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2013 WSOP – Second Day of Event #20 is a Wrap
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2013-06-12 05:55
The second day of the $1.5k Omaha Hi/Lo Eight or Better event (#20 of the
2013 WSOP) saw 219 players return to its tables with one immediate objective in mind: to make it past the money bubble. Indeed, with only the top 117 finishers paid, it was a race down to the bubble in the early part of the day. The field didn’t just manage to blow right past the bubble though, it actually played down to the final 22. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Dale Beaudoin, who amassed 465k chips, shooting out far ahead of the pack. The only player who came somewhat close to his leading stack was Jason Rivkin, who finished with 418k chips to his name.
Quite a number of players were forced to go home empty-handed before the money bubble was reached and among them there were quite a few high profile players too. Mike Sexton, Eric Crain, Max Pescatori and Nick Grippo all finished outside of the money. Mike Matusow failed to get paid this time too.
After the bursting of the bubble, the action sped up again, claiming the tournament lives of yet another bunch of “name” players. Barry Greenstein faded away during this stage of the
poker tournament, together with Men Nguyen, John Racener, Brian Hastings and Max Steinberg.
While the attrition was indeed high among the “name” crowd, quite a few such players managed to sneak into the top 22 after all: Todd Brunson made the cut (actually, he finished 4th overall, with a stack of 315k chips), as did John Monnette and Maria Ho. Jennifer Harman survived as well, albeit on a rather short-ish stack of only 80k chips. Randy Ohel finished within the top 22 as well.
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