Green Leads After Day 2!
Event #31: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or-Better has come to an end with Perry Green leading the way with 491,000 in chips as we head into the final day’s play. Not many people will know this, but back in the late 1970’s, Green won 3 WSOP bracelets in Ace-to-Five Draw and No-Limit Hold’em. He’ll be looking to add another one to his collection after a 35-year gap.
Day 2 saw 129 players take their seats in the Amazon Room and by the time 10 one-hour levels were completed only 14 players still had chips in front of them that required bagging up. Not far behind Green are Marco Johnson (475,000), and the last remaining female in the field Loni Harwood (444,000). Add to that, bracelet winners Barry Greenstein (287,000) and Eric Rodawig (212,000), as well as Noomis Jones (439,000) who finished 14th in this same event last year, and we're set for an interesting finish.
At the start of the day, the players were 12 eliminations from the money, and it would be David Greene who would earn the unlucky title of bubble boy. From there on in, we lost several notable players including Eoghan O’Dea {93rd), Jason Mercier (83rd), Jonathon Little (75th), Matthew Vengrin (62nd}, Nick Binger (58th), Allen Cunningham (44th), Owais Ahmed (42nd), David Sands (41st), Mike Matusow (40th), Allen Le (36th), Matthew Giannetti (35th), Mel Judah (27th), Jeff Lisandro (24th) and Leif Force (23rd).
Play resumes at 1:00pm local time tomorrow and continues until one player is crowned the next World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Who will be Event #31’s champion? Be sure to stay tuned as PokerNews brings you all the exciting action from the final day's play.