Senthuran Vijayaratnam Looking to Win His First Bracelet in Event #63: $500 Salute to Warriors
The 169 remaining players in Event #63: $500 Salute to Warriors are already in the money and they are guaranteed a payout of $1,026. Leading the way is Andrew Moon who bagged an impressive 1,274,000 in chips. He is followed by Taylor Pollard (866,000), Nicholas Verderomo (654,000), Mike Wheeler (650,000), and Senthuran Vijayaratnam (629,000).
Vijaryatnam has already cashed in both Event #55: COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em and Event #61: Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em at the 2021 World Series of Poker, and with over $300,000 in live earnings he will be looking to earn his first WSOP Gold Bracelet.
Day 2 action will begin at 12 p.m. local time with action picking up on Level 18, where blinds will be 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante. Play is scheduled to play down to the final five players, with blind levels lasting 40-minutes. Players will receive a 15-minute break after every three levels, and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 26.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand throughout the day bringing you all of the updates from this event and others.
vs the 
of Mark Brodsky.
to give Brodsky a set of queens and give him what appeared to be a stranglehold on the hand.
to open up a gutshot for Zhang and the river was the 
to hit that gutshot as the table reacted to the runner-runner bad beat for Brodksy to leave him short and keep Zhang alive.
vs Christopher Corbo who had 
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to miss Vijayaratnam as he hit the rail.
, Erik Cajelais checked to Hlib Kovtunov who jammed all-in. Erik Cajelais had about 360,000 left and made the call.
turn improved him to trips. The 
on the river completed a flush dor Kovtunov though, and Cajelais was eliminated in 27th place for $3,563.
and Espinola was dusted just after dinner break.
and Christopher Corbo checked to Jesus Reyna who jammed for 560,000 and Corbo made the call.
flop, Eric Zhang checked to Robert Jensen and he fired in a bet of 275,000. Zhang raised to 750,000 before Jensen quickly jammed for a little over 1,800,000. Zhang snap-called and both hands were tabled.
