Wsop Event 39


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Officials also called it a day in event 39, the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha tournament, which reached level 8 on its first day in the small hours of Thursday morning, with 103 players remaining from an original entry field of 606 (substantially up on last year's 482) which generated a prize pool of $1.37 million.
 
David Williams currently enjoys a comfortable and sustained lead in an event which attracted a large number of professional players.
 
Eliminated on the first day were the likes of Andy Black, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan, Eric Seidel, Galen Hall, Michael Mizrachi, Matt Affleck, Liv Boeree, Phil Laak, 2011 WSOP bracelet winners Jason Somerville and Sam Stein and Phil Hellmuth.
 
There are still many quality players in the running at this early stage, including Adam Junglen, Bill Chen, Shaun Deeb, Humberto Brenes, Ashkan Razavi and Mitch Schock.
 
63 players will cash in this event.