Poker : Day 1A of Wsop event 36

Day 1A of event 36 – the third of the $1,000 buy-in NLHE competitions started Saturday afternoon in Vegas with a massive entry field of 2,559 strewn with familiar names like Kathy Liebert, Theo Tran, Paul Wasika, Scott Montgomery, Shannon Shorr, Eric Baldwin, Adam Junglen, Carter Phillips, Marco Traniello, Leo Margets, Jan Skampa, Tom Dwan, David Baker, Chris Ferguson, JJ Liu and Andy Black.
 
By day’s end only 287 remained with the departure list featuring Tom Dwan, Sorel Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Alexandre Gomes, Hevad Khan, Shaun Deeb, Eric Baldwin, Dennis Phillips, Paul Wasicka, Humberto Brenes, Arnaud Mattern and Andy Black.
 
Leading the field was Scott Montgomery, with Bernard Ko, Mark Leonard, Neil Channing, Edwin Chang and Tim West all within striking distance.

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