Piccioli, with 18,417,494 chips, is the lone American to have bagged a top-10 stack after Day 2. Four of the top 10 stacks heading into Day 3 are owned by players hailing from the United Kingdom. Hellmuth won’t be winning his 16th bracelet, but there’s a decent chance a Brit will. The “Poker Brat” wrote on Twitter that he was eliminated around 750th place. Phil Hellmuth, the 1989 WSOP Main Event champ, is one of the unlucky players who advanced to Day 2, but who were unable to cash. On Sunday, more than 1,000 players from the 23 Day 1 starting flights returned to GGPoker for Day 2.

GGPoker’s version of the WSOP Main Event may not be as prestigious as those held over the previous 50 years in Las Vegas, but it’s still a major tournament with more than $27 million in the pot, the largest prize pool ever for an online poker tournament. On Saturday, he’ll have a golden opportunity to earn his biggest and most impressive score ever. The American poker pro is a 2013 bracelet winner (A$1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Accumulator for A$211,575), and has more than $4.5 million worth of lifetime live tournament cashes. He checks in at 109th on the Global Poker Index world rankings. Bryan Piccioli is after his second bracelet and $3.9 million. He, along with the other 37 players, has dreams of winning the $3.9 million first-place prize.

Bryan Piccioli, whose screen - “sumbdySUCKme” - will cause millions of teenagers to giggle uncontrollably, holds the chip lead. The GGPoker WSOP Main Event, a $5,000 buy-in tournament, is down to the final 38 out of 5,802 entries. How Much Money Can You Make Playing Poker?.

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