Not everyone was as fortunate as Javier and Torelli. Bin Weng, the Day 1a chip leader, will enter Day 2 as the only player above 400,000 in chips (411,500). Kevin Javier bagged the chip lead with 378,500. That put him in fifth place from the session's survivors.
When play ended at around midnight from bestbet Jacksonville, Torelli had 308,000 chips to drop into his bag. But he could be a few days away from ending that drought. Although he's had a successful career in cash games, he hasn't won a The Hendon Mob recorded tournament since 2008. Torelli, a longtime poker pro and poker coach, finished 11th in the Main Event this past summer for $700,000, his largest score ever. Long Time Coming for Torelli Alec Torelli First place is set to pay $351,650, and a min-cash - 46th place - pays $9,400. The pot hit $1,660,750 with a total of 365 entrants.
Registration is now closed and the $1 million guarantee was easily surpassed. He was among 73 survivors from the session, all of whom will join the 55 players on Sunday at noon ET who bagged Day 1a. On Saturday, Torelli bagged one of the largest stacks on Day 1b of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble. Four months after narrowly missing the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table, Alec Torelli is off and running in his quest to run deep in another major poker tournament.
