Day 2A/B of the 2017 WSOP $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event was completed on Tuesday night. The day saw a total of 2,219 players return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, with their number being sharply reduced to 1,023 after five levels of play.
With the day slowing going to its end, it was Mickey Craft who stood out from the rest of the players who took part in the competition. Craft became the first player who reached the 500,000 chip-mark and also managed to hold the chip lead for most of Day 2A/B. At the end of the day, his was second in chips, with a chip stack estimated to to 608,100, right behind the current chip leader Lawrence Bayley, who has 618,000.
At the beginning of 2017 WSOP Main Event Day 2A/B, Lawrence Bayley started with the third largest stack, and later remained near the top of chip counts during the flight. He got the chip lead toward the end of Day 2A/B.
Following Bayley and Craft on top of the ranking, are Segio Castelluccio with a chip stack of 548,500, Michael Sklenicka with 540,600 and Joseph Conor with 511,100 in chips. Grayson Ramage and Jared Hamby, however, were left below the 500,000 chip-mark with 471,000 and 455,000 in chips, respectively.
Of course, these are not the only notable players who are expected to return for the third day of the event, including Charlie Carrel, Scott Seiver, Joe Hackem, Cherish Andrews, etc. Surprisingly, the reigning WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem was not lucky enough to survive until Day 3, who got eliminated by James Akenhead.
This is the first WSOP Main Event Championship in Mickey Craft’s career so far. So far, the player has also finished in the cash in a previous WSOP event this summer, after ranking third at the $3,000 Six-Max Limit Hold’em event scooping a guaranteed prize pool portion of $69,789. Speaking about his experience over the Day 2A/B of this year’s edition of the World Series of Poker, Mickey Craft said that the first two hours of the play were very tough. However, he further explained that things had gone pretty well for him after he had gone on a three-hour streak.
The current chip leader Lawrence Bayley is also taking part in a World Series of Poker Main Event for the first time ever. He pointed out that he had managed to emerge as a chip leader at the end of Day 2A/B after having nice hands and praised the event’s structure.
Today, Day 2C is to kick off, with about 3,300 players returning to resume their efforts in the chase of the Main Event’s title. Tomorrow, more than 1,000 survivors will return at Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for the third day of the 2017 WSOP Main Event.
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Harry Evans
