$250 Main Event ($500,000 GTD) Day 2 | 2023 888poker XL Winter Series

01-30-2023 18:09 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
bianchettibh	1,435,292 123,268	123,268
RUNRANRUNIT8	1,112,536 28,500	28,500
BritiyLobok	988,056 518,747	518,747
Sim0nK	825,708 26,775	26,775
Dan "badrobot27" Charlton	789,580 25,500	25,500
Artur1965	763,985 15,000	15,000
RazvyB	733,307 413,634	413,634
kellerassel0	409,514 116,417	116,417
SickSlick	401,660 24,499	24,499
dainuciuks	359,043 194,642	194,642
33betwizkid	263,286 132,268	132,268
cexinha94pkr	113,350 5,979	5,979
gcode772	Busted
idkhtp	Busted
LULULLURU	Busted

62 Players Remain

Lyle Bateman

Level 28, Blinds: 6,000/12,000 (1,500)

There were 62 players left in the action as they returned from the break. with two players stacking more than a million chips right now, and "SickSlick" still leading the bounty race by quite a way. "Sim0nK" is doing pretty well in bounties too though, stuffing their pockets with more than $18k already for second place.

01-30-2023 17:58 UTC-4

"bianchettibh" with Huge Lead at Break

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Lyle Bateman

Level 27, Blinds: 5,000/10,000 (1,250)

"bianchettibh" took a huge lead just before the break when their ace-four wheeled over the suited ace-queen of"hackino". "RUNRANRUNIT8" is also over a million chips at the break.

Player	Chips	Progress
bianchettibh	1,558,560 732,157	732,157
RUNRANRUNIT8	1,084,036 67,311	67,311
Sim0nK	798,933 30,256	30,256
Dan "badrobot27" Charlton	764,080 92,973	92,973
Artur1965	748,985 16,050	16,050
hackinho	Busted

01-30-2023 17:51 UTC-4

Start of Day Leader Out

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Lyle Bateman

Level 27, Blinds: 5,000/10,000 (1,250)

Start of day chip leader "R2Rka" is out in 73rd place after their ace-seven suited fell to trip fives for "BritiyLobok".

Player	Chips	Progress
BritiyLobok	469,309
R2Rka	Busted

01-30-2023 17:46 UTC-4

Chip Leaders With 76 Left

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Lyle Bateman

Level 27, Blinds: 5,000/10,000 (1,250)

Lithuania is featuring big in this Main Event at the moment with three of the top five stacks from that country. "RUNRANRUNIT8" leads the way now as the only player with more than a million.

Player	Chips	Progress
RUNRANRUNIT8	1,016,725 665,108	665,108
Dan "badrobot27" Charlton	857,053 133,125	133,125
bianchettibh	826,403
Sim0nK	768,677 25,000	25,000
Artur1965	765,035

01-30-2023 17:39 UTC-4

700k Club

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Lyle Bateman

Level 26, Blinds: 4,000/8,000 (1,000)

Two players are in the 700k club right now with "Sim0nK" nearing 800k.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sim0nK	793,677 37,716	37,716
Dan "badrobot27" Charlton	723,928 306,363	306,363

01-30-2023 17:33 UTC-4

"33betwizkid" Prevents "SickSlick" from Taking Another Bounty

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Lyle Bateman

Level 26, Blinds: 4,000/8,000 (1,000)

"33betwizkid" had to get there with queens over jacks after "SickSlick" flopped a set to take the lead. a queen on the river saved "33betwizkid" from the rail and prevented "SickSlick" from adding more bounties to their stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
SickSlick	377,161 60,698	60,698
33betwizkid	131,018

01-30-2023 17:25 UTC-4

Team888 Finishes As Simpson's Kings Cracked

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Lyle Bateman

Level 25, Blinds: 3,500/7,000 (875)

Ian "Simpioni" Simpson was bemoaning his kings on stream as they were cracked by ace-king. He was the last member of Team888 still alive in today's Main and he nearly cracked the top 100.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ian "simpioni" Simpson	Busted

01-30-2023 17:20 UTC-4

"kellerassel0" Holds with King-High

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Lyle Bateman

Level 24, Blinds: 3,000/6,000 (750)

"kellerassel0" just held for their life when the money went in on a flopped flush draw for both players. "kellerassel0" had the best one with king-high and when the flush bricked and nothing else hit, they took with pot with just the king.

Player	Chips	Progress
idkhtp	301,947 107,190	107,190
kellerassel0	293,097

01-30-2023 17:14 UTC-4

Stack Updates

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Lyle Bateman

Level 24, Blinds: 3,000/6,000 (750)

"Sim0nK" still leads the way with 121 players remaining now. Day 2 plays down to 9 players, and so far, the action has been hot and fast. It will be hard to catch bounty leader "SickSlick" though with $50k in their pocket already.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sim0nK	831,393 36,949	36,949
dainuciuks	553,685 13,875	13,875
SickSlick	437,859 70,075	70,075
Dan "badrobot27" Charlton	417,565 16,705	16,705
idkhtp	409,137 12,000	12,000
RUNRANRUNIT8	351,617 182,650	182,650
RazvyB	319,673 10,162	10,162
R2Rka	198,332 55,037	55,037
LULULLURU	125,591 192,737	192,737
cexinha94pkr	119,329 46,951	46,951
gcode772	118,122 28,471	28,471
Ian "simpioni" Simpson	61,349 10,192	10,192

algsxr	Busted
Ramon "BlacKK_DucKK" Kropmanns	Busted
BombayBG	Busted
Vivian "vivi.888." Saliba	Busted

Ben "xLIVEPROx" Warrington	Busted