PokerStars WCOOP 2020

After nearly eight hours of play, Hungary's "benton24" bagged a chip leading stack of 21,233,809 in chips to end Day 2 of the WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE Main Event at PokerStars.

"benton24" wasn't the only player waving the Hungarian flag that will head to Day 3 with a big stack as both "anth0nypappa" and Day 1 chip leader "uzzy993" bagged top ten stacks.

Other players near the top of the leaderboard to end Day 2 included Romania's Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu, Brazil's "JuLiOcTas", and Indonesia's Akira "Clutch Hero" Ohyama.

2020 WCOOP Low $55 NLHE Main Event Day 2 Leaderboard

Day 2 Recap

More than 4,000 new entrants joined the action between the time Day 1 ended and Day 2 began to bring the final count up to 38,660 entrants with 12,570 players in action.

This increased the prize pool up to $1,933,000 to demolish the $1,250,000 guarantee on the event. A total of 5,463 players were guaranteed at least a min-cash with the $186,841 set aside for the eventual winner on Wednesday, Sept. 22.

It took less than two hours for the bubble to break with Ukraine's "vanja-berkyt" being the last player to exit the tournament empty-handed.

Five of the six PokerStars Ambassadors that started Day 2 were also unable to cash including Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban, Felix "xflixx" Schneiders, Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward, Georgina "GJReggie" James, and James "OP-Poker James" Mackenzie.

Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye had a better fate than his fellow Ambassadors and not only managed a min-cash but laddered up before exiting in 2,477th place for $166.

The day was scheduled to end with 160 players but three players were eliminated during the final hand to make it 158 players returning for tomorrow's Day 3 starting at 1:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST.

The action will resume with blinds still at 80,000/160,000 with an ante of 20,000 and will play down to a nine-max final table.

Stay tuned to see who makes the final table of the WCOOP Low NLHE $55 Main Event at PokerStars.

Day 2 has ended after "mixerhr1" was eliminated in 161st place. Going out at another table on the last hand of the day was "dj_kalla" in 160th place.

The 159 remaining players are each guaranteed a $1,017 payout and will play down until the nine-max final table is reached.

Stay tuned for a recap of Day 2 of the 2020 WCOOP Low Main Event at PokerStars.

"hoodie333" jammed for 1.8 million with from middle position. Leonid "LeBroHbka" Logunov three-bet jammed for a bit more with and the rest of the table folded.

The ran out on the board and "hoodie333" was eliminated.

There are 166 players remaining. The day will end when the field is trimmed down to 160 players.

"Stepa552884" opened to 280,000 from middle position before they called a three-bet by Alessandro "HakiD93" Pichierri to 700,000 from the cutoff.

"Stepa552884" check-called a bet of 560,000 after the came on the flop. This player check-called again, this time for 1,120,00 after the came on the turn.

Both players checked after the completed the board on the river. "Stepa552884" turned over for quads to win the hand.