We've lost a handful of short stacks already during the first 15 minutes of action today, Kristina Holst, Anthony Spinella, and Jeff Shulman among them.
Right now, 168 players currently remain, which means a bit less than half of those still with chips -- 78 -- will be making the money later today.
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When Tim Kahlmeyer opened his bag a few minutes ago, he was sure that he didn't have enough chips. He cut them out, counted them, rinsed, and repeated.
"You put them in the bag last night, right?" a floorperson asked him.
Kahlmeyer nodded, then counted again.
"Oh," he blurted. "It's right."
The floorperson left abruptly.
We'll give Kahlmeyer a pass this time.
As soon as the cards were in the air, we heard a dealer shout, "Spill on 366!"
Upon reaching the table, we saw a large, brown puddle on the ground coming from a Starbucks bag underneath Matt Vengrin's seat.
"I'm making mess over here, Chris," Vengrin called to a passing floorman.
We're not sure what will be done about the mocha mess, but for now the players will have to battle through the cocoa aroma, and try not to slip on the wet spot.
Russell Carson opened with a raise to 2,200 from the hijack seat and it folded back to Jordan Young in the big blind. Young paused, then announced he was reraising all in, and Carson called quickly, committing his entire stack of 18,400.
Young showed 
while Carson was hoping his 
would hold. The five community cards came 
, and Carson has bumped up to 39,400. Young meanwhile slips to 9,000.
Neil Willerson has been eliminated in the first few minutes of play today. He moved all in preflop with 
and was called by Anthony Gregg with 
.
The board ran out 
and Willerson was sent to the rail. Gregg now has close to 200,000 in chips.
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event No. 40, the $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event!
We saw a number of familiar faces, many known for their prowess at the tables, among the 732 who came out for yesterday's Day 1. And a lot of those tough, accomplished players will be returning today.
2010 WSOP November Niner Matt Jarvis comes back to the biggest stack, having crossed the 300,000-chip mark at the end of play on Thursday. He's followed closely by Randy Dorfman, with Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Todd both sitting nearby in the top ten. A total of 172 remain, with the top 78 finishers making the cash. (See the complete Day 2 table draw below.)
We're a little over an hour away from the start of Day 2, set to begin in the Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino at 2:30 p.m. Vegas time. Come back then to see who can make it through today's ten levels to get closer to that final six-handed table where over $2 million of the event's $3.44 million prize pool awaits.
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 344 | 1 | James Sowers | 76,800 |
| 344 | 2 | William Klein | 34,200 |
| 344 | 3 | McLean Karr | 110,600 |
| 344 | 4 | Joshua Bergman | 88,300 |
| 344 | 5 | Cary Katz | 101,500 |
| 344 | 6 | Kevin Iacofano | 51,500 |
