Big Stacks at the Break
There are 61 players out of the 115 initial Day 2 entrants still in contention and they have just headed off on a 40-minute dinner break. The current frontrunner is Yu Dong and the Chinese player has been hard at work since the last time we walked by his table – he had just over 300,000 then but has more than doubled that since and is now sitting on a mountain of chips with a stack of 630,000 – that is a massive 210 big blinds folks.
The only other player we could find with anything close to this is Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung, but he ‘only’ has a stack of 360,000 (120 big blinds). While Taiwan’s Chan An Lin wins the award for the most artistic chip stack – some sort of giant elaborate chip flower that he has spent the better part of the last level building – he only has a stack of 208,000. Here’s how some of the field’s other notables are stacking up:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
630,000 | 290,000 |
|
360,000 | 215,000 |
|
350,000 | 49,000 |
|
325,000 | 10,000 |
|
300,000 | 30,000 |
|
290,000 | 177,700 |
|
270,000 | 224,500 |
|
|
255,000 | -65,000 |
|
230,000 | 230,000 |
|
220,000 | 141,000 |
|
208,000 | 208,000 |
|
190,000 | -117,000 |
|
150,000 | 40,000 |
|
|
150,000 | 68,000 |
|
140,000 | -70,000 |
|
110,000 | -4,000 |
|
90,000 | -73,000 |
|
70,000 | 32,500 |
|
70,000 | -135,000 |
|
Busted |