Isaac Haxton

The final table of the $40k NLHE event (Event #2) at the World Series of Poker has now been set, and Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton is your chip leader heading into Sunday’s action.

Final table chip counts

Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton – 5.95 million
Vitaly Lunkin – 4.56 million
Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis – 3.8 million
Greg Raymer – 3.34 million
Alec Torelli – 2.34 million
Justin “Zeejustin” Bonomo – 1.68 million
Dani “Ansky” Stern – 1.3 million
Noah Schwartz – 660k
Ted Forrest – 560k

Home of the 2009 wsop

Day 1 Concludes, 89 to return tomorrow at 2 p.m.

pokernews.com Of the 201 players that ponied up the forty dime buy-in, 89 will move on to Day 2. Currently, Bruno Fitoussi leads the field with 812,500 in chips while 2003 Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker is right behind him with 805,000. Also sporting healthy stacks are Michael DeMichele, Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis, Emil “whitelime” Patel, Brian Townsend and Justin Bonomo.

In a field of greats, the greats must fall and we saw just that with the departures of bracelet winners Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda, Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Kathy Liebert, Johnny Chan, Barry Greenstein, and Chris Ferguson. Also making a Day 1 exit were the top three finishers in the 2008 Main Event (Peter Eastgate, Ivan Demidov, and Dennis Phillips),Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Isaac Baron, Jonathan Little, David Benyamine, Eric Liu, Aaron Been, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Erick Lindgren and Gavin Griffin.

Top 10  @fter Day 1