WPT Championship Day 2 Round-up
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
The field for Day 2 of the 2008 World Poker Tour Championship may
be the most impressive line-up of players assembled for one
tournament. With an entire room packed with online and live pros,
there were often tables with half a dozen scarily good pla
The field for Day 2 of the 2008 World Poker Tour Championship may
be the most impressive line-up of players assembled for one
tournament. With an entire room packed with online and live pros,
there were often tables with half a dozen scarily good players on
them. Anyone who did make it through the day would have been sure
to be relieved.
Of course, when you have a star-studded field such as this, you
tend to get a star-studded rail too. Nenad Medic, Allen Kessler,
Layne Flack, Haralabos Voulgaris, Shannon Shorr, Erick Lindgren,
Michael Binger, Freddy Deeb, David “The Dragon” Pham , Michael 'The
Grinder' Mizrachi, Tuan Le, Alan Goehring, Joe Hachem, Jerry Yang,
Sam Farha, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson,
Antonio 'The Magician' Esfandiari, Erica Scheonberg, Paul Wasicka,
Ted Forrest, and one Phil Hellmuth were all spectators come the end
of the day. That's one tough looking side game right there...
At the other end of the spectrum, some players were setting
themselves up for a major assault on Day 3, armed with some monster
chip stacks. Cory Carroll bagged 356,000 chips, many of which he
earned after doubling up through Tom Dwan, while Andrew Robl got
many of his 267,000 courtesy of Dario Minieri. However, neither of
the two players could touch overnight chip leader Robert Mizrachi,
who is sat on 523,200.
One name which many will recognise at the top of the leaderboard
is Carlos Mortensen. He’s well in contention for setting WPT
history and defending the title he won last year. His stack of
320,000 chips mean the Spaniard has every chance to do the
unthinkable – you can be sure he’ll make some interesting
sculptures out of those!