Rusnak Leading a Field of First-Time Bracelet Hopefuls After Day 2 of Event #80 - $1,500 NLHE/PLO
Ten more levels have been completed in Event #80: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em, Pot Limit Omaha and Day 2 is officially complete. A total of 340 players returned today from the 1,251 total entries and after the final hand, 47 survived to put their chips in a bag for the night.
Leading the way is Francis Rusnak who ended the day with 2,334,000 in chips. Rusnak entered the day with 99,300, just over the average stack of around 91,900. He eclipsed the one million-chip mark shortly before the last break of the night before nearly doubling that figure in the last two hours of play.
Second in chips is Gary Bolden (2,100,00), the only other person over two million chips. Next on the list is Jerry Odeen, who bagged 1,957,000. Those three are ahead of the field by a wide margin, with Dominique Mosley (1,530,000) and Adam Demersseman (1,249,000) rounding out the top five stacks.
The day started out as expected with eliminations coming at quite the pace. The field shrank to 188, the number required to reach the money shortly after the second break of the day when Juha Helppi busted Anthony Zinno with pocket kings against jack-ten in a round of No-Limit Hold’em.
Some other notables who made it into the money before being eliminated included Chris Moorman (187th place - $2,250), Darryll Fish (166th place - $2,260), Loren Klein (156th place - $2,308), Calvin Anderson (94th place - $2,928), Brian Hastings (93rd place - $2,928), and Mark Gregorich (80th place - $3,227).
Of the 49 players left, only four remain that have won a WSOP bracelet in their careers. Steve Sung (734,000), Ayaz Mahmood (531,000), David “ODB” Baker (515,000), and Ankush Mandavia (250,000) will all have their work cut out for them when chips come out of bags and play resumes.
Cards will be in the air on Day 3 at noon local time on Friday, July 12. Play is scheduled to occur until a winner has been crowned, but with 47 players left it is likely that the completion of another 10 levels will not be enough to crown that champion. Come back to PokerNews for updates on all the action as the tournament progresses.
with two diamonds and Ahmed continued with a bet of 55,000. Chabra raised the pot and Ahmed committed the rest of his chips.
with two diamonds
to give Ahmed top set but the river was the 
to give Chabra the nut flush and send Ahmed home a few moments before the end of the night.
with roughly 86,000 in the middle and Iaron Lightbourne found himself at risk of elimination for roughly 152,000 against Jeremy Kottler.
and the river was the 
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and Langrock tabled 
, sending him to the payout desk.
and all three players checked to see the 
landed on the turn.
. This is his second cash in as many days after being eliminated from the Main Event yesterday in 320th place for $38,240.
to give Deeb a pair of nines. He added the turn and the river brought "two squirts of a water bottle," alluding to Anderson's "showering" some players when they busted yesterday in Day 1.
giving Taylor-Brady a pair, but Kamphues aces were still ahead and he picked up a flush draw, the turn was a good one for Taylor-Brady when the 
making Kamphues aces up to eliminate both Lambard and Taylor-Brady.
