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2022 WSOP: Amnon Filippi Leading Day 2 Of $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

Day 2 of Event #7: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better in the 2022 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) concluded with 26 survivors in contention. Amnon Filippi is leading with 3,000,000 chips. Right after him is Paul Zappulla who has 2,090,000 chips at his disposal. The final 26 contenders finished bagging and tagging at the end of Day 2 and will return to play at 3 PM (3.30 AM IST, Monday) the following day. Once Day 3 begins it would be interesting to see how the play unfolds to ultimately crown a winner at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas.

Filippi is a New York-based poker player. As per Hendon Mob, he is on the 37th spot in New York, USA’s all-time money list. This player has $3,401,694 in total live earnings. Filippi’s biggest live cash came when he finished fourth in the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E event at the 2007 WSOP for $586,080. Coming back to the current Omaha game, the play for Day 2 concluded at Level 26 when the blinds were 40,000/80,000. 

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Check out the chip counts at the end of Day 2:

Rank	Player	Chips
1	Amnon Filippi	3,000,000
2	Paul Zappulla	2,090,000
3	James Chen	1,820000
4	Matt Glantz	1,675,000
5	Van Law	1,630,000
6	Brian Nichols	1,600,000
7	Rami Boukai	1,305,000
8	Ronan Nally	1,295,000
9	Bradley Smith	1,175,000
10	Andrew Brown	1,175,000
11	Anil Jivani	1,140,000
12	Matt Vengrin	1,139,000
13	Mel Judah	1,135,000
14	Murilo Figueredo	1,030,000
15	Kosei Ichinose	955,000
16	Andy Laikin	820,000
17	David Funkhouser	685,000
18	Ziyuan Wang	625,000
19	Vitaliy Mikhov	485,000
20	Kyung Lee	440,000
21	Travis Pine	440,000
22	Anthony Piazza	360,000
23	Chris Bell	320,000
24	Terry Mackie	275,000
25	K.U. Davis	255,000
26	Hoyt Verner	95,000

At the end of Day 1 of the event, Yehuda Buchalter was the chip lead with 261,500 chips. Amnon Filippi was the second chip lead with a stack of 205,000 chips. While he was leading at the end of Day 1 he could not make it to the top 26 on Day 2. This event had a prize pool of $1,451,154 and several notables were grinding in this event, namely Van Law, David Flores, Phil Hellmuth, Shaun Deeb and Benny Glaser.

The top 164 players will get paid and the min-cash for this tourney is set at $2,400. The player who ships this event can take home a massive $252,718 in prize money. This event attracted a record-breaking 1,087 entries in total while a total of 413 entries made it to Day 2.

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