2008 World Series of Poker

Eli Elezra Leads as 70 Players Begin Day 2 Action; Seat Assignments Confirmed

Eli Elezra rode a couple of huge pots in the last levels of the first day to move into Day 2 of the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event #2) as the chip leader. Elezra's 302,900 chips were over 50,000 ahead of second-place Amit Makhija's 251,100, though seven other players also finished the opening day of action over the 200,000 chip mark.

Here are the Day 2 seating assignments for the event, with seat and table listings, player names and chip counts:

Table 4 (Table-Seat, Player, Chips):
04-01 Michael Pesek 41,000
04-02 Grant Lang 125,500
04-03 Chris Ferguson 101,700
04-04 Matthew Graham 37,000
04-05 Andy Bloch 113,100
04-06 John Kabbaj 66,900
04-07 Ben Sprengers 153,700
04-08 Luke Staudenmaier 39,700
04-09 Andew Scott 48,200

Table 5:
05-01 Anna Wroblewski 34,400
05-02 Nikolay Evdakov 206,200
05-03 Tommy Vinas 60,400
05-06 Humberto Brenes 103,300
05-06 Al Adler 18,900
05-07 Lyle Berman 103,200
05-08 James Gorham 60,300
05-09 Nenad Medic 240,200

Table 8:
08-01 Andreas Krause 89,200
08-02 Rolf Slotboom 37,100
08-03 Josh Egan 40,800
08-04 Jason DeWitt 59,100
08-05 Ryan Young 99,300
08-06 Darryl Ronconi 44,800
08-07 Phil Laak 169,000
08-08 Jerri Thomas 32,700
08-09 Paul Zuzelo 60,300

Table 9:
09-01 David Peters 45,000
09-02 David Benyamine 107,200
09-03 Beth Shak 38,600
09-04 Raphael Zimmerman 168,800
09-05 David Benefield 131,900
09-06 Patrik Antonius 236,300
09-07 Joseph Sanders 131,000
09-08 Allen Kessler 47,700
09-09 Joe Patrick 50,000

Table 10:
10-01 David Bach 204,100
10-02 Amit Makhija 251,100
10-03 Richard Toth 163,400
10-04 Dustin Woolf 49,700
10-05 Hasan Habib 25,800
10-06 Anthony Licastro 211,000
10-07 Chris Bell 141,000
10-09 Jennifer Harman 28,700

Table 11:
11-01 Greg Hopkins 52,100
11-02 Clark Hamagami 38,600
11-03 Bill Chen 99,200
11-04 Ted Lawson 40,000
11-05 Emad Tahtouh 73,600
11-06 Kazuki Ikeuchi 88,000
11-07 Tuan Le 190,000
11-08 John Patgorski 117,100
11-09 Mats Rahmn 22,000

Table 12:
12-01 David Stroj 160,000
12-02 Shawn Keller 112,100
12-03 Mark Newhouse 116,000
12-04 Bill O'Connor 49,000
12-05 Marco Johnson 93,000
12-06 Mike Sexton 76,000
12-07 Jeremiah Vinsant 42,300
12-08 Vivek Rajkumar 194,000
12-09 Eli Elezra 302,900

Table 13:
13-01 Kathy Liebert 55,500
13-02 Alexander Kostritsyn 144,000
13-03 Robert Zipf 12,300
13-04 Chuck Pacheco 191,600
13-05 Chris Gildone 94,400
13-06 Justin Newton 233,000
13-07 Mike Sowers 216,700
13-08 Michael Martin 28,000
13-09 Mario Silvestri III 34,500

Action resumes at 2pm in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship. Join us this afternoon for all the latest updates.