After two qualifying heats in the $250,000 Guaranteed finale event of the 2015 Grand Slam of Poker, 39 players have managed to move on to the Day 2 finals on Tuesday. Leading the way is Steven Ayoub, who bagged up a massive lead with 739,000. His next closest opponent, Joe Lerman, has 531,000. Lerman is fresh off being part of a five way chop in the $400,000 Guaranteed event earlier this week, and he’s prime for another big run in this event!
Plenty of notables made it through yesterday, including Sam Goncuoglu, Brent Hart, John Hulett, Brian Bumpas, and Eric Bruskotter. If you want to add your name to the list below, you will have two chances to come out today at 12:30 and 5 PM, so don’t miss out!
| NAME | CHIP COUNT | NAME | CHIP COUNT | |||
| 1 | STEVEN AYOUB | 739,000 | 21 | ALEKSAND KHALFIN | 184,000 | |
| 2 | JOE LERMAN | 531,000 | 22 | LAURENCE HIGGENS | 175,000 | |
| 3 | SONNY MILLER | 424,000 | 23 | ERIC BRUSKOTTER | 164,000 | |
| 4 | TINOUSH GOLCHIN | 414,000 | 24 | MICHAEL WANG | 158,000 | |
| 5 | ANGELO AGUILUZ | 405,000 | 25 | THATCHER GLODE | 146,000 | |
| 6 | SAMEER ALIAMEDI | 396,000 | 26 | JAMES TILTON | 143,000 | |
| 7 | SAM GONCUOGLU | 376,000 | 27 | ERIKA WEINSTEIN | 141,000 | |
| 8 | BRENT HART | 374,000 | 28 | JERRY VARON | 136,000 | |
| 9 | JOHN HULETT | 374,000 | 29 | MICHAEL REYES | 121,000 | |
| 10 | SAFIYA UMEROVA | 359,000 | 30 | ANH NGUYEN | 120,000 | |
| 11 | MOSHE MANZUR | 329,000 | 31 | MASSOUMEH KHARAZMI | 96,000 | |
| 12 | NAZAR TSATURYAN | 320,000 | 32 | PRASHRAY RAI | 94,000 | |
| 13 | AMIT SEHGAL | 316,000 | 33 | KRISTIAN LACSON | 92,000 | |
| 14 | JOSEPH DICKSTEIN | 294,000 | 34 | MARK HAMILTON | 91,000 | |
| 15 | BRIAN BUMPAS | 284,000 | 35 | MAURICE ARCHELLE | 83,000 | |
| 16 | ANTHONY PITESA | 264,000 | 36 | ERIC FENZKE | 82,000 | |
| 17 | JAMES FREITAG | 252000 | 37 | ROSS TESSER | 79,000 | |
| 18 | CLIFFORD SCHUMACHER | 206,000 | 38 | HARY HARRAKA | 66,000 | |
| 19 | BYUNG LEE | 192,000 | 39 | JOSE CONTRERAS | 40,000 | |
| 20 | ALLEN MITTELMAN | 187,000 |