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Joe McKeehen, the 2015 WSOP Main Event champion enters Sunday's US Poker Open Event #3 final table with the chip lead.

Jake Daniels took down the first event of the 2021 US Poker Open at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas on Friday afternoon.

The 95 entries in the opening event established a new U.S. Poker Open record.

Event Recap There were 47 players already registered when the tournament began, a number that grew steadily to its total of 131 throughout the registration period. By the time registration ended, only around 35 players remained, and that number quickly dropped to 25 by the third break of the night. Twenty-five minutes later, the bubble burst when "freebrit" saw their pocket aces cracked by the pocket eights of MICOOP Event #1 champion "PowerRanges" after an eight appeared on the river, leaving the 19 remaining players all set to earn a payday of some sort. "PowerRanges" was the chip leader th...

Not surprisingly, players flocked to the virtual tables from the get-go. Kyle “louieluck” Thompson was one such player, opting to fire up $10 buy-in tournaments on Day 1. “That seemed to be where everyone was at, over 200 entries,” Thompson told PokerNews. “The structure was good and enough playable stacks late even with just starting at 5k. The software seems good with no issues and easy to navigate.” Kerry Moore was also participating in those same games. He said, “I played for about four hours yesterday. The gameplay was seamless playing on my laptop. I...