The Bellagio Main Event, Day 2
Day two saw Poker News author, Tony G, keep a commanding position, high in the chip counts of the main event at The Bellagio - Five Diamond World Poker Classic. With 358,000 chips Tony is placed 5th from the remaining 82 players.
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot went on a rampage today, collecting almost half a million chips and racing to 1st place in the chip count with 610,000. Currently second is the legendary Johnny Chan on 427,000 chips.
Other famous names going well in the top twenty are Phil Hellmuth (10th) 253,000 chips. Paul "Eskimo" Clark (9th) 256,000 chips. David Pham (12th) 245,000 chips. Jennifer Harman (16th) 195,000 chips and Ram Vaswani (17th) 173,000 chips.
Here is the full chip count for the remaining 82 players.
1. Dave Ulliot 610,000
2. Johnny Chan 427,500
3. Raymond Davis 385,400
4. Galen Kester 369,100
5. Tony G. 358,800
6. Edward Moncada 352,200
7. John Vallon 285,400
8. Richard Brodie 262,200
9. Eskimo Clark 256,200
10.Phil Hellmith 253,500
11.Patrick Bruel 247,600
12.David Pham 245,400
13.Christian Andersson 243,800
14.James Van Alstyne 221,400
15.Marlon Santos 195, 700
16.Jennifer Harman 195,600
17.Ram Vaswani 173,600
18.Michael Booth 171,300
19.Vinnie Landrum 171,300
20.Javier Quinonis 170,500
21.Jim Close 169,900
22.Daniel Negreanu 162,800
23.Ammon Filippi 161,200
24.Steve Rassi 159,200
25.Eric Weiener 159,000
26.Jeff Lisandro 155,200
27.Humberto Brenes 150,300
28.Howard Lederer 149,000
29.Ronnie Jackson 148,900
30.Chester Burnett 147,800
31.David Plastik 146,500
32.Eugene Katchalov 145,000
33.Vadim Trincher 144,100
34.Robert Yong 143,000
35.Charles Hiatt 142,200
36.Allen Kessler 140,400
37.William Brindise 132,500
38.David Lowry 127,000
39.Mark Dickstein 118,400
40.Michael Coleman 116,300
41.V. Senthilkumar 114,200
42.Chad Layne 113,200
43.Thomas Jacobs 103,900
44.Lonnie Alexander 102,100
45.Brian Essenter 100,000
46.Nam Le 96,800
47.Chris Gregorian 95,700
48.Kiril Gerasimov 91,900
49.Jeff Freedman 90,900
50.Paul Zimbler 88,100
51.Jason Beasley 86,000
52.David Singer 85,900
53.Pat Callahan 82,900
54.Hasan Habib 81,700
55.Gary Leibovitz 80,100
56.Rodney Hurlburt 79,700
57.Mark Seif 74,800
58.Jamie Ligator 74,200
59.Eric Ford 70,200
60.Daniel Larsson 66,200
61.Steve Brecher 65,000
62.Eric Sagstrom 61,500
63.Ted Forrest 61,000
64.Michael Schraa 60,900
65,Shawn Rice 55.800
66.Ted Lawson 55,500
67.Greg Duros 55,200
68.Men Nguyen 53,900
69.Chip Reese 53,500
70.Dewey Tomko 52,200
71.Tommy Vu 52,100
72.Jens Sjogren 51,800
73.Bob Stupak 45,800
74.Tom Christopher 43,200
75.Barney Boatman 42,600
76.Yosh Nakano 36,400
77.Peter Moore 35,400
78.Kane Cheung 34,700
79.Steve Guiberson 29,500
80.Bob Feduniak 21,700
81.Nick Hanna 19,200
82.Douglas Haywood 18,800
Editorial note: The main Pokernews author Tony G. writes his daily experiences and thoughts in his weblog TonyGPoker.com.