2009 World Series of Poker

Event 10 - $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha
Day: 2
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Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9♣9♠
Prize
$244,862
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Entries
453
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

Day 2 Concludes

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Daniel Makowsky
Daniel Makowsky
As is becoming typical for Day 2's here in the newly-structured World Series of Poker, we've reached the 3:00am cutoff time before the field was able to play all the way down to the final table. The action was quick at times, but things ground to the predictable halt as the hours dragged on. The last elimination came some 75 minutes before the clock expired, and knockouts were hard to come by for the last several hours in truth.

Ninety-nine players unbagged their chips some 13 hours ago as Day 2 dawned, and just 18 of them still have chips to bag up as the day concludes. Jamie Rosen began play with the chip lead, and he has ridden that big stack deep into the night. He bagged up 178,000 chips tonight, good enough to put him in the middle of the pack.

Over the course of the day though, two players really began to pull away from the field. Daniel Makowsky is now your chip leader, cramming 561,000 technicolor chips into the barely-big-enough thick plastic bag. Right behind him is Rami Boukai with 508,000, and those two men account for about 30% of the chips in play. After those two, there is a big gap back to the third place stack of Ben Grundy.

That being said, it's still clearly anyone's game. The remaining 18 players will return at 1:00pm tomorrow, and we'll plan to play it all the way out till the end. Hopefully by this time tomorrow night, we'll have our 10th WSOP bracelet winner of 2009. Until tomorrow, goodnight from the Amazon Room!