$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
End of Level 10: 500/1,000/100 Ante
The clock has run out on Day 1B, and 36 of the original 124 players have bagged up for the night.
Danny Notice did the most work today, bagging up 229,500 at night’s end. That gives him the overall chip lead, with both he and Aaron Mermelstein (202,500) pipping ahead of Day 1A’s leader Javier Zarco (202,400).
Mermelstein is on some kind of heater right now, having earned two WPT titles and more than $1.1 million in cash so far in 2015.
Here’s the full list of those who advanced through Day 1B:
Danny Notice – 229,500
Aaron Mermelstein – 202,500
Corey Burbuck – 191,400
Jason Mercier – 186,400
Tristan Wade – 182,400
Hunter Cichy – 134,300
Neil Blumenfield – 131,700
David Barbieri – 124,900
Scott Efron – 121,100
Richard Leger – 120,800
Cord Garcia – 120,000
Chris Bolek – 102,500
Zack Goodman – 98,200
John Dolan – 91,400
Stewart Newman – 80,100
Mohammed Jaafar – 79,900
Mark Johnson – 76,400
Nathan Bjerno – 72,800
Ronit Chamani – 68,500
Joelle Guarino – 58,500
Oleg Lisitsuu – 58,000
Millard Hale – 56,700
Sam Ho – 52,600
Erik Christensen – 52,300
Noah Schwartz – 48,600
Matthew Matlock – 45,000
Harrison Gimbel – 43,700
Peter Walsworth – 42,900
Marshall White – 41,200
Marcus Stein – 34,800
Marc Schiller – 34,400
Gregory Marcus – 31,100
Josh Kay – 26,300
Steven Buckner – 26,200
Richard Zipes – 23,800
Mike Landress – 13,000
The survivors have Saturday off to relax before Sunday’s Day 2, if they so choose. Since this is a best-stack-forward event, though, they may also enter either the final starting flight in an attempt to amass a bigger stack.
Day 1C is expected to be a big one, and it begins Saturday at 12:00 PM.