2016 WSOP Day 2: Colossus II Begins and an Employees Event Champ is Crowned

The 2016 World Series of Poker continued on Thursday with the start of the first open bracelet event of the summer and the conclusion of the $565 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em tournament.

The convention center at the Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel and Casino was filled almost to the brim with bracelet hunters as the first two of six starting flights for the $565 Colossus II No-Limit Hold’em drew more than 5,400 entries, putting the event on pace to match the record 22,374 entries the inaugural Colossus drew in 2015.

In the meantime, a Caesars Palace sports book employee ruled the Amazon Room roost, capturing the first WSOP bracelet of the summer in the Employees Event finale.

First Two Colossus II Flights Draw 5,402

The first of six starting flights for Event #2: $565 Colossus II No-Limit Hold’em drew 3,249 players to the Rio on Thursday morning.

By the time the scheduled 18 levels were through, just 121 players remained with Spaniard Hector Alvarez in the lead on a stack of 450,000 chips.

A change to the payouts in this year’s event will see 15 percent of each Colossus flight make the money before the opening flights are through, which meant the top 488 players in this first flight would cash.

2009 WSOP Main Event champ Joe Cada and two-time 2015 WSOP bracelet winner Max Pescatori were among those who busted in the money in this flight.

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