Welcome to Day 2 of Parx Big Stax 1100
After two preliminary rounds, it's time for the real fun to begin at Parx Big Stax 1100 in the Philadelphia area. Day 2 has arrived, and with it a number of milestones for this tournament.
The first two days of play have seen 357 entries register, but registration still remains open with 79 having earned seats on Day 2 already. That will end in short order here today, although players can still fire away with 10 big blinds throughout the duration of the first one-hour level — blinds and antes kick off at 2,500/5,000/5,000 to begin play.
Those brave enough to come in this late will add to a prize pool in the range of $350,000.
Day 2 play features one-hour levels, a step up from the 45 minutes on Day 1. For the first time, the tournament will also play out in the main cash game room rather than the East building. Action continues through Level 24 (15,000/30,000/30,000) or until an official final table of eight players has been reached.
At this juncture, Greg Fishberg remains the man to catch with 719,000 in chips, as nobody else even topped the 500,000 mark. Still plenty of players bear watching, including Mukul and Vinny Pahuja, DJ MacKinnon, Steve Silverman, Roman Valerstein and Victor Ramdin are among that number.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out what sort of prize pool will develop and which players will best position themselves for the lion's share of it.
in front of him on 
. Apparently, he'd gotten in a raising war with a player in late position, ending with Santos all in for 603,000. His opponent apparently had shown down queens, which were already mucked. Santos collected nearly all of his opponent's chips and moved past 1.2 million.
. He was dominated by the big blind's 
. The 
flop brought plenty of outs for Ramdin, but the 
and 
kept his opponent's kicker barely in play.
flopped. Ippolito bet 170,000 or so, the opener mucked, and Robert Brobyn said he was all in. Ippolito beat him into the pot and tabled 
. Brobyn had 
but bricked out as 
and 
hit the felt.
. That was dominating Fishberg's 
flop increased Fishberg's outs considerably. However, the 
and 
were bricks on the turn and river.
against 
and furthered her advantage by flopping a queen. However, Palma turned a king and rivered a flush to bust her.
turn sealed her elimination.
board gave Palma top pair but it wasn't enough.
