Hemingway Leads Final 17 After Day 2 of the Main Event
Day 2 of the Texas State Main Event was one to remember as 218 hopefuls started the day dreaming of the grand prize and when the dust settled at the end of the day after 14 hours of play, just 17 remained.
Leading the way in chips to end the day was Jared Hemingway who bagged 11,325,000. He started to accumulate a large stack with eight tables left as his chip counts rose to one of the higher ones. After a slight dip he was able to rise again during the last three tables and put himself in pole position at the end of play.
A player who had one of the more notable days was second place bagger, Christopher Doan who finished with 10,000,000. The start of day chip leader was involved in many big hands throughout the day, rapidly rising his stack early, plateauing for a while and then shooting it up again late in the day.
Michael Wang, Gabriel Andrade and Nick Shkolnik rounded out the top 5 in chips, each bagging large stacks as well, all over 9 million.
Many players were cut down over the course of the day to create the final 17. Including Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer who hit the rail early in the day.
Matt Berkey was taken out in 78th place and Darren Elias made a deeper run, making it down to the final four tables before succumbing in 30th place.
The 17 payers will return for the final day of the main event at 2 p.m. local time to Level 29.
PokerNews will bring you the conclusion in its entirety.
. All the chips ended up in the middle after a series of raises and an all in shove.
while Vazquez had 
off suit.
. Nick Shkolnik made a big bet and Genc Govori moved all in from the button, Shkolnik called.
but it was no good against the 
binked off to send Govori to the rail while giving Shkolnik a massive pot right.
, rivering a set against the 
of Montgomery who was standing up and walking towards the payout desk.
. The pot was about 500,000 and Jessica Plusko moved all in for 620,000 from the big blind. 
to give Plusko the massive pot.
, the turn was the 
to provide Jackson with some slight hope of a miracle but the 
on the river ended that hope and Jackson's run came to an end while Bartlett stacked a huge pot.
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
to hold for the aces and give Montgomery a huge pot to eliminate the player holding jacks and decimate Villarroel who would be eliminated a couple of hands later.
