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WSOPE £10,000 Main Event Day 2 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-09-30 10:22
The 179-player field that started in Day 2 of the WSOPE’s £10,000 Main Event was bustling with poker legends, “name” pros and online poker celebrities.
Daniel Negreanu started the day with the chip lead, and put in a very solid effort to protect his stack and to pick up some more chips by the end of the day to move into 9th position on the provisional chip leader board.
Poker legend Doyle Brunson also took part as well as WSOP bracelet record holder Phil Hellmuth, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, John Juanda, Scott Montgomery, David Rheem and Brian “shrugby” Townsend.
With such players at the tables, the eliminations got underway as soon as play commenced. Scott Montgomery ejected Tom Dwan in one of the first acts of “aggression” of the day. Dwan’s 3s,4s ran into Montgomery’s pocket rockets on a board which did not improve any of the starting hands involved.
Chris Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen and David Rheem were also amongst those eliminated early on. Phil Hellmuth once again bumped into Sherkan Farnood whom he once called “the worst player in the world”. Farnood’s 5,5 went on to beat Hellmuth K,K in an apparent twist of fate meant to further spite the world record holder.
Negreanu basically busted Ben Grundy near the end of the day, as he made a freak straight on the river. Grundy still has some chips left after the showdown, but it only took a couple more hands for him to fall victim to the attrition.
Erik Seidel was one of the most successful players of Day 2 as he climbed up all the way to 3rd on the chip count. He took a huge pot from Jean Thorel when he made a set of aces on the river. Dave Ulliott, Phil Laak Johnny Lodden and Alexander Kostritsyn all survived Day 2.
Andy Bloch ended up with the chip lead when the line was drawn at the end of the day. He chipped up to overtake “shrugby” in one of the last few hands of the day. He finished with 321,600 chips, followed by Brian Townsend with 290,100, Erik Seidel with 282,300 and John Juanda with 252,500.
