Event 13 (Day 1C): Notables Everywhere You Look

Event 13 ($1,500 No Limit Hold'em Championship Event)

$500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool

Level 4 (Blinds 150/300/25)

Total Day 1C Entries: 116

Jake Schwartz (New York, NY)

Players are just returning from their first break of the day, sitting down to new blinds of 150/300/50 in Level 4.  There have been new tournament tables opening across the room seemingly every (20) minutes, and when you scan the room, there are familiar faces and big names abound.  One of the newest entrants into the tournament is Jake Schwartz (New York, NY).  Schwartz's resume, which boasts earnings over $1,200,000, is littered with cashes in many of the most prestigious events of the year.  While Jake's highlighting score came last year in the WPT $10,000 Five Diamond World Poker Classic (4th Place - $412,187), he enters today's tournament having cashed (8) times in this years WSOP, and just recently final tabled the WPT BestBut Bounty Scramble.  Schwartz headlines a list of notables in the field that includes:

Tom Gity

Zack Mullinex

Sheddy Siddiqui

Marsha Wolak

Brett Bader

Luis Santoni

Ido Ashkenazi

Glenn Becker

Ory Hen

Bernard Muhire

Maurice Hawkins