Day 2 of Event #45: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Begins at Noon.
A total of 97 players out of 1,438 made Day 2 of Event #45: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed, seeing a near doubling of last year’s field size, and today they will play down to a final table of five. The 1,438 entrants created a prizepool of $1,918,356 and a first place prize of $311,782, which all eyes will be on.
Leading the way is Joshua Stefansky who in the late levels of last night found himself catching a bluff of Chino Rheem to double up and land at the top of the chip counts. He comes into today with a stack of 1,660,000, the only stack over 1,000,000 in the tournament.
Following Stefansky’s lead is WSOP circuit ring winner John Riordan, who comes into today with the second largest stack at 972,000. Riordan is no stranger to playing higher stakes PLO, given his multiple final tables at the Poker Masters and U.S. Poker Open as well as a victory in the big bet mix at The U.S. Poker Open. He has yet to win a bracelet and today will look to put himself in prime position to do so.
Event #45: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Stefansky | United States | 1,660,000 | 166 |
| 2 | John Riordan | United States | 972,000 | 97 |
| 3 | Vincent Moscati | United States | 959,000 | 96 |
| 4 | Mark Liedtke | United States | 943,000 | 94 |
| 5 | Daniel Tordjman | France | 853,000 | 85 |
| 6 | Hossein Ghodosi | United States | 826,000 | 83 |
| 7 | Dylan Weisman | United States | 803,000 | 80 |
| 8 | David Levy | United States | 784,000 | 78 |
| 9 | Sander Van Wesemael | Netherlands | 772,000 | 77 |
| 10 | David Williams | United States | 769,000 | 77 |
Other players coming into the day with chips include WSOP bracelet winners Dylan Weisman (803,000), David Williams (769,000), Brandon Cantu (700,000), Marco Johnson (207,000) and Erick Lindgren (127,000). Each one of them will be looking to collect another piece of WSOP gold.
Players return to Level 18 with blinds at 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante. Rather than the 40-minute levels of Day 1, Day 2 levels will last 60-minutes each and players will have 15-minute breaks after every two levels, as well as a 60-minute dinner break at about 6:30. When they reach the final five, players will bag up for the night and return for Day 3 on Thursday (at a time yet to be determined) to play down to a winner.
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runout ended his day early. 
turn when Mark Liedtke bet 175,000 and was called by David Levy. 
and Liedtke checked. Levy cut out of a stack of 200,000 and Liedtke went into the tank. 
. Nickolai checked and Williams shoved, sending Nickolai into the tank. 
and Nanev continued for 50,000. Riordan min-raised to 100,000 and Nanev called. 
and the 
river peeled off. Nanev checked and Riordan shuffled some chips before shoving with enough to cover. Nanev snap-called and showed 
for a full house, queens full of fours, and Riordan mucked.
checked through to the river, where Newcombe bet out 90,000 when checked to. Williams decided to raised to 270,000 which folded out Koppel and Newcombe flashed 
river when John Riordan bet 100,000 and Joshua Stefansky quickly called. 
. Saechao led this time for 200,000 more, enough to cover Barat, and he called. 
but still held a pair of queens. Saechao had that beat thought with 
