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2013 WSOP – Event #37 Plays past its Second Day
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2013-06-22 09:09
The start of the second day of the $5k Limit Holdem event of the
2013 WSOP (#37 of the Series) saw a field of 103 players belly up to its tables, survivors of an original starting field of 170. After the customary 10 levels of action, only 12 players managed to have their tickets punched for Day 3. The player who finished Day 2 with the largest stack was Todd Witteles, who had 442k chips bagged.
Witteles is no stranger to the WSOP: in 2005, he won the $3k Limit Holdem event, taking home a $347.3k prize. He’s obviously looking to add another bracelet to that trophy case now. Despite the fact that he will indeed start Day 3 from pole position, Witteles isn’t guaranteed anything yet, especially not when one considers that Greg Mueller and Ronnie Bardah are the two players breathing down his neck in the chip-counts.
Given the high buy-in nature of the event, it surprised nobody that the “name” crowd was represented by droves of players. Many of these players had their bracelet dreams dashed on Day 2 though:
PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu fell by the side, together with Phil Ivey and Jason Mercier. Other players who left the tournament with nothing to show for their efforts were Mike Leah, Shawn Buchanan and Joe Cassidy. All these players were early casualties.
Danny Warchol’s elimination signaled the bursting of the money bubble. He was sent to the rail by Witteles himself.
With the money-bubble safely out of the way, the flow of the action gathered some much-needed momentum. Scores of players were eliminated during this stage: Brock Parker was bounced in 18th place, followed by David Chiu and Dustin Smith in 17th and 16th places respectively.
Bruno Fitoussi bit the dust in 13th place.
PokerStars’ 2013 WSOP Main Event qualifiers are still running and there’s still time to secure a seat for pocket change.
