Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes drew a seat at the same table with Sirous Jamshidi to start Day 2, and it looks like Jamshidi has won the battle of the mustachioed players. Jamshidi's thriving with more than 200,000 (good for top five in chips), while Brenes has just been eliminated.
Brenes was first crippled in a hand versus Christian Harder. A short-stacked Harder open-shoved his last 15,700 with , and Brenes called with . No trey came for Brenes, and he was down to just 5,000. Harder chipped up to 33,000 on that one.
All in on the next hand versus Friend of PokerStars Pierre Neuville, Brenes had a good hand -- -- but had run into Neuville's . The board went , and the Costa Rican pro hit the rail. Neuville now has 83,000.
Facing a raise to 2,400, Huck Seed moved all-in for 5,700 more and earned a call. Seed's pocket aces held up and he doubled his micro-stack to a still-short 13,800.
David Peters just now got into a preflop raising war with an opponent in which he finally four-bet all-in and was called. Peters had , but unfortunately for him was up against .
The board ran out , and Peters is another early elimination here on Day 2.
Alex Kravchenko entered today short-stacked with just 21,600. On one of the first hands of Day 2, the Russian committed his remaining stack in a hand versus Daniel Smith following a flop.
Kravchenko held for nines, but Smith had for the better pair. The turn was the and river the , and Kravchencko is out.
Smith began the day in the top ten, and now moves up to 178,000.
Day 1 saw more than half of the 268 players who started this event hit the rail. Poker heavyweights like John Juanda, Sorel Mizzi, Kathy Liebert, Justin Bonomo, and Greg Raymer all reached the bottom end of their chip stacks yesterday, leaving 122 players still in contention for the Pot-Limit Hold'em World Championship title and a WSOP bracelet.
Tom Marchese emerged as the runaway chip leader last night, bagging up more than 334,000 in chips. Nikolai Yakovenko, Dani "Ansky" Stern, Sirous Jamshidi, John Duthie, and Noah Boeken will also start Day 2 with formidable stacks, while Huck Seed, David Baker and Barry Greenstein will all be looking for a double-up to start their afternoon.
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. No trey came for Brenes, and he was down to just 5,000. Harder chipped up to 33,000 on that one.
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. The board went 
, and the Costa Rican pro hit the rail. Neuville now has 83,000.![[user25067]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
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flop.
for nines, but Smith had 
for the better pair. The turn was the 
, and Kravchencko is out.