Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event was played on Sunday at the host venue. It kicked of with 182 players from the tournament’s two starting flights, but the field was reduced to just 19 survivors by the time all ten levels scheduled were completed.
Jonathan Hilton, a player who boasts one gold bracelet and one gold ring as well as more than $1.14 million in earnings from the WSOP and WSOP Circuit series, leads the final 19 with 2.175 million. The player was the only one to have cracked the two million mark at the end of Day 2 play.
Hilton scooped both his WSOP trophies in 2013, when he bested the fields of a WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Council Bluffs $365 No-Limit Hold’em and the WSOP National Championship $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em.
Hilton is not the only accomplished player to have made it thus far into the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event. In fact, the top five stacks after Day 2 of the event are held by players with quite some poker portfolios.
Peter Vitantonio, himself a former WSOP Circuit gold ring winner, is trailing behind Hilton with 1.925 million. Vitantonio is vying for his fourth gold piece and second Main Event title from the series.
Timothy ‘TK’ Miles bagged the third largest stack last night with 1.7 million. The player has previously won two gold rings from WSOP Circuit events, and has come really close to taking down a Main Event. In 2008, the player finished runner up in the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans $5,000 Main Event for $210,610.
Robert Hankins, who has nine gold rings, ended Day 2 of the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event with 1.7 million and with hopes to scoop his 10th gold piece and thus tie with Maurice Hawkins and Valentin Vornicu. The latter two represent the tiny club of winners of a record-breaking number of gold rings.
Headliner
The 19 finalists will be headlined by Erick Lindgren. With live tournament earnings of over $10.3 million and multiple trophies, the player has quite a lot to boast about. He is a two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner and also a winner of two WPT Main Tour Main Event titles. His list of live poker accomplishments also includes a first-place finish in the 2007 Aussie Millions A$100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. Lindgren is yet to win his first WSOP Circuit gold ring. The player bagged 1.51 million chips last night.
Action at Harrah’s Cherokee is set to resume today at noon local time. The survivors will play down until a champion is determined. The winner will collect a gold ring and $294,152 in prize money. The last person standing will also secure a seat into the upcoming Global Casino Championship, which will be played at Harrah’s Cherokee this August.
Each of the 19 finalists is guaranteed a minimum cash prize of $13,070. The Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event attracted a field of 1,060 entries who generated a prize pool of $1.59 million, exceeding the $1 million guarantee by more than half a million.
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