At this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, no matter how big a tournament’s field is, brand name pros are rising to the top. We’ve already seen pros like Phil Hellmuth, Phil Galfond, and Shaun Deeb win bracelets this year. Now, we could have bracelet #1 from Chris moorman1 Moorman (pictured), the most successful PocketFiver in history.
Kai Yang from Plano, Texas leads the way with a stack of 1.35 million in chips as we enter Day 3 of a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em event (#30). He’s one of two players to bag more than one million in chips on Day 2, along with Artur jaggalo1231 Rudziankov.
Then there’s Moorman, who has the third largest stack in the tournament at 966,000. Moorman, the owner of a record 25 PocketFives Triple Crowns, already has a World Poker Tour title. He has been the runner-up in two bracelet events during his career, but is still looking for his first WSOP win.
Moorman busted Ronald Lee in 25th place on Monday after his pocket sixes beat Lee’s pocket fives. The money went in before the flop and both players hit full houses. That hand sent Moorman’s stack to almost one million.