2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Collopy's late charge gave him about 300,000 for Day 3.
After eight hours of play, the second of the two Day 2 flights has come to an end. It was a comparatively short day in WSOP terms but it produced plenty of action.
Perhaps the most talked-about hand to emerge from Day 2b was a hand between Prahlad Friedman and Ted Bort. As was related to us after the fact, Bort shoved against Friedman, then eventually called a clock when Friedman was slow to decide what to do. With a floor person counting down the final ten seconds of the clock, Friedman appeared to call all in at the count of "One." Neither the dealer nor the floor heard him, however, and immediately killed his hand at the zero count. The entire table protested that Friedman had called, especially Bort -- who tabled what was the best hand. Friedman would have been eliminated. Instead Friedman remains alive heading into Day 3, as does Bort.
Otherwise the theme of the day was the elimination of many of the notable names. George Danzer. Phil Ivey. Todd Brunson. David Baker. John Phan. Gavin Griffin. J.C. Tran. Doyle Brunson. Jon Little. The list of eliminations goes on and on.
There were a few well-known name making waves near the top of the counts. Bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst was zeroing in on 300,000 chips before settling at 265,000 chips to end the day. The same was true of Gabriel Walls, who spent large portions of the day as the chip leader with 400,000 before falling back to 241,000 by the end of the night. The opposite was true of Jon van Fleet and Jim "Queso" Collopy, who both chipped up at the end of the night to settle just south of 300,000.
The overall leader for the day appears to be David Assouline, who bagged up 387,800. So far we haven't seen any bigger end-of-Day 2b stack. If that count holds, it will make Assouline the overall leader heading into Day 3 on Monday, when the entire field will consolidate for the first time.
Tomorrow is a day off for the World Series of Poker, the first and only day off the entire seven weeks of the festival. Survivors will spend the day trying their best to rest and relax in preparation to re-join the fray on Monday. It's unlikely that we'll hit the money by the end of the day Monday. All of these players are going to have to go through another full day of play without being assured a return on their $10,000 investment.
Top Chip Counts
1 David Assouline 387,800
2 Ricardo Fasanaro 380,000
3 Matt Reed 337,800
4 Jim Collopy 305,100
5 Jon Van Fleet 295,600
6 Charles Sylvestre 292,300
7 Sasha Rosewood 279,500
8 Vanessa Selbst 265,000
9 Marc Sander 265,000
10 Gabriel Walls 241,000
Phil Galfond 203,000
Jason Mercier 186,000
David Benjamine 173,000
Allen Cunningham 156,000
Johnny Lodden 128,000
Ross Boatman 120,000
John Kabbaj 100,000
Dan Harrington 80,000
Stephen Chidwick 75,000
Roland De Wolfe 60,000
Paul Parker 46,000
Kara Scott 40,000
Roberto Romenello 36,000