| 345 | 1 | Mario Silvestri | 39,300 |
| 345 | 2 | Samad Rashid | 65,200 |
| 345 | 3 | Freddy Deeb | 11,200 |
| 345 | 4 | Dan Santoro | 146,400 |
| 345 | 5 | George Mcdonald | 25,100 |
| 346 | 1 | Scott Zakheim | 15,100 |
| 346 | 2 | Elliott Peterman | 46,300 |
| 346 | 3 | Daniel Hirleman | 81,100 |
| 346 | 4 | Jason Mo | 46,500 |
| 346 | 6 | Alex Kamberis | 23,400 |
| 347 | 1 | Wesley Pantling | 71,300 |
| 347 | 2 | Justin Filtz | 114,000 |
| 347 | 3 | Wayne Boyd | 34,900 |
| 347 | 4 | Tuan Le | 130,000 |
| 347 | 5 | Matt Hawrilenko | 65,800 |
| 347 | 6 | William Higgins | 43,800 |
| 349 | 1 | Eugene Todd | 147,500 |
| 349 | 2 | Liv Boeree | 13,800 |
| 349 | 3 | Angel Guillen | 45,300 |
| 349 | 4 | Marco Johnson | 31,800 |
| 349 | 5 | Nicholas Harvalis | 80,900 |
| 349 | 6 | Leo Wolpert | 28,300 |
| 350 | 1 | Robert Fett | 28,400 |
| 350 | 2 | Chris Moorman | 22,900 |
| 350 | 3 | Nathaniel Wachtel | 21,300 |
| 350 | 4 | Tommy Chen | 88,900 |
| 350 | 5 | David Sands | 55,500 |
| 350 | 6 | Bryan Piccioli | 124,100 |
| 351 | 1 | Rahim Tadjsaadat | 19,800 |
| 351 | 2 | Dan O'Brien | 116,500 |
| 351 | 3 | Tim West | 11,900 |
| 351 | 4 | Patrick Carron | 18,400 |
| 351 | 6 | Seth Fischer | 20,900 |
| 352 | 1 | Vanessa Rousso | 37,100 |
| 352 | 2 | David Ulliott | 77,000 |
| 352 | 3 | Anthony Ruberto | 86,100 |
| 352 | 5 | Justin Young | 19,000 |
| 352 | 6 | Oleksii Kovalchuk | 92,500 |
| 353 | 1 | Kevin Song | 39,700 |
| 353 | 2 | Jim McManus | 11,800 |
| 353 | 3 | Haralabos Voulgaris | 89,200 |
| 353 | 4 | Hafiz Khan | 85,900 |
| 353 | 5 | Dmitry Vitkind | 45,000 |
| 353 | 6 | Duane Blanchard | 60,400 |
| 354 | 1 | Christopher Hunichen | 80,700 |
| 354 | 2 | Ryan Fair | 92,700 |
| 354 | 3 | John Andress | 89,600 |
| 354 | 4 | Simon Watt | 85,700 |
| 354 | 5 | Valdemar Kwaysser | 61,700 |
| 354 | 6 | Michael Rocco | 74,200 |
| 355 | 1 | Craig Boyd | 49,300 |
| 355 | 2 | Olivier Busquet | 53,100 |
| 355 | 3 | Joseph Serock | 76,900 |
| 355 | 4 | David Fox | 73,300 |
| 355 | 5 | Raphael Kroll | 174,500 |
| 355 | 6 | Robert Merulla | 42,000 |
| 356 | 1 | Grayson Ramage | 53,300 |
| 356 | 2 | Scott Lipshutz | 47,300 |
| 356 | 3 | Lisa Hamilton | 17,400 |
| 356 | 4 | Aaron Kaiser | 49,800 |
| 356 | 5 | Takuya Suzuki | 17,400 |
| 356 | 6 | Patrick Miles | 36,800 |
| 357 | 2 | Charles Brizius | 62,000 |
| 357 | 3 | Nick Schulman | 69,700 |
| 357 | 4 | Massimiliano Martinez | 116,200 |
| 357 | 5 | Bryan Leskowitz | 42,500 |
| 357 | 6 | Jacob Schindler | 109,600 |
| 358 | 1 | Filipp Khavin | 118,800 |
| 358 | 2 | Kelvin Lee | 67,500 |
| 358 | 3 | Jason DeWitt | 38,600 |
| 358 | 4 | Jason Koon | 55,200 |
| 358 | 5 | Thomas Bentham | 45,400 |
| 358 | 6 | Jeff Shulman | 11,200 |
| 359 | 1 | Tyler Smith | 68,700 |
| 359 | 2 | Owen Crowe | 52,000 |
| 359 | 3 | Daniel Negreanu | 162,600 |
| 359 | 4 | Benjamin May | 13,200 |
| 359 | 5 | Daniel Tafur | 26,100 |
| 359 | 6 | Zach Clark | 22,200 |
| 360 | 1 | Miller Dao | 54,300 |
| 360 | 2 | Tony Dunst | 34,600 |
| 360 | 3 | Manuel Bevand | 25,800 |
| 360 | 4 | Eddie Blumenthal | 46,100 |
| 360 | 5 | Faraz Jaka | 84,300 |
| 360 | 6 | Dan Martin | 68,300 |
