The forty seventh place participant within the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble Championship busted at round 8:30 p.m. ET Sunday night time, guaranteeing all remaining gamers would go house with cash.
Josh Hopkins flopped a nine-high flush and had over 20 huge blinds left, however would lose the hand to the larger stack, Joe Jordan, who flopped a king-high flush. The cooler flop despatched Hopkins house one spot shy of the cash within the $5,000 buy-in event at bestbet Jacksonville. All gamers who escaped the bubble had a assured minimal payday of $9,100.
It took 13 fingers on the stone bubble earlier than Hopkins busted, after which it could take practically 20 minutes earlier than one other participant was eradicated, a rarity in event poker. However gamers would fall a lot quicker all through the rest of the 12-hour session.
Recapping Day 2 Motion
Josh Reichard, a WPT Champions Membership member, entered Day 2 with a large chip lead over his 120 rivals. He’d hover round his start-of-day stack via the primary couple of ranges on Sunday, however would ultimately fade and bust in thirtieth place for $10,900.
Eric Afriat, who’s one win away from tying Darren Elias for the file with 4 World Poker Tour titles, went in the other way of Reichard on Day 2. He started the session with a middling stack however would shortly go from simply over 100,000 chips to being the primary participant to crack 1 million chips lengthy earlier than the dinner break.
Prime 5 Chip Counts Following Day 2
Afriat did not maintain the chip lead all through the day, however he did proceed to extend his stack and completed third in chips at 1,700,000. Nick Funaro bagged the Day 2 chip lead with 2,250,000, whereas Jordan completed the session at 2,050,000. Frank Wyville (1,555,000) and Francis Anderson (1,350,000) spherical out the highest 5.
Solely 18 gamers bagged chips, all nonetheless with a shot to win the $347,850 first place prize to be awarded on the closing desk in Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday. Thad McNulty (885,000), 2015 world champion Joe McKeehen (490,000), and WPT commentator Tony Dunst (385,000) are amongst these nonetheless standing. Dunst will enter Day 3, which kicks off at midday ET on Monday, with the smallest stack.
All remaining gamers have a assured minimal payout of $16,800, and the large pay jumps will not happen till the ultimate desk approaches. Talking of the ultimate desk, Day 3 will not conclude till the sphere, which started with 361 entrants, is down to only six, one in every of whom will change into the following member of the WPT Champions Membership.
*Photographs courtesy of Katerina Lukina/World Poker Tour.
