End of Day 2
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Play is now over for the day with 66 players showing on the board. The chip leader, by a mere 900 chips, is Viktor Blom who sits with a huge (nearly three times the average) 443,200 just 900 chips ahead of Serbian Bojan Gledovic's 442,300.
Today was probably the highest quality field that poker will see all year, usually at a tournament, there will be a particular table and the reporters will go, "Oh that table looks very tough."
Today however, there was none of that, every table was incredibly tough with little or no spots that were easy. Truly, it was a case of the best players rising to the top and there was no surprises when Phil Ivey filled the top spot for most of the day. Although he dropped off towards the end, Ivey finished the day still near the top with 289,300 and among the chip leaders.
Reigning champion Barry Shulman was eliminated today and with the elimination too of John Juanda, ensures that a brand new champion will be crowned on Tuesday. Still in the hunt also are Nick Schulman, Nicolas Levi, Arnaud Mattern and Daniel Negreanu, the last of these hoping to make his 3rd successive WSOPE Main Event final table.
Tomorrow the tournament will play down through the bubble to its' final 27 players, before Monday will see these survivors wittled down to a final table.
Who will be there? You'll have to join us tomorrow at 12pm local time to find out!