Day 2 Comes to an End with Travis Lutes in the Chip Lead
The World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event in Biloxi, Mississippi, continued Monday with the remaining 60 players of a 270-player field returning to IP Casino Resort & Spa to play down to a final table. Action was fast and furious at the start of the day. In fact, the field was halved within the first two hours. From there the money bubble quickly burst, Bubble Boy honors going to Yong Chen, and the eliminations just seemed to mount. Headlining the final table is Travis Lutes who holds a stack of 1.725 million.
Farid Nasserazad is right behind Lutes with 1.697 million. With 12 players remaining, Nasserazad positioned himself as the second big stack when the following hand developed. Action folded to Will "Monkey" Souther in the hijack and he put in a standard raise. Nasserazad then made it 150,000 to go from the button and both blinds folded. Souther moved all in for about 540,000, Nasserazad snap-called and turned up 
, and Souther found himself behind with 
. The board ran out 
and Souther was bounced from the tournament in 12th place while Nasserazad jumped up to 1.6 million.
Here is a look at the final table:
Seat 1- Jerry Monroe (154,000)
Seat 2- Jason Cluxton (589,000)
Seat 3- Steven Marshall (106,000)
Seat 4- Yair Alon (404,000)
Seat 5- Farid Nasserazad (1.697,000)
Seat 6- John Holley (315,000)
Seat 7- Robert Gunter (144,000)
Seat 8- Bob Talbot (276,000)
Seat 9- Travis Lutes (1,725,000)
Play resumes at 12 p.m. local tomorrow where a winner will be determined. Our Live Reporting team will be covering the final table action, so be sure to check back then.