The World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event continued on Sunday at Harveys Lake Tahoe. After Day 2, Cary Marshall is the chip leader with a chip stack of 1.65 million. Marshall’s closest competitor is Derrick Yamada, who bagged 1.585 million.
Of the 165 players who either survived to make Day 2 or bought in just as registration was closing, only 13 remain. The day started off great for Yamada, who moved all in against two opponents on a flop of
Yamada later eliminated Schwartz, calling his three-bet shove with king-queen. Schwartz’s king-jack was crushed, and he did not improve.
Later on, Yamada really shot up the charts when he made a thin call with one pair against John Deng. On a board of
Marshall made quite the hero call himself during Day 2. When faced with an all-in bet from Emmanuel Vacakis on a board of
Jesse Rockowitz didn’t finish the day with seven figures, but he had over a million chips several times. One particular reason Rockowitz didn’t finish with over a million chips is because he played an absolutely sick pot with Prabhakar Thonduru and Sharon Helldorfer. Rockowitz min-raised from under the gun with the blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000. Helldorfer moved all in on his direct left, Thonduru reshoved on her direct left, and the action folded back to Rockowitz, who snapped it off.
All three players tabled monsters:
Rockowitz:
Helldorfer:
Thonduru:
The
Miraculously, the
Rockowitz bounced back and was able to bag 974,000 chips.
Joining Helldorfer on the rain after the money bubble burst was Craig Gold, Christopher Neves, Jeff Bond, Andrew Higgins, and Josh Pollock. Mark Bonsack was also eliminated after took a big hit when McGrath hit a set of deuces on the river against him, and a few hands later he open-shipped with ace-seven. McGrath called him with ace-ten, and held.
Here are the remaining chip stacks:
Player | Chip Count |
---|---|
Cary Marshall | 1,650,000 |
Derrick Yamada | 1,585,000 |
Jesse Rockowitz | 974,000 |
John Deng | 803,000 |
Ping Liu | 720,000 |
Shawn Van Asdale | 650,000 |
Will Chao | 500,000 |
Sam McGrath | 331,000 |
Clint Baskin | 286,000 |
John Song | 279,000 |
Dick Hanley | 239,000 |
Narunat Pansuntorn | 223,000 |
Prabhakar Thonduru | 190,000 |
Among the survivors is Chris Baskin. He won this event in 2006 when it was still a $10,000 event, pocketing $372,240 in the process.
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