Niall Farrell Leads the Final 22; Jason Mercier Still in the Hunt
At the start of the day, 229 players were hoping that they would be the next gold bracelet winner at the 2013 World Series of Poker. After ten levels of poker on Day 2, only 22 remain, and the player who is at the front of the pack is Niall Farrell, who bagged up 792,000 chips to end the night. Right behind him is Micahel Rocco, who has 780,000.
Half of the starting 229 today were going to walk away empty handed, and some of the notables who were part of the lesser half today included Ryan D’Angelo, Matthias de Meulder, Jonathan Duhamel, Sam Stein, and Dan Kelly, who came into the day second in chips.
Some of the notables who survived the bubble, but fell short of making Day 3 included Randy Lew (113th), Dominik Nitsche (104th), Sorel Mizzi (90th), Bart Hanson (88th), Mark Radoja (49th), Joe Kuether (34th), and Matt Marafioti (23rd), who was eliminated on one of the last hands of the night.
Jason Mercier has made his first Day 3 of the 2013 WSOP, as he will be coming back with 566,000. Other notables joining him tomorrow are Will Jaffe (425,000), Nam Le (327,000), Justin Zaki (221,000), Pedro Rios (186,000), and Marco Johnson (124,000).
The final 22 players will be coming back tomorrow at 1 PM to play down to a winner. Be sure to come back to PokerNews.com for all of your live updates, including hand-for-hand coverage of the final table!