Vor wenigen Minuten ging der erste Tag beim $500 SALUTE TO WARRIOS No-Limit Hold’em Turnier zu Ende. Bei der Premiere von diesem Event, wobei $40 von jedem Buy-In an die United Services Organization (USO), einer Chartity Organisation die sich um Veteranen der US-Streitkräfte kümmert, kauften sich stolze 1.723 Spieler ein. Am Ende von Tag 1 sind noch 267 im Rennen um den Titel, als einer der Big Stacks ist auch noch der in Österreich lebende Israeli Eyal Bensimhon mit 329.000 mit von der Partie.
Als Chipleader beendete der Franzose Dominique Terzian mit 801.000 Chips den Tag, gefolgt von Garry Stevenssmith mit 572.000 Chips und den US-Amerikaner Michael Nosek.
Insgesamt warten $723.660 im Preispool und der Sieger darf neben dem obligatorischen Bracelet einen Scheck in Höhe von $121.161 mit nach Hause nehmen.
Anbei die Chipcounts für Tag 2:
| Platz | Spieler | Chips (k) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dominique Terzian | 801 |
| 2 | Garry Stevenssmith | 572 |
| 3 | Michael Nosek | 517 |
| 4 | Jordan Knackstedt | 480.5 |
| 5 | Stanislav Angelov | 391 |
| 6 | Fred Li | 388 |
| 7 | Chad Gravenor | 375.5 |
| 8 | Ben Yu | 370.5 |
| 9 | Jacky Wong | 360 |
| 10 | Yifan Zheng | 354.5 |
| 11 | Than Huynh | 344 |
| 12 | Robert Defabrizio | 340.5 |
| 13 | Alex Scattareggia | 335.5 |
| 14 | Pedro Padilha | 332.5 |
| 15 | Eyal Bensimhon | 329 |
| 16 | Libo Zhu | 318 |
| 17 | Adam Demersseman | 318 |
| 18 | Dean Yoon | 316 |
| 19 | Gregory Brodeur | 314 |
| 20 | Donald Nimneh | 310 |
| 21 | Aditya Systla | 310 |
| 22 | David Schwartz | 308 |
| 23 | Michael Moncek | 306.5 |
| 24 | Mike Sexton | 300 |
| 25 | Thom Saba | 300 |
| 26 | Robert Ludwig | 298.5 |
| 27 | Mehrdad Ghiasvand | 294.5 |
| 28 | Taehyung Kim | 294.5 |
| 29 | Ashish Gupta | 289 |
| 30 | Stefano Parise | 286 |
| 31 | James Collins | 282.5 |
| 32 | Steve Hohn | 281 |
| 33 | William Shanks | 277 |
| 34 | Shannon Englehart | 274 |
| 35 | Peter Mercini | 265 |
| 36 | Adel Naoun | 264.5 |
| 37 | Benjamin Teng | 263.5 |
| 38 | Orlin Omlid | 261.5 |
| 39 | John Lyons | 260 |
| 40 | Ryan Dodson | 258 |
| 41 | Robert Dodson | 248 |
| 42 | Lu Chen | 247 |
| 43 | Taylor Carroll | 247 |
| 44 | Jurgen Bluthgen | 245.5 |
| 45 | Montague Schneider | 241.5 |
| 46 | Wooseok Kim | 238.5 |
| 47 | Kimlong Lav | 234.5 |
| 48 | Hideki Izutsu | 231.5 |
| 49 | Jumma Tomiyama | 229.5 |
| 50 | Gauthier Abribat | 226 |
| 51 | George King | 223.5 |
| 52 | Ramon Kropmanns | 220 |
| 53 | Paris Heard | 220 |
| 54 | David Petrus | 219 |
| 55 | Brian Schmitt | 217 |
| 56 | Andrew Ransom | 216.5 |
| 57 | Eugene Tung | 214 |
| 58 | Brett Reiss | 211.5 |
| 59 | Alexey Grabarnik | 211 |
| 60 | Naseem Kteily | 210 |
| 61 | Brian Horwitz | 210 |
| 62 | Vincent Karbassioun | 209.5 |
| 63 | Brenna Warren | 208 |
| 64 | Colman Roy | 206 |
| 65 | Patrick Nichols | 204.5 |
| 66 | Brian Pachciarz | 202 |
| 67 | El-Rais Mohamad | 202 |
| 68 | Alessandro Migliuolo | 200 |
| 69 | Idan Raz | 199 |
| 70 | James Alvarez | 199 |
| 71 | Jonathan Hales | 197 |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | Dwight Lemoine | 196 |
| 74 | David Oppenheim | 193.5 |
| 75 | Tim West | 192.5 |
| 76 | Luiz Ferreira | 192 |
| 77 | David Hengen | 191 |
| 78 | Daniel Lawrence | 190 |
