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Day 2A - Short stacks drop like flies, large stacks increase. Brian Schaedlich builds up a stack of 801,000 chips
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2008-07-10 18:37
Day 2A saw all the survivors of Day 1A and Day 1B head to the tables once again. Short stacks were soon ground up as they adopted a do-or-die approach to the game, thus allowing the larger stacks to prosper.
Paul Wasicka, the 2006 Main Event runner-up was an exception. He began the day on a short stack too, but he managed to pamper it along and got eliminated relatively late in the day. Robert Varkonyi didn’t fair much better either. Svetlana Gromenkova (the reigning WSOP Ladies’ Champion) suffered a staggering blow on her pocket rockets, as an opponent flopped a set of 9s. A few hands later, she was out.
Phillip Hilm, the one with the fiery stare, managed to double up early on by hitting 4 Jacks, but he would run out of luck on his next attempt, as his pocket 5s were no match for Thomas Fougeron’s rockets, who took out Harold Cromwell too with the same blow. Jens Voertmann, the winner of this year’s $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, got a taste of what it felt like heading to the rail, surprisingly early on.
Brian Schaedlick took up positions behind an increasingly menacing chip stack as he connected a straight on the river right before the break. Erick Lindgren made it to the break too, but busted out soon as the game got underway again at the hands of Brian Brubaker. First he rammed a pair of Jacks into Brubaker’s Kings, then he pitted his A,J against the latter’s pocket 7s and failed to improve.
As the blinds leveled up, the tide of eliminations soon burst the dam: Billy Argyros, Barry Greenstein, Billy Baxter and Martin Klaser all bit the dust, the latter eliminated by Brian Schaedlich himself. Only 466 players survived the day, out of a 1,251 starters. Patrick Antonius, Eric Seidel, Chau Giang and the good old Hoyt Corkins all lived to do battle at the green felt another day.
Schaedlich’s humongous chip lead confined Hunter Frey to 2nd with 397,000 chips, followed by Jeremiah Smith with 386,000.
