Day 2 at the WPT World Poker Challenge
If day 1 at the World Poker Tour stop in Reno, Nevada, for the World Poker Challenge was a long, slow grind into the night, day 2 was its schizophrenic twin. It started fast, but then hit a wall toward the end of play to finish slowly. A field of 75 returned from the original 261, and they got down to business in a hurry to reach the final 45 players. But then the money bubble loomed close on the horizon, and play slowed down considerably on the path to 27.
Jordan Rich
It was a copy of Lindgren s strategy book World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table. He flipped through the chapters and asked Lindgren about key points in the book, to E-Dog s mild amusement.
The quick start of the morning saw many of the short-stacks perish on their final hands. Among the professionals lost during the first level were Eugene Todd
Ivey dominated during the early chaos of the day, and he increased his stack to 243,500, and then to 274,000, at a time when no one else approached 200,000.
After the first break, only 55 players remained, and things showed no signs of slowing down as the field managed to shrink to five tables by the end of the second level. The chips kept flying in and out of pots and players stacks at a fast rate, and Huck Seed
The third level of play saw a huge slowdown take over the tournament, as the money bubble was a realistic aspiration for the remaining short-stacks to acheive. During this change in the order of the day, Ivey continued to play well, but a number of players closed the gap on him. Jason Gray became the second player to cross the 200,000 threshold, just as Ivey fell to 190,000, but Gray wasn t able to sustain this early success and ended the day with just 44,600.
It took well over two hours for the field to shrink from five tables to four, and just 36 players remained in play. The professionals that fell during this stretch of play included Bodog Ari Engel
Lindgren to become the first player to cross the 300,000 mark.
Even Hyman s reign at the top was short-lived, because Don Dooley won a huge pot to grow his stack to 311,000 a few minutes later. A few more professionals were among the final nine to hit the rail with no prize money, and they included Ted Forrest
The last eliminations of the night proved to be the toughest it took almost two hours for the money bubble to burst after 30 players returned from the dinner break. Robert Goldfarb took the dubious distinction of bubble boy, busting out in 28th place, but he made a valiant stand and clung to life for 45 minutes on a short-stack before he was eliminated by Hyman just before 10 p.m. PDT.
While a number of professional players were eliminated today. some top-flight talent remains, as well. Ivey, Mizrachi, Rich, and Hyman will be joined at the final three tables by 2007 Card Player Player of the Year
We will see which of these professionals emerge to make the final table, but one safe bet is Ivey, who has made the final table in every WPT event in which he has made the money.
The final 27 players will return tomorrow at 2 p.m. and play down to a final television table of six, which will take place on Friday, March 28, at 5 p.m. PDT. Here is a look at the top of the leader board heading into the play-down day tomorrow:
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