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Kofi Farkye is sitting behind 375,000 after eliminating Kevin Saul. The two apparently got into a pissing contest on a king-rag-rag flop. Since they were about even in chips with approximately 180,000 each and the board was fairly dry, Saul must have thought there was no way Farkye would call his all-in bet after Farkye had made a big reraise. He was wrong. Farkye called with with and was in the lead with top pair. Saul showed , a hand that had not connected with the board in any appreciable way. The turn was a that at least gave Saul outs to a gutshot straight, but he missed the river.
When the stacks were counted down, Farkye had Saul covered by about 12,000 chips. His new count is 375,000; Saul is out of the tournament.
[user38449]
With a little under 16 minutes remaining in the level, there are 187 players remaining in the field and the average chip stack is 74,439. At the conclusion of the current level, the remaining players will bag and tag their chips marking the end of Day 2 play.
[user38449]
Phil Ivey
The robotic voice belonging to Commerce's uber-modern tournament management software has just instructed each table to play one last hand before we call it a day. Following that announcement, human Tournament Director Matt Savage hopped on the mic to make it official; Day 2 is a wrap.
The unofficial tally of remaining players is 170; we won't get an actual figure from the Commerce crew until the bag and tag process has concluded. Today saw the WPT's own Antonio Esfandiari soar to the top of the leaderboard early on and it looks as though he'll maintain the overnight chip lead, slightly ahead of newcomer Kofi Farkye. By our end-of-day estimates, Esfandiari has approximately 405,000 heading into Day 3, while Farkye will return to the felt with right around 390,000 in chips.
Several big names were sent packing throughout the day, including but not limited to, Phil Hellmuth, Erik Seidel, Kevin Saul, David Oppenheim, Amir Vahedi, Mike Matusow and Gavin Griffin. Among those who'll be back for tomorrow's Day 3 action include last year's LAPC champ Phil Ivey, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Haralabos Voulgaris, Jeff "ActionJeff" Garza, Paul Wasicka, Chris Ferguson, and Mike Sowers.
Tune in at noon local time tomorrow for our continued live coverage of the 2009 LA Poker Classic from the Commerce Casino in Commerce, California.
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and was in the lead with top pair. Saul showed 
, a hand that had not connected with the board in any appreciable way. The turn was a 
that at least gave Saul outs to a gutshot straight, but he missed the river.