| 79 | Yosuke Sekiya | 188.5 |
| 80 | Robin Stark | 188 |
| 81 | Van Landrum | 188 |
| 82 | Arkadiy Tsinis | 187.5 |
| 83 | Jose Annaloro | 181 |
| 84 | David Hughes | 178.5 |
| 85 | Cary Sallee | 178 |
| 86 | Jeffrey Copeland | 176.5 |
| 87 | Cody Moncur | 176 |
| 88 | David Dao | 175 |
| 89 | Baret Grigorian | 174 |
| 90 | Joaquim Junior | 173.5 |
| 91 | Sangyeon Hwang | 173 |
| 92 | Dmitri Williams | 172.5 |
| 93 | Clint Wilcox | 172.5 |
| 94 | Chun Kwok | 171 |
| 95 | Aaron Thivyanathan | 168 |
| 96 | Daijiro Tomoto | 167.5 |
| 97 | Jaswinder Sanghera | 167 |
| 98 | David Lebhar | 165.5 |
| 99 | Luke Nicholls | 165.5 |
| 100 | Ryan Baybayan | 164 |
| 101 | Robert Cheung | 164 |
| 102 | Brad Albrinck | 164 |
| 103 | Douglas Tallman | 160 |
| 104 | Robert Kwon | 160 |
| 105 | Joseph Mcvety | 159.5 |
| 106 | Fiodor Martino | 158 |
| 107 | Richard Blackburn | 157.5 |
| 108 | Moshe Cohen | 155.5 |
| 109 | Alan Hearn | 155.5 |
| 110 | Steven Payten | 153.5 |
| 111 | George Vigelette | 150 |
| 112 | Barry Jacobs | 148 |
| 113 | Andrew Sanft | 148 |
| 114 | Darren Martin | 148 |
| 115 | Jesse Kertland | 148 |
| 116 | Andres Molina | 147 |
| 117 | Gregory Kolo | 147 |
| 118 | Brian Shewski | 146.5 |
| 119 | Gerald Taylor | 144 |
| 120 | Graeme Wright | 141 |
| 121 | Sean Fitzpatrick | 139.5 |
| 122 | Terry Gillespie | 139.5 |
| 123 | Lorena Chiquillo | 139 |
| 124 | Michael Vik | 138.5 |
| 125 | John Iemolo | 138 |
| 126 | Ardys Reed | 138 |
| 127 | Lisa Fong | 137.5 |
| 128 | Aaron Johnson (MN) | 137.5 |
| 129 | Marco Sibillino | 136.5 |
| 130 | Martin Zamani | 136 |
| 131 | Richard Langdon | 134.5 |
| 132 | Satoshi Tanaka | 134 |
| 133 | Robert Coombs | 134 |
| 134 | Bolivar Palacios | 134 |
| 135 | Ryan Hulleman | 133 |
| 136 | Devin Wunschel | 133 |
| 137 | Weiyi Zhang | 131.5 |
| 138 | Richard Glanzer | 131 |
| 139 | Vinny Pahuja | 129.5 |
| 140 | Matthew Cardoza | 129 |
| 141 | Mark Osborne | 127 |
| 142 | Blair Miller | 126.5 |
| 143 | Johnny Dudley | 126.5 |
| 144 | Dennis Premmanee | 125.5 |
| 145 | Renji Mao | 125.5 |
| 146 | Steven Krasner | 125 |
| 147 | Peter Forsstrom | 124.5 |
| 148 | Scott Woods | 124 |
| 149 | Dominick Giovanniello | 124 |
| 150 | Hirotaka Nakanishi | 124 |
| 151 | Sean Troha | 124 |
| 152 | Henry So | 123 |
| 153 | Nicholas Tamburo | 123 |
| 154 | Leo Whitt | 122 |
| 155 | Chen Feng Wen | 121 |
| 156 | DJ MacKinnon | 121 |
| 157 | Mark Hall | 120 |
| 158 | Jeanmarc Dijoux | 117 |
| 159 | Yotam Shmuelov | 117 |
| 160 | Shunsuke Tsujii | 116.5 |
| 161 | John Barnes | 116.5 |
| 162 | Angelo Peralta | 116 |
| 163 | Dean Baranowski | 115.5 |
| 164 | Brandon Frazier | 115 |
| 165 | Lei Zhou | 110 |
| 166 | Dustin Bryan | 110 |
| 167 | Roberto Bonilla Rivera | 109.5 |
| 168 | Hanh Mai | 108 |
| 169 | Herman Washington | 108 |
| 170 | Joseph Labiosa | 107.5 |
| 171 | Nathan Duffy | 107.5 |
| 172 | Nicholas Stowell | 106.5 |
| 173 | Josef Kacherl | 106.5 |
| 174 | Andrew Fields | 104 |
| 175 | Christopher Canan | 103 |
| 176 | Charles Thomas | 103 |
| 177 | Marko Fontanos | 102.5 |
| 178 | Michael Cunningham | 102 |
| 179 | Wei Chen | 100 |
| 180 | Christopher Lau | 99.5 |
| 181 | Frantisek Zacek | 99 |
| 182 | Patrick Watts | 98.5 |
| 183 | Mohamed Aissani | 98 |
