English professional poker player Adam Owen bagged the chip lead after Day 1 of the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship. The initial 80-player field was reduced to 26 remaining hopefuls during the first ten levels of the tournament. The $752,000 prize pool will be divided between the top 12 finishers with $232,738 reserved for the champ.
Owen, 24, specializes in mixed games. He is yet to win a bracelet but he's an accomplished player with many online accolades. Owen is no stranger in WSOP fields. He has four top 10 finishes to his name. He came close to winning the jewelry back in 2015 when he took $104,914 after finishing third to Phil Hellmuth and Mike Gorodinsky in the $10,000 Razz Championship. That prize remains Owen's biggest WSOP cash to date, but his career-best payday came in the EPT13 Barcelona Main Event where he notched another third-place finish, worth €646,250.
Owen tangled in several pots against fresh WSOP bracelet winner James Obst today. Obst himself will come back for Day 2 with a solid 227,000, good for sixth place among the remaining players.
Those who sneaked between Owen and Obst in the chip counts were Robert Campbell (291,000), [Removed:412] (264,500), Mike Watson (261,500) and the $1,500 8-Game runner-up Mike Ross (248,000).
Notable faces among the remaining field include David Benyamine (223,500), Anthony Zinno (204,000), Shaun Deeb (117,000) and Mike Matusow, who bounced back from a short stack. Matusow will continue with 90,500 while Todd Brunson (31,000) and JC Tran (17,500) close the rankings.
Day 1 saw many players depart as heavyweights such as Daniel Negreanu, Mike Gorodinsky, Paul Volpe and John Monnette failed to qualify for the next stage of the tournament.
Event #34 will resume Sunday at 2 p.m. and PokerNews reporters will be at the tables to bring you live coverage from Day 2.
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
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| Brasilia | 715 | 1 | Ben Yu | United States | 134,500 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 2 | Cary Katz | United States | 59,500 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 3 | Lyle Berman | United States | 133,000 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 4 | Mike Wattel | United States | 124,000 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 5 | Nick Schulman | United States | 121,500 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 6 | Brian Tate | United States | 69,000 |
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| Brasilia | 716 | 1 | Michael Ross | United States | 248,000 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 2 | David Benyamine | United States | 223,500 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 3 | Adam Owen | United Kingdom | 336,000 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 4 | Shawn Buchanan | Canada | 167,500 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 6 | Georgii Belianin | Russia | 184,000 |
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| Brasilia | 717 | 1 | Mike Matusow | United States | 90,500 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 2 | JC Tran | United States | 17,500 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 3 | Jyri Merivirta | Finland | 51,000 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 4 | Robert Campbell | Australia | 291,000 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 5 | Mark Gregorich | United States | 155,000 |
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| Brasilia | 718 | 1 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 204,000 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 2 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 180,000 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 4 | Jordan Siegel | United States | 136,000 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 5 | James Obst | Australia | 227,000 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 6 | Ismael Bojang | Austria | 70,500 |
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| Brasilia | 719 | 1 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 117,000 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 2 | Mike Watson | Canada | 261,500 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 4 | Tyler Meservy | United States | 102,500 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 5 | Todd Brunson | United States | 31,000 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 6 | Christopher Kruk | Canada | 264,000 |
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