SHR Day 1 wraps up – Daniel Henderson with massive lead

After a little more than 12 hours of play, the Playground WSOP-C 2018 Event #4 $5,000 + $300 Super High Roller Day 1 has come to a close. The players started off with 250,000 chips, and the tournament sported a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool. It also allowed for unlimited re-entries until the end of the 10th level of play.

In total, 11 players made it to the end and were able to bag chips for Day 2.

As early as level 4, Paul Klann had already doubled his stack and both Mike Leah and Jason James were right behind. In the next few levels, Daniel Henderson climbed the leader board quickly. By level 7 Daniel was in the lead with more than 800,000 chips, with Jason and Paul rounding up the top three.

In level 9, Jeff Cormier, who had never hit higher than 5th position on the leader boards, became the first millionnaire of the tournament. By then Daniel Henderson had dropped to 2nd place, and Christian Harder made his first appearance on the board in 3rd position. When the break after level 10 came around we went back to the felts to count the stacks and by then we had 4 millionaires: Jason James, Alexander Wong, Daniel Henderson & Shane Currey.

At this point in the tournament, there were already 74 entries, and it was decided that the original schedule (to play until the final table) would be revised. The remaining players and the tournament director conferred, and it was decided to only play 3 more levels, and return on Day 2.

The last complete chip count at 16 players showed Daniel Henderson making a huge comeback to first place with almost 4,000,000 chips. The next player behind him was Jeffrey Cormier with 2,346,000 chips. When the time came to put the chips in the bags leader Daniel Henderson had amassed an incredible 6,174,000 chips. The only other player to have more than 2 million chips is Jean-Serge Baril, who bagged 2,410,000.

Play will resume on Friday, August 31st at 1:00pm, and play will continue until we crown a winner.