Political polling guru Nate Silver and 2023 WPT Prime Championship winner Calvin Anderson are among the many 299 gamers who bagged chips on Day 2 of the $10,400 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship Tuesday night time.
Malcolm Trayner bagged the chip lead. Ernest Bush went out in three hundredth place, in any other case often called the bubble.
The event at Wynn Las Vegas, which noticed 2,392 entrants register, all vying for the $3,138,900 first place prize, attracted a number of the greatest names within the sport. World Poker Tour champions, WPT Prime Tour winners, poker legends, leisure gamers, and WPT commentators Tony Dunst, Lynn Gilmartin, and Vince Van Patten, have been among the many returning crowd on Day 2.
Recapping the Day’s Motion
Play started at 11 a.m. PT in Las Vegas on Tuesday with 821 gamers nonetheless standing. Some huge identify gamers equivalent to Dunst and Poker Corridor of Famer John Hennigan have been eradicated properly earlier than the cash bubble burst. Van Patten, co-host of the World Poker Tour on tv since its inception in 2002, was the one member of the published trio to achieve the cash.
Because the bubble started to method late within the session, the stress was on the brief stacks. A min-cash is price $19,600. Mike Leah is maybe probably the most lucky participant to have cashed.
The WPT Champions Membership member, with 302 gamers remaining, was all the way down to lower than a full huge blind and was all in routinely within the huge blind with 8x3x. His opponent turned over Kx3x, however an 8x appeared on the river to maintain the Canadian poker professional alive. He would sneak into the cash one hand away from once more being within the huge blind.
Bush, nonetheless, wasn’t fairly so lucky. He moved all in with Qx10x and bumped into pocket queens, and was out one spot shy of the cash. The remaining 299 gamers all breathed a sigh of aid and can come again at midday on Wednesday for Day 3. There will not be one other pay soar till 240th place, and it is a minimal one ($2,000 extra). The intense pay jumps will not happen till Days 4 and 5,
Trayner bagged 3,275,000 chips, giving him a slight edge over David “ODB” Baker (2,830,000) and Scott Stewart (2,790,000).
WPT Prime champions Lorenz Schollhorn (1,755,000), Anderson (1,675,000), and Fabian Gumz (1,300,000) all bagged above common stacks.
Mikita Badziakouski, former PokerNews editor Mo Nuwwarah, Chino Rheem and Maria Konnikova all discovered luggage. Igor Kurganov, in his return to poker, has additionally cashed, and for the third straight 12 months.
The WPT will livestream Day 3 motion on the tour’s YouTube channel.
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*Photographs courtesy of the World Poker Tour.
