Event #59: $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Day 2 | 2013 World Series of Poker

07-05-2013 02:27 UTC-7

Full End of Day Chip Counts

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
David "ODB" Baker	458,000 63,000	63,000

David Chiu	263,000 -57,000	-57,000

Scott Seiver	249,000 51,000	51,000

Michael Mizrachi	225,000 -55,000	-55,000

Alexander Condon	215,000 5,000	5,000
Eric Wasserson	202,000 -23,000	-23,000
Brian Brubaker	152,000 17,000	17,000

Daniel Negreanu	134,000 -41,000	-41,000

Mike Watson	120,000 46,000	46,000
Eli Elezra	116,000 -9,000	-9,000

07-05-2013 02:28 UTC-7

Day 2 Concludes; David "ODB" Baker Leads Star-Studded Final 10

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 0 ante

It was another fast-paced day in Event #59: $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball on Thursday as Day 2 played from 88 players all of the way down to 10. And what a line-up players remaining, led overnight by last year's third-place finisher in this same event, David "ODB" Baker.

The afternoon saw several familiar faces hitting the rail shy of the top 30 and the cash, with Jason Mercier, Joe Tehan, Steve Zolotow, Shane Schleger, Daniel Idema, David Bach, Scott Clements, Gavin Smith, and Tom Schneider among them.

Just before the dinner break Timothy Finne became the unfortunate 31st-place finisher to bubble the event, after which the march to the payout desk began with Ryan Tepen (30th) and Jon Turner (29th) simultaneously busting on the first post-bubble hand.

A couple of former bracelet winners soon followed in Naoya Kihara (28th) and Dario Alioto (27th), with a couple more — Marco Johnson (16th) and Konstantin Puchkov (14th) — among those lasting until the latter portion of the evening, as did start-of-day-2 chip leader Juijen Chang who ended his run in 13th.

Meanwhile it was three-time bracelet winner Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi emerging as the big stack during the early evening, and for a time it looked as though he'd likely end the night bagging the most of anyone. But David Chiu overtook him late, and then David "ODB" Baker passed them both to carry the lead to tomorrow's Day 3.

As mentioned, it's quite a line-up returning tomorrow, including no less than six WSOP bracelet holders in Baker (1), Chiu (5), Mizrachi (3), Scott Seiver (1), Eli Elezra (1), and 2013 WSOP Player of the Year contender Daniel Negreanu (5).

Action resumes at 2 p.m. on Friday. Be sure to return then to PokerNews to see who among this top group of players emerges to claim the Event #59 WSOP bracelet.

Tags: David "ODB" Baker

Event #59: $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Day 2 Completed