tourony | 25.200 |
| 211 | Alessandro Nocerino | 25.200 |
| 212 | Obed Oliveras | 24.800 |
| 213 | Michael Faterkowski | 24.800 |
| 214 | Alfred Jackson | 24.700 |
| 215 | Andrew Badecker | 24.400 |
| 216 | Fernando Martin | 24.200 |
| 217 | Daniel Couzens | 24.200 |
| 218 | Kevin Mccormack | 24.000 |
| 219 | William Pitts | 23.900 |
| 220 | Donald Mitchell | 23.800 |
| 221 | Bobby Poe | 23.800 |
| 222 | James Mackey | 23.700 |
| 223 | Brett Shaffer | 23.500 |
| 224 | Christopher Hatton | 23.200 |
| 225 | Mathieu Jacqmin | 23.000 |
| 226 | Paul Dominski | 23.000 |
| 227 | Jared Ingles | 23.000 |
| 228 | Sandeep Pulusani | 22.900 |
| 229 | Dan Natarelli | 22.900 |
| 230 | Justin Marsh | 22.900 |
| 231 | Michael Lau | 22.800 |
| 232 | Robert Mitchell | 22.700 |
| 233 | Joe Patrick | 22.600 |
| 234 | Roger Sippl | 22.500 |
| 235 | Andrew Teng | 22.500 |
| 236 | Spencer Hudson | 22.400 |
| 237 | Perry Chou | 22.100 |
| 238 | Ernest Brooks | 22.000 |
| 239 | Jesse Yaginuma | 22.000 |
| 240 | Scott Zakheim | 21.900 |
| 241 | Todd Terry | 21.800 |
| 242 | Yong Kim | 21.500 |
| 243 | Stephen Bennette | 21.400 |
| 244 | Jan Baumgartner | 21.100 |
| 245 | Stephen Chimelski | 21.100 |
| 246 | John Thompson | 21.000 |
| 247 | Michael Rocco | 21.000 |
| 248 | Brian Darabi | 20.700 |
| 249 | George Medrano | 20.700 |
| 250 | Ory Hen | 20.600 |
| 251 | Michael Hallen | 20.600 |
| 252 | Gabriel Houle | 20.500 |
| 253 | Michael Meyers | 20.400 |
| 254 | Randy Ohel | 20.300 |
| 255 | James Hughes | 20.200 |
| 256 | Andrew Brussard | 20.200 |
| 257 | Vasilis Calfountzos | 20.200 |
| 258 | Dror Michaelo | 20.200 |
| 259 | Jason DeWitt | 20.000 |
| 260 | Heinz Pius | 20.000 |
| 261 | Edward Holyoke | 20.000 |
| 262 | Roger Farmer | 19.900 |
| 263 | Homan Mohammadi | 19.300 |
| 264 | Joyce Makaay | 19.000 |
| 265 | Larry Wright | 18.900 |
| 266 | Christopher Woodbury | 18.800 |
| 267 | Jody Keeling | 18.500 |
| 268 | Matthew Smith | 18.400 |
| 269 | Jonathan Karamalikis | 18.300 |
| 270 | Mikhail Lakhitov | 18.200 |
| 271 | Nathan Hoines | 18.200 |
| 272 | Roy Thung | 18.100 |
| 273 | Tony Chan | 17.700 |
| 274 | Carlos Oliveira | 17.600 |
| 275 | Dan O’Brien | 17.600 |
| 276 | Federico Stivoli | 17.500 |
| 277 | Daniel Suied | 17.000 |
| 278 | James Darnaby | 16.900 |
| 279 | Humberto Reynoso | 16.600 |
| 280 | Thomas Mou | 16.600 |
| 281 | Gregory Cohen | 16.600 |
| 282 | Norihiko Ogawa | 16.200 |
| 283 | Joshua Field | 16.100 |
| 284 | Michael Theurkauf | 15.800 |
