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Sam Tricket Leads as Money Bubble Bursts with 18 Left in EPL Main Event

The money bubble burst at the end of play on Day 2 at the inaugural Epic Poker League $20,000 main event at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. With 18 players left, Sam Trickett has a healthy 400k lead sitting with over a million chips. The two hour bubble was burst when Matt Graham's pocket Jacks couldn't beat the Kc-Jc of Chino Rheem who hit a flush.

All the remaining players are guaranteed at least $43k and all chasing the first place prize of $1,000,000, which was upped by $17,340 from the second place prize to reach the magical number after players spoke to league Commissioner Annie Duke.

Of note, eight of the remaining players have million-dollar scores in their career.

Also of note to future Pro/Am qualifiers, two players who qualified in the Pro/AM cashed; Victory Poker CEO Dan Fleyshman and Brandon Myers.

Busting out on Day 2 short of the money included Vanessa Selbst, Sorel Mizzi, Phil Laak, Dwyte Pilgrim, Brandon Cantu, Daniel Alaei, Sext, John Racener, Vitaly Lunkin and Antonio Esfandiari.

Final 18 players and their chipstacks:

1. Sam Trickett — 1,032,000
2. Hasan Habib — 646,000
3. Isaac Baron — 637,500
4. Eric Seidel — 609,000
5. Adam Levy — 587,000
6. Jason Mercier — 535,500
7. Matt Glantz — 453,000
8. Eugene Katchalov — 418,000
9. Chino Rheem — 408,000
10. Gavin Smith — 357,500
11. Hoyt Corkins — 252,500
12. Noah Schwartz — 235,000
13. Ted Lawson — 210,000
14. Hafiz Khan — 144,000
15. Brandon Meyers — 109,500
16. Huck Seed — 93,500
17. Dan Fleyshman — 82,500
18. Justin Bonomo — 42,000

All the remaining players will be well positioned to gather maximum points from the first event to battle for the top 27 EPL money earners from the four main event series who will return February for the $1,000,000 League Championship freeroll.

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