| 361 | 1 | Michael Scarborough | 12,200 |
| 361 | 2 | Madison Bergeron | 40,200 |
| 361 | 3 | Tyler Kenney | 41,200 |
| 361 | 4 | Tony Burton | 52,400 |
| 361 | 5 | Dylan Wilkerson | 31,900 |
| 361 | 6 | Martins Adeniya | 61,500 |
| 362 | 1 | Grzegorz Derkowski | 78,500 |
| 362 | 2 | Ryan Olisar | 127,200 |
| 362 | 3 | Jack Ellwood | 35,200 |
| 362 | 4 | David Gent | DNR |
| 362 | 5 | Frederic Soria | 28,900 |
| 362 | 6 | Jude Ainsworth | 122,600 |
| 363 | 1 | Ronald Armstrong | 3,500 |
| 363 | 2 | Peter Gilmore | 72,800 |
| 363 | 3 | Laurence Houghton | 62,600 |
| 363 | 4 | Shaun Deeb | 125,100 |
| 363 | 6 | Mauro Stivoli | 119,900 |
| 363 | 8 | Leonardo Mendoza | 13,800 |
| 364 | 1 | Tommy Vedes | 22,400 |
| 364 | 2 | Joel Benzinou | 31,500 |
| 364 | 3 | Alan Sass | 67,300 |
| 364 | 4 | Dan Smith | 75,800 |
| 364 | 5 | Nicholas Maimone | 40,100 |
| 364 | 6 | Eric Haddad | 52,200 |
| 365 | 1 | Tim Kahlmeyer | 82,700 |
| 365 | 2 | Nenad Medic | 79,800 |
| 365 | 3 | Nicolas Chouity | 33,200 |
| 365 | 4 | Hunter Frey | 52,000 |
| 365 | 5 | Daniel Alaei | 26,100 |
| 365 | 6 | Dobromir Nikov | 121,700 |
| 366 | 1 | Matt Stout | 85,400 |
| 366 | 2 | Neil Willerson | 19,700 |
| 366 | 3 | Arnaud Esquevin | 58,200 |
| 366 | 4 | Anthony Gregg | 178,900 |
| 366 | 5 | Nathan Doudney | 36,000 |
| 366 | 6 | Taylor Paur | 100,200 |
| 367 | 1 | Daniel Reijmer | 35,400 |
| 367 | 2 | Asa Smith | 66,000 |
| 367 | 3 | Ty Reiman | 22,900 |
| 367 | 4 | Mark Dickstein | 58,100 |
| 367 | 5 | Caio Cesar Pimenta | 95,700 |
| 367 | 6 | Jeff Hakim | 32,200 |
| 368 | 1 | Phil Hellmuth | 89,800 |
| 368 | 2 | James Dempsey | 115,700 |
| 368 | 3 | Anthony Gargano | 15,200 |
| 368 | 4 | Balazs Botond | 81,000 |
| 368 | 5 | Kenneth Shelton | 35,200 |
| 368 | 6 | Mayu Roca Uribe | 48,400 |
| 369 | 1 | David Singer | 73,000 |
| 369 | 2 | Viktor Zsemlye | 42,800 |
| 369 | 3 | Andrew Badecker | 26,300 |
| 369 | 4 | Michael Finstein | 52,700 |
| 369 | 5 | Anthony Spinella | 23,400 |
| 369 | 6 | Zachary Gruneberg | 142,400 |
| 370 | 1 | Jesse Cohen | 59,000 |
| 370 | 2 | Julien Pouchain | 68,700 |
| 370 | 3 | Matthew Jarvis | 303,800 |
| 370 | 4 | Steve Sung | 107,900 |
| 370 | 5 | Brendon Rubie | 33,900 |
| 372 | 1 | Primoz Cimerman | 61,900 |
| 372 | 2 | Mohsen Tayfeh | 52,100 |
| 372 | 3 | Athanasios Polychronopoul | 60,600 |
| 372 | 4 | Ben Tollerene | 23,800 |
| 372 | 5 | Yuliyan Kolev | 73,500 |
| 372 | 6 | Matthew Vengrin | 91,300 |
| 373 | 1 | Stanislav Barshak | 110,400 |
| 373 | 2 | Jonathan Duhamel | 31,600 |
| 373 | 3 | Jeremy Ausmus | 143,300 |
| 373 | 4 | Shane Schleger | 70,800 |
| 373 | 5 | Eric Blair | 76,600 |
| 373 | 6 | Sida Yuen | 39,100 |
| 375 | 1 | David Olson | 46,700 |
| 375 | 2 | Jordan Young | 27,500 |
| 375 | 3 | Isaac Haxton | 96,000 |
| 375 | 4 | Russell Carson | 18,500 |
| 375 | 5 | Benjamin Spindler | 38,660 |
| 376 | 1 | Michael Gagliano | 21,800 |
| 376 | 2 | Carter Swidler | 94,600 |
| 376 | 4 | Randy Dorfman | 280,000 |
| 376 | 5 | Kristina Holst | 22,700 |
| 376 | 6 | Brent Hanks | 66,500 |
Event #40: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Day 2 Started
