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WSOPE Main Event Day 2

328 survivors from Day 1 came back to the tables at the Hotel Barriere for Day 2 of the WSOPE Main Event 2011. The action took six levels and Constant Rijkenberg emerged as a chip leader at the end of the day.

The new chip leader will have to keep a close eye on those chips though and not follow the suit of Jamie Rosen, who began the day in the lead and left home with nothing after allowing his biggest stack to bleed off. Tommy Vedes who started Day 2 in the third place also hit the rail very quickly just after the first level. The departure for the big stacks brought some new players to the top. First it was Rifat Palevic, who rose to the top from one of the toughest tables in the room having outplayed Jake Cody, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Sam Holden, 2011 November Niner, and Johny Chan. Palevic started the day with a reasonable 100,000 chips stack and through extremely aggressive tight play he built it up to over half a million chips before the start of the dinner break. Although he slid down to 353,500 by the end of the night it is still high enough to keep him among the top of the leaderboard.

Other players who not only survived Day 2 but added healthy chip countss to their bags were Hoyt Corkins with 429,900 chips, Erik Seidel with 297,900, Chris Moorman with 167,800 and Victor Ramdin with 156,900 chips. Other well-known players who did well were Tony G, Robert Mizrachi, John Duthie, Patrik Antonius and Freddy Deeb.

Hake Cody is one of just a few men in the world to win the Triple Crown. He put a brilliant show during the day and added 323,200 chips into his bad by the end of the night enhancing his reputation of one of the most dangerous players in the modern poker.

Three women had a successful day too. Melanie Weisner, who started with a short stack, slowly grinded entire day and finished with an average chip count of 118,600 chips. Liv Boeree bagged 202,300 chips and Rebecca Selvin is still in action with reasonable 108,100 chips.

Of course there were plenty of casualties on the day including Scotty Nguyen, David Ulliott, Leo Margets, Peter Jetten, Johnny Chan, Antonin Teisseire and Bruno Fitoussi.

115 players made it through into Day 3 to burst the money bubble and play into the money. The rest of the tournament will be held in the eight-handed format.