| 184 | Kenroy Thompson | 97.5 |
| 185 | Tai Tran | 97.5 |
| 186 | Dac Nguyen | 96 |
| 187 | Adam Kievman | 96 |
| 188 | George Niedzwicki | 95.5 |
| 189 | Federico Ottenio | 94.5 |
| 190 | Denis Vladimirov | 93 |
| 191 | Danny Riley | 92.5 |
| 192 | Travis Tachibana | 92 |
| 193 | Ray Jones | 91.5 |
| 194 | David Plastik | 91 |
| 195 | Thomas Hanes | 91 |
| 196 | David Swanson | 90.5 |
| 197 | Uriah Grossglauser | 89 |
| 198 | Andre Awane | 88 |
| 199 | Robert Lopes | 87 |
| 200 | Jason Waugh | 86.5 |
| 201 | Giovanni Ventullo | 86 |
| 202 | Richard Ali | 86 |
| 203 | Corbin Avery | 85.5 |
| 204 | Claude McGuff | 85.5 |
| 205 | Yossi Azulay | 85.5 |
| 206 | Loic Dobrigna | 85.5 |
| 207 | Juan Diego Valladares | 85 |
| 208 | Charles Hanson | 85 |
| 209 | Albert Franklin Jr | 85 |
| 210 | Richard Hendricks | 84.5 |
| 211 | David Tueffel | 84.5 |
| 212 | Kulwant Singh | 83.5 |
| 213 | Marcos Da Silva | 83.5 |
| 214 | Terry Guess | 83 |
| 215 | Ross Ward | 83 |
| 216 | David Gonzalez | 82.5 |
| 217 | Daniel Jennings | 81.5 |
| 218 | Fulvio Sansanelli | 81 |
| 219 | Rudijanto Soetikno | 80 |
| 220 | Maristela Galafassi Arantes | 80 |
| 221 | Daniel Dealmeida | 80 |
| 222 | Claudette Nannini | 78.5 |
| 223 | Caufman Talley | 77 |
| 224 | Philipp Caranica | 77 |
| 225 | Kenneth Plecha | 76 |
| 226 | Dong Guo | 75 |
| 227 | Kevin Sickels | 75 |
| 228 | Robert Bennett | 74.5 |
| 229 | Daniel DaConti | 74 |
| 230 | Derek Schroeder | 73.5 |
| 231 | Jonathan Walker | 73.5 |
| 232 | Sachidananda Sivakumar | 70 |
| 233 | Michael Wolff | 70 |
| 234 | Liina Vark | 68 |
| 235 | Steven Baysa | 67.5 |
| 236 | Kristopher Bradshaw | 67 |
| 237 | Alexander Matveev | 66 |
| 238 | Gian Gelpi | 65.5 |
| 239 | Jason Brauda | 65.5 |
| 240 | Jeffrey Pao | 65 |
| 241 | Michael Woznicki | 65 |
| 242 | Jesus Sanchez | 64 |
| 243 | Lawrence Furie | 63.5 |
| 244 | Michael Chan | 62.5 |
| 245 | Jeremiah Miesen | 62 |
| 246 | Yuho Iwata | 61.5 |
| 247 | David Nunez | 61 |
| 248 | Senthil Vitaranyam | 61 |
| 249 | Reda Bouaboula | 61 |
| 250 | Kentaro Ihara | 60 |
| 251 | Danny Callahan | 58.5 |
| 252 | Paul Pritchett | 57.5 |
| 253 | ||
| 254 | Stephen Martin | 56.5 |
| 255 | John DeFabis | 56.5 |
| 256 | Chris Kealy | 56 |
| 257 | Shigeji Kusakabe | 55.5 |
| 258 | Yoshiya Agata | 55 |
| 259 | Manish Bhargava | 54 |
| 260 | Kenneth Morrison | 53.5 |
| 261 | ||
| 262 | Benjamin Clayborn | 53 |
| 263 | Robert Barletta | 51 |
| 264 | Dylan Hortin | 50.5 |
| 265 | Mickael Athias | 50 |
| 266 | Matthew Diethelm | 50 |
| 267 | Roy Shimada | 48 |
| 268 | John Lyerly | 47 |
| 269 | Wayne Carlson | 47 |
| 270 | Michael Raynor | 43.5 |
| 271 | Shuichi Hiratsuka | 43.5 |
| 272 | Anthony Gonnet | 42.5 |
| 273 | Kasper Mellanen | 42.5 |
| 274 | Chelsea Proctor | 42 |
| 275 | Christian Vandollen | 39.5 |
| 276 | Douglas Hunichen | 38.5 |
| 277 | Samuel Bantock | 38 |
| 278 | Lap Lee | 37 |
| 279 | Frank Cesena | 36.5 |
| 280 | Gerald Trass | 33 |
| 281 | Robert Song | 28.5 |
| 282 | Karaminder Dhillon | 11.5 |
| 283 | Ronald Guanlao | 11.5 |
| 284 | Joseph Fritz | 6.5 |
| 285 | David Macfarlane | 4.5 |
| 286 | Romain Kowalczyk | 1 |
| 287 | Ray Cornelius | 1 |
| 288 | Moshe Gavrieli | 1 |
| 289 | James Kasin | 1 |
| 290 | Susan Faber | 1 |
