Luis "luis_faria" Faria Bags Top Stack at End of Day 2 in $10,300 NLH WCOOP Main Event
After a brisk seven hours of play in Day 2 of the $10,300 NLH World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event on PokerStars, Luis "luis_faria" Faria came out on top with a staggering 17,305,040, good for 216 big blinds. The next closest stack to his lead was "Ant1K1lller" who managed to secure 10,848,448 and will have 135 big blinds to put to work on Day 3.
After the dust settled there were 39 players remaining who will all be back in action tomorrow, November 8th starting at 5:30 p.m. GMT. With late registration being open until the start of the day there were many last minute hopefuls to join the action. A total of 551 entries with 209 re-entries created a massive $7,600,000 in the prize pool with the winner taking home $1,293,825 at the end of Day 4.
Many big name pros were back in action on Day 2 but some who couldn't find the run good magic included online crushers Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden, Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle, and high roller regular Mike "SirWatts" Watson.
$10,300 WCOOP Main Event Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luis "luis_faria" Faria | Portugal | 17,305,040 | 216 |
| 2 | "Ant1K1lller" | Kyrgyzstan | 10,848,448 | 135 |
| 3 | "SerVlaMin" | United Kingdom | 9,740,081 | 121 |
| 4 | "YannickPoker1" | Austria | 9,531,082 | 119 |
| 5 | Jans "Graftekkel" Arends | Netherlands | 9,503,679 | 119 |
| 6 | Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker | Austria | 8,997,668 | 112 |
| 7 | "saiiizika" | Brazil | 7,868,126 | 98 |
| 8 | Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos | Spain | 7,497,056 | 93 |
| 9 | "3betwizkid" | United Kingdom | 7,410,860 | 92 |
| 10 | "boerni21" | Hungary | 7,337,791 | 91 |
Day 2 Action
At the start of Day 2 things got off to a hot start with many all-ins early on. Team PokerStars Pros Fintan "easywithaces" Hand, Alejandro "[Papo]AR" Lococo, and Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis all hit the rail within the first couple levels.
Other PokerStars Team Pros that made deep runs but couldn't close out a Day 3 finish included Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes (77th - $25,102), Sam "SamSquid" Grafton (64th - $25,102) and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg (61st - $30,595) whos pocket twos fell short to the ace-ten of Day 1 chip leader Thorsten "juicetus" Legit.
Mataos bagged a healthy stack of 7,497,056 and can thank his well timed pocket kings against the ace-king for 2014 WSOP Main Event winner Martin "M.nosbocaJ" Jacobson who couldn't find improvement and was sent out in 91st place, only four spots away from the money.
Blinds will resume at 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante and average stack being 60 big blinds. Be sure to stick with PokerNews as we will be here all tournament long to bring you all the updates.