Day 2, We Love You
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Good afternoon and welcome back to the Rio where the PLO8 is, if not quite on the verge of restarting, then at least getting towards there.
Yesterday the massive field of 284 - remember, this tournament got 198 runners last year - was chopped, quartered, three-quartered and ultimately whittled down to 130. We thought that Steve Chanthabouasy was in the lead on 88,000 at the end of the night, but as it turns out both James "Flushy" Dempsey (88,900) and Colin Burton (91,700) snuck ahead of him in the last hand or two of the night.
Plenty of big names remain in this, including Mike Matusow, Annie Duke, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott and Phil Hellmuth. Richard Ashby is also worthy of special mention - although he spent most of yesterday playing the $10,000 HORSE final (he came second) he managed to keep his stack in this tournament going too, and he comes back today with 17,800, a little over the starting stack.
Play is due to resume at 3pm PT, in just under an hour. Watch this space.