Daniel Negreanu has been running super hot with starting hands today in this Stud championship. He's been rolled up -- starting with three of a kind -- four or five times. On one of the last hands of the night, Negreanu started rolled up again, this time with jacks. He made four jacks by fifth street. Even better for Negreanu, David Grey started with rolled up sixes and also made quads. The two players put in four bets on the river, where Grey finally saw the bad news. It was a fitting end to the day for Negreanu. He'll bring a very healthy stack back tomorrow, although he won't be the leader.
As was predicted, tonight's event was a star-studded one, with many of poker's top names venturing out for a chance to claim the Seven Card Stud Championship.
As it tends to go with limit poker, it took a while for meaningful swings to occur. But when the stakes got high enough we started to see some action transpire. Tom Dwan, Erick Lindgren, Cyndy Violette and Matt Hawrilenko all made earlier exits than they would have preferred and a number of others followed.
Going into Day 2 our leader is Michael Mizrachi with 191,900. However, Vladimir Schmelev, his heads-up opponent from the $50,000 Players' Championship is right trailing closely with 180,000. We're sure their egos and bank accounts will be up for a rematch. Last year's winner, Freddie Ellis, is staying alive with 89,000, and last year's runner up, Eric Drache, is sitting on 57,000.
Join us for coverage from the Amazon Room at 3:00 tomorrow as our 88 remaining players work towards that elusive final table.
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