We began Day 2 with 205 players and reached the money in the fourth level of play. When all was said and done, we were down to our final 26.
The end-of-day chip leader was Jacob Schindler (711,000) who increased his stack almost ten-fold in the last four levels of play.
Daniel Makowsky and James Mackey came into the day as our chip leaders, but bust in 101st and 87th place respectively. Some notable players that made the money, but fell short of Day 3, included Barny Boatman (75th), Dan O’Brien (55th), Jesse Sylvia (52nd), Keven Stammen (49th) and James Dempsey (44th).
Hot on Schindler’s heels is Ryan Olisar (686,000) who scored a huge double up through Matthew Lapossie. Lapossie would recover though and his active play has him positioned 4th in chips (623,000). We will also keep an eye on Ryan Jaconetti who was also very active here on Day 2 and is stacked third in chips at 663,000.
Notables Dylan Linde, Layne Flack and Matt Affleck also survived the day and will be looking to run deep into Day 3.
We will be back at it tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time as the 26 remaining players will have their eye on WSOP gold and a first place prize of $548,460. Please join us tomorrow for complete Day 3 action.
Pierre Neuville got the last of his chips in the middle preflop with the , but he could not catch up to the of Christian Jeppsson and Neuville quietly headed to the payout desk as play wrapped for the night.
We caught the action with a completed board of and a ton of chips in the middle. Matthew Lapossie was facing a huge all in bet from Ryan Olisar and, after some contemplation, slid out chips for the call.
"Full house," Olisar announced and Lapossie flung his cards into the muck after witnessing the tabled of Olisar.
After the hand, they were racking their chips to move tables and Olisar curiously asked Lapossie, "did you flop it?" Lapossie shook his head yes and moved to his next seat assignment.
Manig Loeser open-shoved all in and Matthew Lapossie made the call from the small blind.
Loeser:
Lapossie:
Lapossie was in bad shape, but the flop quickly fixed that. The turn and river assured that Lapossie would continue to build and Loeser headed to the payout desk.
Welcome to Day 2 of Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em. On Day 1 we saw 992 entries whittled to 205 by day’s end.
Daniel Makowsky was the overnight chip leader, stacked at 124,500. James Mackey (116,800) is right on his heels, thanks to a few big pots in the final level of play. Other notables looking to make deep runs are James Dempsey (95,000), Barny Boatman (90,000), Matt Affleck (64,200), and Jason Somerville (64,200). Also making it to Day 2 was WSOP.com qualifier Mark Darner, who won his seat online for just a $33 investment.
We are set to play 10 levels today and when the money bubble bursts, the top 117 will be walking away with a part of the $2,708,160 prize pool.
PokerNews' Live Reporting Team will be on hand to bring you Day 2 action starting at 1 p.m. local time today, so come back then as we find out together who makes the final day of Event #39.