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Phil Hellmuth is the chip leader heading into final day of the WSOP $1,500 HORSE event. (Bodog Beat Image).

The WSOP $1,5000 HORSE event opened yesterday with a whopping field of 803 players. While most of the top poker pros have been eliminated, the Poker Brat, Phil Hellmuth, ended the day as the chip leader.

Hellmuth will be gunning for his record breaking 12th WSOP bracelet which would incidentally also be his first in a non Holdem event. The first place payout of $256,412 is probably a very minor concern for the WSOP record holder who is probably much more interested in expanding his WSOP bracelet lead over poker legends Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson.

The 20 remaining players will get back on the WSOP HORSE at 3pm and will supposedly play down to a winner tonight. We say supposedly because we expect that to take a very, very long time.

Here are the top five chip stacks heading into Day 2: Phil Hellmuth – 287,500, James Schaaf – 236,500, Art Young – 175,000, Victor Ramdin – 158,500, Matt Grapenthien – 151,000.

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