Day 2 of The Closer to Begin at 5 P.M.
With Day 1b finishing soon, Day 2 of Event #85: $1,500 The Closer will begin at 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 17.
Day 1a saw a total of 929 entries with 75 players making it through to Day 2. In Day 1b, 2039 took to the felt and before play had stopped, 477 were left in the event.
Prize pool and payouts will be confirmed as Day 2 gets underway. Chip counts and the seat draw will be available before play begins.
Event #85 $1,500 The Closer Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Name | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Ahmed Karrim | South Africa | 1,695,000 | 57 |
| 2 | Raghav Bansal | India | 1,600,000 | 53 |
| 3 | Sean Ragozzini | Australia | 1,550,000 | 52 |
| 4 | Garrett Johnstone | United States | 1,450,000 | 48 |
| 5 | Tony Nieman | United States | 1,285,000 | 43 |
| 6 | Kazuhiro Shirasawa | Japan | 1,235,000 | 41 |
| 7 | Teddy Cablay | United States | 1,200,030 | 40 |
| 8 | Neil Rauschhuber | United States | 1,100,000 | 37 |
| 9 | Jessie Bryant | United States | 1,000,020 | 33 |
| 10 | Ronnie Anderson | United States | 935,000 | 31 |
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for the nut flush while his opponent had the 
for no good top two, as he became one of the bigger stacks early on Day 2.
for top two but would have to hold off the 
flush draw of Pham. The turn was the 
to also give Pham the broadway draw. But the river was a complete brick, the 
and Pham's stack was decimated while Ho shot higher up the counts.
. Oliver Biles made a river bet which Shaun Deeb called after thinking for a while.
. Deeb shook his head and mucked his cards in frustration as his stack was knocked down to short one following the call.
. Action went check-check.
. From under the gun, Jonathan Dokler moved all in and Phillip Martin snap-called from middle position by tossing one chip in the pot.
straight of Martin to send the sizeable pot over to him and take much of Dokler's stack away.
to give Steinman a flush draw. The turn was the 
vs the 
to give Deeb the near double up and keep his run for a sixth bracelet very much alive.