| 285 | Shawn Ensman | 15.700 |
| 286 | Jamie Roberts | 15.600 |
| 287 | Steven Woody | 15.400 |
| 288 | Scott Lazewski | 15.300 |
| 289 | Gennadiy Dvosis | 15.200 |
| 290 | Christian Pereira | 15.100 |
| 291 | Kory Mitchell | 15.000 |
| 292 | Stephen Kats | 15.000 |
| 293 | William Cruz | 15.000 |
| 294 | Tom Love | 15.000 |
| 295 | Joshua Pedraza | 15.000 |
| 296 | Ricardo Nakamura | 14.900 |
| 297 | Thomas Garland | 14.800 |
| 298 | Koen De Visscher | 14.600 |
| 299 | Anders Taylor | 14.500 |
| 300 | Ryan Julius | 14.300 |
| 301 | Svetlana Gromenkova | 14.200 |
| 302 | Alexander Queen | 14.200 |
| 303 | Lawrence Hill | 14.100 |
| 304 | Steven Tabb | 14.100 |
| 305 | Eric Francon | 14.000 |
| 306 | Manuel Cuberos | 14.000 |
| 307 | Ryan Napier | 13.800 |
| 308 | Mikhail Yakovlev | 13.700 |
| 309 | Michael Brandt | 13.400 |
| 310 | Michael Kamran | 13.000 |
| 311 | Che Wong | 12.900 |
| 312 | Gabriel Nassif | 12.700 |
| 313 | Billy Denton | 12.700 |
| 314 | Zach Clark | 12.000 |
| 315 | Yu Truong | 12.000 |
| 316 | Andras Stumpf | 11.900 |
| 317 | Rodney Brown | 11.900 |
| 318 | Michael Noda | 11.700 |
| 319 | Jeff Sluzinski | 11.600 |
| 320 | Edwin Muller | 11.500 |
| 321 | Kristian Pedersen | 11.500 |
| 322 | Stuart Hosen | 11.300 |
| 323 | Anthony Lamarra | 11.200 |
| 324 | Jason Koon | 11.100 |
| 325 | Benjamin Chan | 10.600 |
| 326 | Joseluis Cobo | 10.500 |
| 327 | Man Rong Cha | 10.400 |
| 328 | Donavan Roussell | 10.300 |
| 329 | Nadim Shabou | 10.100 |
| 330 | William Exelby | 10.100 |
| 331 | Shawn Busse | 10.000 |
| 332 | David Castro | 9.700 |
| 333 | David Baker | 9.600 |
| 334 | Jesse Holguin | 9.500 |
| 335 | Richard Orchid | 9.400 |
| 336 | Ken Majka | 9.400 |
| 337 | Daniel Hirleman | 9.200 |
| 338 | Benjamin Vogt | 9.100 |
| 339 | Chio Ern | 9.000 |
| 340 | Ryan Feder | 9.000 |
| 341 | Farhan Madhani | 8.700 |
| 342 | David Pishvafar | 8.600 |
| 343 | Kevin Top | 8.600 |
| 344 | Ronald Wood | 8.500 |
| 345 | Garith Rodgers | 8.200 |
| 346 | Marc Cabrera | 8.100 |
| 347 | Robert Perelman | 8.100 |
| 348 | Jamus Sundstrom | 8.100 |
| 349 | Wilfried Harig | 7.900 |
| 350 | Maxim Sorokin | 7.700 |
| 351 | Andrew Lee | 6.900 |
| 352 | Marco Palacios | 6.700 |
| 353 | Halley Hamburger | 6.700 |
| 354 | Ray Silao | 6.100 |
| 355 | Gregorie Kerjeanlecrane | 6.000 |
| 356 | Xa Yang | 5.200 |
| 357 | Nuri Kural | 4.600 |
| 358 | Hannah Hunt | 3.900 |
| 359 | Scott Berkey | 3.400 |
| 360 | David Varano | 1.340 |
| 361 | Shaun Tobin | 1 |
| 362 | Samuel Ngai | 1 |
