Doug Polk Among Big Stacks on Day 2 of Main Event
It is time for Day 2 of Event #13: $3,000 Main Event which gets underway at 2 p.m. Ten 60-minute levels will be played today as the field has 259 players returning for action today, so prepare for play to be deep at the start and for things to get a bit more intense as the day progresses.
Headlining Day 2 is none other than Lodge Poker Club part owner Doug Polk who is among the largest stacks on Day 2. He brings in 263,000 which is 16th in chips and good for 131 big blinds to start the day.
Starting the day as chip leader is Dien Le, with 435,500 as he bagged the largest stack from Day 1e, and Raymond Brint is right behind him in second place with 401,500 as the only two players to have an over 400,000 chip stack.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Hometown | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dien Le | Bellevue, WA | 435,500 | 218 |
| 2 | Raymond Brint | Whitehorse, OH | 401,500 | 201 |
| 3 | Steven Sarmiento | Forrest Hills, NY | 375,500 | 188 |
| 4 | Jack Peterson | Littleton, CO | 358,500 | 179 |
| 5 | Charles Alex-Barton | Boston, MA | 357,000 | 179 |
| 6 | Anthony Hu | Las Vegas, NV | 348,000 | 174 |
| 7 | Andrew Moreno | Las Vegas. NV | 317,500 | 159 |
| 8 | Miguel Carpriles | Miami, FL | 295,000 | 148 |
| 9 | Stephen Song | West Palm Beach, FL | 291,000 | 120.5 |
| 10 | Darren Rabinowitz | Las Vegas, NV | 291,000 | 120.5 |
There are many well-known players still alive. Just to name a few; Andrew Moreno who enters the day with the seventh largest stack at 317,500, Stephen Song with 291,000 which is in the top ten stacks.
Both Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen will be competing on Day 2 as Alex has 144,500 while Kristen has shorter stack of 78,500 which still has plenty of play at this part of the tournament.
Play will start at Level 10 with blinds at 1,000/2,000/2,000 with each one going 60-minutes and play stopping after ten are player where the remaining players will bag up and gear up to return for Day 3 which is on Monday at 2 p.m.
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. Doug Polk bet 20,500 from the hijack into a pot of around 24,000.
. Lulov continued for a 9,500 bed on the flop, both opponents called.
. New bet 25,000. Lulov called and this time Rich got out of the way.
. New bet 100,000, Lulov raised a little more all in for 115,000 and New snap-called.
for the full house but New had that beat with the 
straight flush as he won the huge pot and eliminated Lulov as well as Smith's who's hand was discarded.
. Ball bet 17,500 and Russo called.
to double pair the board. Ball fired 26,000. Russo thought for a while before he called.
ten high which was the best hand in this scenario and he took the pot with the call.
the turn was a blank and the river was an 
top pair and flush draw while Polk had the lead with the better kicker, holding the 
. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
to stay spade free and eliminate Penza and another chunk of chips to Polk's stack as table 38 was broken shortly after.
to flop the nut flush for Imejjane and basically kill Foxen's tournament life barring miracle running queens. The turn was the 
and river the 
. Brink changed up the flow and led for 30,000. Polk took his time before sliding a big stack forward for a raise to about 120,000. Brink folded after a few moments to send Polk the pot as he is now the chip leader of the tournament barely edging out Thong Nguyen at the moment.
. The pot had a large amount of about 175,000 in the middle. On the button Alain Bauer had forced Aaron McEvoy, who was in the big blind, to make a decision for his tournament life with about 160,000 behind.
board when Stephen Song checked his action. Bin Weng bet 115,000 and Song check-raised for all of it. 
