Bill Perkins Leads Event After Day 1

Published on August 1st, 2019 11:56 pm EST

The Triton Million: A Helping Hand for Charity event ended up with a total of 54 entrants.

These 54 entrants all ponied up a buy-in of £1.05 million, of which £1 million went to the prize pool, while £50,000 went to various charities.

This meant that the total prize pool for the event ended up at £54 million, making it one of the biggest prize pools in the history of poker.

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The eventual winner of this event will take home a staggering £19 million, which works out to just less than $23 million USD.

The top 11 spots will pay out a minimum of £1.1 million. The runner-up will take home £11,670,000, while the third place finisher will walk away with £7.2 million.

The first place prize is so big, in fact, that any number of players in the tournament could surge to the top of the all-time tournament money list with a win on August 3rd.

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After the first full day of play, hedge fund manager Bill Perkins finished as the chip leader.

Here are the top five chip counts as of this moment:

Bill Perkins, 3,560,000
Timothy Adams, 3,095,000
Dan Smith, 2,810,000
Rui Cao, 2,700,000
Nick Petrangelo, 2,700,000

Some of the unlucky players that busted on Day 1 and ran through £1 million in record time included:

Tom Dwan
Fedor Holz
Daniel Cates
Haralabos Voulgaris

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Justin Bonomo, Tony G and Stephen Chidwick are just some of the notable names that are still alive heading into Day 2.

A new random table draw will take place before the start of Day 2 on Friday, with the final table going down on Saturday.

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Who will win the massive £19 million first place prize?

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