India 11/2176 in 2016 WSOP Main Event; Aditya Sushant Leading the Indian Side with 367,400 Chips

Day 2C of 2016 WSOP $10,000 Main Event is in the books with Gustavo Lopes of Brazil leading the survivors with 630,700 chips. Day 3 action will resume on Thursday with a combined field of 2176 players from Day 2AB and Day 2C. Valentin Vornicu will start the Day 3 proceedings in overall chip lead with a stack of 838,600 at blinds 1000/2000.2016-wsop

Team India is marching forward in the battle of the biggest poker tournament with 10 survivors in the field. Leading from front is Aditya Sushant with a stack of 367,400. Sharavan Chhabria, Akshay Bharadwaj and Phani Ramineni are the other Indians who qualified for Day 3 from Day 1C battle. They will join the fellow Indian players who made it to Day 3 from Day 1AB game. Here are the chip counts of Indian Players:

Aditya Sushant – 367,400

Raghav Bansal – 287,400

Shravan Chhabria – 184,000

Aditya Agarwal – 157,100

Akshay Bharadwaj – 138,400

Mauris Noronha – 136,400

Dhaval Mudgal – 88,800

Amit Jain – 82,500

Phani Ramineni – 32,900

Jaideep Sajwan – 31,700

Former champions that are still in the hunt for a second Main Event Championship include Phil Hellmuth (82,300), Ryan Reiss (349,000) and defending champion Joe McKeehen (183,900), who will hoping to do the impossible and win back to back Main Event titles. A feat that has not been accomplished since Johnny Chan managed it in 1987 and 1988.

As it stands currently the Top 10 stacks that are going into Day 3 are:

  1. Valentin Vornicu (838,600)
  2. Gustavo Lopez (630,700)
  3. 3.Raffaele Castro (587,000)
  4. Jamie Shaevel (586,000)
  5. Alvaro Lopez (573,000)
  6. Rafael Moraes (571,900)
  7. Albert Daher (570,200)
  8. Ramin Hajiyev (558,000)
  9. Michael Mizrachi (549,400)
  10. Chad Power (546,800)