Zhen Cai and Matt Woodward finished first and second in the chip counts last night with Woodward leading by just a few thousand chips over Cai.
Today is a new day though, and thus their stories are changing. Cai has vaulted himself into the chip lead over the course of the day and he sits on a stack of over 200,000. Woodward on the other hand has sunk to the middle-low end of the pack and sits with just about 45,000. The two chip leaders from last night has certainly headed in different directions and it looks like Zhen Cai is coming out on top.
We came to the table with the action on Andreas Hoivold. Three players, one of whom was Tom Koral, had already moved all in and Hoivold had a decision to either call or fold after having already opened the pot.
Eventually, Hoivold turned up his and folded his hand. Tom Koral and the other two players all turned up their hands.
Koral:
Player 1:
Player 2:
The board ran out . At first it looked as if Koral would chop with the first player, as they each had three tens with an ace kicker, but on second glance, Koral had actually picked up a straight. There was no low possible and Koral doubled through player two, who had a covering stack while eliminating player one.
David Baker opened with a raise from the cutoff only to have Scott Fischman three-bet all in for roughly 6,500. Baker made the call and the cards were tabled.
Baker:
Fischman:
The flop fell to see Baker flop a straight, and after the and landed on the turn and river, Fischman was sent crashing to the rail as Baker moved to roughly 50,000 in chips.
At the start of the day "Miami" John Cernuto was in the middle of the pack chips wise, but as of late, Cernuto has climbed to the top of the pack and he sits upon a stack of just around 100,000. That's good for one of the biggest stacks in the room just behind Zhen Cai and Paul Tedeschi.
The Rio is buzzing with the $111,111 One Drop High Rollers event, and the crew takes a look at some of the big names in the field. They also do a little fantasy draft for the tournament with the Executive Director of the World Series of Poker, Ty Stewart.
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and the 2013 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of the Event #46: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or-Better!
Yesterday saw 435 players spread throughout the floor of the Amazon Room, and when the dust settled, only 139 players remained all eyeing the money-paying top 45 before making a run at the bracelet and $279,094 first prize.
Matt Woodward bagged an impressive 98,700 in chips and is one of two players in the 90,000-chip range with Cai Zhen (95,300) being the other.
Ari Engel also sits in the top ten while the likes of Gavin Smith (60,500), Ali Eslami (55,600), Amnon Filippi (47,000), Leif Force (43,300), John Cernuto (42,600), Andrey Zaichenko (31,500), Eric Baldwin (28,900), Chip Jett (28,700), Joe Hachem (25,600), Mike Matusow (22,000), Jeff Madsen (17,200) and a host of other notables still remain.
Here is how the top ten chip stacks sit:
Rank
Player
Chip Count
1
Matt Woodward
98,700
2
Cai Zhen
95,300
3
Richard Sklar
87,700
4
Michael Sanders
79,500
5
Joseph Silverman
78,300
6
Rodrigo Caprioli
72,600
7
Paul Francoi Tedeschi
70,800
8
Ari Engel
64,200
9
Nicholas Verkaik
62,300
10
Thomas Keller
60,600
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and folded his hand. Tom Koral and the other two players all turned up their hands.
. At first it looked as if Koral would chop with the first player, as they each had three tens with an ace kicker, but on second glance, Koral had actually picked up a straight. There was no low possible and Koral doubled through player two, who had a covering stack while eliminating player one.
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