Day 2 Done and Dusted
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Well that's that for Day 2 of the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship.
Some thirteen hours ago, a stream of 102 players trickled in the double doors for their restart, everyone gunning for one of the nine seats at tomorrow's final table. With the money bubble still looming a long way off at 16, the early action was relentless. Lex Veldhuis was out within moments after running his pocket queens into an opponent's pocket aces. Right behind him went Erick Lindgren, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and Matt Glantz. Poker couple Vanessa Rousso and Chad Brown fared just a bit better, but they were both eliminated within a half-hour span midway through the day. Also in the list of Day 2 casualties were Dwyte Pilgrim, Isaac Haxton, Justin Bonomo, Shaun Deeb... and really too many other familiar names to mention in one place.
So, let's talk about the good for a minute, that's more pertinent. Anh Van Nguyen has just narrowly squeaked his way into Day 3, though he's on the short stack heading into the final day. David Chiu is still in the mix too, as is 2009 double bracelet winner Brock Parker. We still have Matt Keikoan in the field too, another bracelet winner looking to add to his trophy case. We're still hanging on to Michael Mizrachi as well, and The Grinder will be looking to bolster his Player of the Year chances with another final table berth. All told we had an unlucky 13 players survive to return for the last day.
The twelve-hour rule is apparently out the window, and we'll restart at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow as originally scheduled. That'll come a lot earlier than it sounds, so we're off to get ourselves some sleep. We'll see you back here tomorrow, though, as we play down to a final table and eventually crown a new world champion of limit hold'em!
Until then...