Last Chance to Make Day 2
Welcome back to our coverage of the2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at River Rock Casino! Today will be the last opportunity for players to take a stack into play for Day 2. Yesterday's play saw 352 players come out for Day 1b and at the end of the day only 87 remained. Topping the leader board so far is Jingjing Liu who finished yesterday with a stack of 266,000. With Day 1c expected to have the largest player turnout we'll know by the end of the night if anyone can overtake her place and become the overall chip leader going into Day 2.
Not far behind Liu is Day 1a chipleader Norman Overdijk who is sporting a stack of 242,000. Other notable names to progress from the first two starting flights include Greg Mueller (180,300), Noah Vaillancourt (172,100), Ashkan Razavi (155,400), Sandra Wong (126,700), Scott Stanko (120,000), and Matt Jarvis (94,600),
Yesterday's play saw a slew of notable names come to the felt for the first time only to find themselves without any chips by the end of the day. David "Doc" Sands, Gavin Smith, Charlie Coultas, Shawn Buchanan, Terrence Chan, and Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome are just a handful of those players. Others saw Day 1b as their chance to fire a second bullet in this tournament. Unfortunately for several known names including Scott Clements, Matt Affleck, Robert Cheung, Laurence Grondin, Sean Giesbrecht, and Jason Koon, this meant a second trip to the rail.
Players will once again play 15 40-minute levels today with a 45-minute dinner break after nine levels. We expect to see some solid play today especially from those who are firing a third bullet. Be sure to stay tuned as we bring you all of the latest updates from the tournament floor!