Wilbur Leads As Day 2 Closes
We had an action-packed night and early morning on Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Caesers Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. We started the day with 133 competitors remaining and over half of them got paid when the money bubble burst at 72 players. They just kept rolling on though, and after ten levels of play we are down to just 15 finalists. When play resumes tomorrow they’ll all be chasing chip leader Nicholas Wilbur, who bagged up 1,541,000 chips.
Scott Clements, William Reynolds, Dan O’Brien and James Carroll were some of the unfortunate players today who were unable to cash. Andreas Hoivold, Kathy Liebert, and Gavin Griffin all made the money but none were able to strike it big with an especially deep run.
Wilbur earned most of those chips when he got his 
all in preflop against the 
of Brandon Riha. In a pot worth over 1.4 million chips, it took until the river for Wilbur to catch up when the board ran out 
. After that, Wilbur used his big stack to chip up for the better part of a level and a half.
Wilbur’s run is especially impressive when you consider who he is looking down upon. Jeff Madsen, Dutch Boyd, Sean Getzwiller, and Kevin Calenzo are all still in contention and each have a very healthy stack. Madsen was one of the chip leaders virtually all day. He took a tough hit towards the end though when he was unable to catch up to the 
of Rellie Sigua holding 
. Madsen will resume play tomorrow with 917,000. Boyd was also consistently chipping up throughout the day before he hit a one-outter on the river against Sam McGrath. His luck didn’t last though as he was unable to fade the flush draw of Joe Kuether on the very last hand of play to finish with 726,000. Kuether is just shy of the chip lead after winning that hand holding 1,519,000.
Getzwiller bagged up 989,000 in large part due to his Jacks holding against the Ace-King of Brandon Riha and the King-Four of short stack Mark Kroon late in the night. Calenzo got most of his 695,000 chips towards the end as well when he was dealt pocket aces against the pocket queens of Joshua Pollock.
It was a fun day here at Caesers Palace but that only makes us more excited about what is in store for tomorrow. With such an impressive field and so much on the line, you won’t want to miss a single hand of tomorrow’s coverage, right here on PokerNews