Tripodi Leads Returners for Day 2a/2b
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Welcome back for the first of two Day 2 flights of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main event. Today survivors from Days 1a and 1b return to continue their tourney journeys — a total of 1,880 players — with each group segregated and playing separately in the different rooms here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
From the 584 players making up the Day 1a crowd Evan Panesis, Nicholas Crisp, and Abdulasiz Almashal are returning to the biggest stacks as each was able to build more than 180,000 chips during the five two-hour levels they played during Saturday's first flight. Also coming back from that flight to above-average stacks are Farzad Bonyadi, Nick Maimone, Richard Lyndaker, Daniel Makowsky, and Jason DeWitt.
Meanwhile from the 1,296 in the Day 1b group Clement Tripodi was the only one managing to accumulate more than 200,000 by night's end, with Jevon Lam and Daniel Cates occupying the next two positions among that field with stacks of more than 180,000. Miguel Proulx, Sorel Mizzi, Adam Friedman, Raj Vohra, Annette Obrestad, and Eoghan O'Dea also have six-figure stacks to start the day.
The Day 1a group will all remain in the Amazon room today ("A" for Amazon) while the Day 1b survivors will reassemble in the Brasilia and Pavilion rooms, and all will play five more two-hour levels today. We're just minutes away from the call to "shuffle up and deal," so be sure to stick with PokerNews throughout the day to see who emerges today to play in Thursday's Day 3.
As we await the start of play, here's Sarah Grant with today's update from the WSOP:
giving no help to de Melo who still needed to draw an ace or a queen. The turn 
wasn't what she needed either, and the 
river was a blank as well allowing Andrew Brown to take down the pot and claim the scalp of the lovely de Melo.
, and his opponent, Darrell Ticehurst, called.
, Lehmanski fired out a second bullet worth 10,600, and Ticehurst again called.
completed the board, and Lehmanski emptied the chamber, firing a third and final bullet worth 36,700. Ticehurst tanked for longer than he had on the two prior streets combined before pulling out chips from his stack. He then counted how much he would have left if he called and was wrong - around 75,000 - and pushed the small stack forward.
- and Ticehurst turned over 
for a pair of aces.
on the turn.
, the action was checked to Castelluccio and he bet out 4,600 to prompt two quick folds.
was checked round to Yaginuma who tossed in 2,300. Holloway sized up the bet and slid forward his only stack of chips that amounted to an all in of roughly 21,200. The original raiser and Yaginuma folded and Holloway collected the pot.
and 
to prove he had it.
, and Seidel bet 5,500 when checked to. This time, the button folded and the first player called. A 
fell on the river, and Seidel made it 13,000 this time, about half of his opponent's stack. The player thought for about 30 seconds before tossing three orange T5,000 chips in. Seidel showed 
for a set, and he took down the pot.
.
. Brunson would only need to dodge runner runner, and the 
on the turn ended things. The meaningless river was the 
, and Brunson notched a huge double up to 161,000.