Day 2 of the Potomac Poker Open $3300 Main Event Commences at 3 p.m.
It’s time for Day 2 of the Potomac Poker Open $3300 Main Event. Some 77 players remain with a chance to win the event and the $247,950 prize up top for the winner. Those 77 will be joined by the survivors of Flight C which will finish shortly before the beginning of Day 2 (which begins at 3 p.m. local time).
The field drew 348 entries in total, which creates a prizepool of just over the 1 million guarantee with 1,044,000. The top 36 players will get paid, with a min cash being worth $5,742.
Dylan Lask leads the way entering Day 2 with a stack of 495,500. Several other players will take a big stack with them into play today including Benjamin Morgan (453,500), Tony Gregg (402,500), Rich Weinhold (398,000) and Jordan Fisch (398,00). These big stack players will likely be joined by one or two large ones from the conclusion of Flight C.
Play begins at 3 p.m at level 14 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and a 5,00 big blind ante. The average stack will be just shy of 40 big blinds. Each level played today will be 60 minutes in length and play will continue until a final table and will then stop in order to come back for the conclusion on Monday August 5.
PokerNews will provide the very end of Flight C coverage to identify the players who made it through that flight and their chip counts and then continue coverage throughout Day 2.
. Jeffrey Colpitts bet 50,000. Dustin Semonavick waited a moment before announcing all in. Colpitts took down his hoodie and sat back to think it out as it was a decision for his tournament life. After about a minute he put a stack of chips into the middle to indicate a call.
. Colpitts rolled over his inferior hand with the 
. The river was a harmless 
and Semonavick took a huge pot and eliminated Colpitts.
. Both players checked. The turn was the 
. Gregg bet 52,000 and was called. The river came the 
. Gregg fired again for 67,000. Semonavick moved all in and Gregg folded.
and Gregg was eliminated after a turbulent day that never saw him get anything going after beginning the day high in chips.
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and Chen had the lead with the 
peeled off and the river 
ended Lask's tournament abruptly in 25th place and gave Chen what is likely the biggest pot of the tournament thus far.
and the river the 
to send Butler to the rail.
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to give him a commanding lead. 
on the river ended her run in 15th place.
and Esterling's run was over.
