Eli Elezra has had a successful afternoon thus far after beginning the day with less than 10,000 chips and in 81st position of the 88 players returning for Day 2.
Just now Elezra drew a to bust Joe Tehan, thus pushing his stack up over 60,000 and well above the average with just 54 players left.
Mike Watson caught our eye earlier when we saw that his chip stack had increased to 56,000. Well he got moved to a rather tough table where Jeff Lisandro, Tom Schneider, and Gavin Smith were residing, but it appears Watson was just fine with the change, as his stack has ballooned to a chip leading 98,000. More over, all three of the pros mentioned have seen their stacks shrink since Watson arrived.
Yesterday, Juijen Chang could do no wrong. He held the chip lead for the second half of the day, and was never in danger of losing that title. However, the exact opposite is the case today, as he has lost more then half his stack so far today. We just caught him taking a small pot off of Konstantin Puchkov when Chang's was good, but even with that pot, he only has 25,000 left, a far cry from the 66,000 he started the day with.
David Bach was just all in for his last 2,600 prior to the initial draw against Dany Georges.
Bach drew one card on each of the three draws, while Georges drew two, then stood pat thereafter. "I hope I'm not drawing dead," said Bach before the third draw, and Georges shook his head. "I don't think you are."
Georges then tabled , and when Bach turned over the table together added "now you are" to the assessment of Bach's prospects. The "Gunslinger" wished all a "good game" and headed off into the sunset.
David "ODB" Baker has made it no secret on twitter how much he has struggled this summer, but he is hoping to salvage it with a deep run in this event, where he finished 3rd last year. In a recent hand, we saw Baker heads up with David Blatte, where Baker bet out after the second draw. Blatte called, then drew one card, while Baker stayed pat. Blatte check called another bet from Baker, and almost mucked his hand before Baker could even turn his hand over, .
After stacking up those chips, Baker is up to 78,000.
Timothy Finne was just all in before the first draw for his last 1,200 versus Mikey Stotz. Stotz drew two, one, then one, while Finne drew three, one, then stood pat.
Finne showed while Stotz tabled , then squeezed his last card — a pairing — and Finne survived albeit still with a short stack.
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