WSOP Day 2: $10,000 World Championship PLHE

We began play today with 70 players remaining in the field. It was a pretty stacked event all around as I discussed yesterday. The pros did really well all around, young and old, online and live. Eli Elezra held the chip lead for most of the day, but was eliminated in 19th position after what looked to be a very, very deep run in the making. The play was long and tiresome last night. We began at 2pm local time and didn't finish until 4:45am, almost a solid 15 hours. The players must have been beat.

The final table of the first event at the 2008 WSOP is going to be absolutely amazing. 7 out of the 9 seats at the table are big names, while the other two players are just as big in the online world. Here's the final table seating arrangements and chip counts.

Seat 1: Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers 675,000
Seat 2: Chris Bell 455,000
Seat 3: Amit "amak316" Makhija 525,000
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius 230,000
Seat 5: Andy Bloch 2,115,000
Seat 6: Mike Sexton 1,130,000
Seat 7: Phil Laak 425,000
Seat 8: Nenad Medic 1,200,000
Seat 9: Kathy Liebert 285,000

I earlier picked Antonius and Medic to go deep in the tournament along with Vivek "Psyduck" Rajkumar. Vivek didn't make it, but Antonius and Medic are both at the final table. If this isn't an amazing final table than I don't know what is. All of these players have been playing really, really well and should continue to provide us with a great game to watch come final table time. Out of all the skill and ability at the final table, only Sexton and Liebert currently hold bracelets. Laak and Medic do have WPT titles under their belts. 1st place is also almost $800,000! This should be for great competition.

During play last night, Gavin Smith and Todd Brunson showed up from the bars. Both seemed pretty drunk, especially Gavin. He clowned with the final table of 10 players and also threw some ice at Bloch. It was quite fun and I'm sure he'll be there tomorrow to rail. He was most interested in how Chris Bell was doing.

My top 3 are:

1 - Nenad Medic
2 - Andy Bloch
3 - Mike Sowers

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