Day 2 Is In The Books
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Day 2 of Event #50 is in the books and just 34 players remain. With 263 competitors starting with chips, the action was fierce from the beginning, through the money bubble, all the way to the end when Vanessa Peng finished with the most chips. Some of the talented players we lost in action before the bubble popped included Jake Cody, Andy Black, Shannon Shorr, Justin Smith, and PokerStars Team Pro Lex Veldhuis. We also lost both sets of brothers that were still left in the tournament. Joe and Tony Hachem couldn’t make it to the money, nor could Michael and Nick Binger.
Day 2 wasn’t bad to all players though. 2011 gold bracelet winners Sam Stein, Allen Bari, and Mark Radoja all made it deep enough to cash but were unable to take it any further. John Racener, Josh Arieh, and PokerStars Team Pro’s Johnny Lodden and Gualter Salles suffered the same fate.
However, if Day 2 was notable for any particular reason, it was the constant revolving door of chip leaders. Mark Herm began the day as chip leader and is still alive with a stack of 265,000, while most of the other top Day 1 chip stacks have already exited. Ryan Young stepped up early and found himself atop the leaderboard, quickly followed by Dylan Wilkerson. Former Chess Prodigy, Jeff Sarwer was able to hit the 500,000 mark before anyone had passed 350,000. Andrew Savitz, Isaac Baron, Ben Volpe and Darryl Ronconi could all claim a Day 2 chip lead at some point. Most notably, however, was the stack that Eric Froehlich had acquired with about two hours left in the day. He was just shy of a million chips with the second place stack still at 600,000. While he finished at only 399,000, even now the Day 2 chip leader, Vanessa Peng, has just 801,000.
Speaking of Peng, she probably had already circled tomorrow’s date on her calendar but for a different reason. Tomorrow at noon, the popular Ladies Event starts and now Peng will likely not be one of the entrants. Given that she is the lone remaining woman and the player that everyone will be chasing tomorrow, she is probably not that disappointed.
With such a skilled list of players still remaining including David “Bakes” Baker, Vitaly Lunkin, Barry Greenstein, Jeff Williams, and the aforementioned Froehlich, tomorrow will be some of the best competition the Rio will see all summer. The action starts back up at 2:30 p.m. local time so come back to catch all of the action.