That's All For Today

Day 2 dawned some 13 hours ago with 101 runners duking it out seven-card style, and that has now been whittled down into a sparse, skilled field of just 11 players. David Oppenheim came into the day on top of the pack, but it was just a few levels before he was ground down and out of the field. Among the other casualties of Day 2 were notables Chris Ferguson, Mark Seif, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Bruno Fitoussi, Johnny Chan, Todd Brunson, Hoyt Corkins, Steve Zolotow, and Alex Kravchenko.

Despite that who's-who list of bustouts, there's still plenty of talent left in the field. Daniel Negreanu was down under 10,000 chips near the middle of the day before rallying to more than 300,000. He's slipped a bit since then, finishing play just under 200,000. Also still going are Greg "FBT" Mueller, Jeff Lisandro, Max Pescatori, Hasan Habib and Stud stud Eric Drache.

All of those guys were chasing the most-senior member of this event throughout the day, Freddie Ellis. Ellis has been putting on a clinic for two days now, and he worked his way to a massive chip lead over the last few levels. The gap closed significantly as the final levels wore on though, and both Drache and Habib managed to creep ahead of Ellis as play concluded.

We couldn't quite reach the final table before the 3:00am cutoff, so we'll be back at 1:00pm to pick up the action (thank you, Rule 96). We'll see you tomorrow afternoon!