Junior Esperandio Leads WSOP Circuit Brazil Main Event on Day 2
The World Series of Poker Circuit Brazil Main Event, sponsored by partypoker LIVE, attracted a bumper field of 939 players to the Bienal Pavilion in Sao Paulo over the course of six qualifying days.
Only 385 of those players have made it through to Day 2 and none of them has more chips than Junior Esperandio, who has amassed a stack of 265,200 chips to claim the overall chip lead.
2017 WSOP Circuit Brazil Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Junior Esperandio | 265,200 |
| 2 | Rodrigo Gilioti | 249,500 |
| 3 | Jose Totel | 245,800 |
| 4 | Chico Buonarba | 219,200 |
| 5 | George Powidzer | 212,400 |
| 6 | Gabriele Costa | 197,700 |
| 7 | Joao Paulo Gomides | 194,800 |
| 8 | Marcelo Pires | 190,700 |
| 9 | Gilberto Amaral | 189,300 |
| 10 | Marcos Siqueira | 186,300 |
Esperandio will be hoping to at least repeat his exploits in the 888Live Festival Sao Paulo High Roller event back in September where he finished fourth for R$23,170 ($7,398). That marks his only cash recorded on his Hendon Mob page to date.
Hot on Esperandio��s heels is Rodrigo Gilioti on 249,500, with Jose Totel (245,800), Chico Buonarba (219,200) and George Powidzer (212,400) being the only other players to progress to Day 2 with more than 200,000 chips.
Also through to Day 2 are a trio of Team partypoker members. Canada��s Kristen Bicknell returns to the fray with a 101,200 stack, while Brazilian superstar Joao Simao has a 75,400 stack at his disposal; Simao has more than $6.1 million in online winnings and almost $850,000 from live poker tournaments.
The third and final of the partypoker-sponsored trio is Richard Dubini with 47,000 chips. Dubini currently occupies seventh place in the Argentina all-time money listings thanks to having won $1,554,799 from live events; $535,000 of that impressive sum was paid to Dubini for finishing 12th in the 2017 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.
Play resumes for Day 2 at 3:00 p.m. local time (UTC-03:00) on Oct. 2.
