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465 Poker Players Survive Day 2A, Today 2,378 Return for WSOP Day 2BWed, Jul 9th, 2008 @ 12:00am At the the World Series of Poker Tuesday July 8, 1,251 combined Main Event Day 1A and 1B players returned for Day 2A to continue their fight for glory, gold, and their share of the more than $64 million prize pool, and a shot at the first place prize of $9,119,517. When the dust settled after 10 hours of play, only 465 of those players remained. Some of the bracelet holders who were sent home early today include: Bill Edler, Svetlana Gromenkova, Robert Varkonyi, Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Kathy Liebert and Blair Hinkle. Brian Schaedlich, who was second in chips at the end of day 1B, ran away with the chip lead late in the day. He finished with 750,000, roughly 350k ahead of his closest rival.
Meantime, the combined survivors of Days 1C and 1D will get back into action at noon today, Wednesday July 9 for Day 2B. 2,378 players will return, straining the capacity of the Rio's convention center. If Day 2A was any indication, that number will be nearly cut in half by dinnertime. Henning Granstad is the chip leader, but Victor Ramdin, David Singer, David Oppenheim, Brad Booth, and Evelyn Ng are also high on the leader board. The 465 survivors from Day 2A will join the survivors of today's Day 2B tomorrow, Thursday July 10, at noon for Day 3 action. Be sure to stay right here at PokerPages.com as we bring you all of the live wire-to-wire action from the 2008 WSOP Main Event! Use the handy PokerPages.com WSOP Tournament Viewer to easily access live daily blog coverage, tournament photos, official chip counts, event winners, blind structures, payouts and results and other tournament information for all 55 bracelet events. YESTERDAY'S (JULY 8) EVENT SUMMARIES & EVENTS TO RUN TODAY, WEDNESDAY JULY 9
#54: WC No-Limit Hold'em Day 2B $10,000 at 12 Noon (Main Event). 2,378 players from Days 1C and 1D will return today to play in Day 2B, straining the capacity of the Rio's convention center. Henning Granstad is the chip leader, but Victor Ramdin, David Singer, David Oppenheim, Brad Booth, and Evelyn Ng are also high on the leader board. The 465 survivors from Day 2A will join the survivors of today's Day 2B tomorrow, Thursday July 10, at noon for Day 3 action. Note: Times shown are local to Las Vegas, on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)= GMT-7 EVENTS THAT FINISHED: WSOP SCHEDULE & RESULTS & BLOGS AT A GLANCE- For a complete schedule of the WSOP, as well as links to results for each event already held, click here. For a listing of all daily WSOP live event coverage (blogs), click here. LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE POKER PLAYERS- PokerPages houses one the most complete and up-to-date profiles and photo gallery of poker players from around the world. To learn more about players you see highlighted at the World Series of Poker click here.
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