888poker Ambassador Vivian Saliba Bags Among Top Five Chip Leaders on Day 2 of Event #64: $888 - Crazy Eights
Day 2 of Event #64: $888 - Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em has come to a close with only 91 players remaining from the massive 10,185 field. 1,223 players started the action-packed day, with only 670 bracelet hopefuls still remaining at the first break.
At the end of 10 hour-long levels of play, Natalia Panchenko (11,870,000), Scott Davies (11,855,000), Ryan Leng (11,765,000), 888poker ambassador Vivian Saliba (9,565,000) and Roland Rokita (9,515,000) finished as the top five chip-stacks.
888 ambassador Vivian Saliba's stack grew continuously throughout the day with only one downswing happening near the end of the night when she lost close to 3,000,000 chips against Mario Hofler. Hofler and Saliba got their chips in the middle preflop, Saliba was behind and couldn't catch up on the five-card runout.
Saliba has $124,044 in earnings at the World Series of Poker alone, with 15 cashes in total, two of them coming this summer. She cashed in Event #42: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 8-Handed for $961 and Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em for $2,393. Saliba will be battling hard to win her first WSOP gold bracelet and the first place prize of $888,888.
Out of the 1,223 players who made it to Day 2, there were a lot of well-known players busting out before the end of the day, including Alex Foxen, Greg Raymer, "Captain" Tom Franklin, Calvin Anderson, and Ben Yu.
Day 3 won't be an easy one as two WSOP gold bracelet winners, Scott Davies and Ryan Leng bagged near the top. Scott Davis has $1,372,009 in WSOP earnings alone and has a total of 78 cashes, six of them coming this summer already. Davies largest cash came in Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em when he finished in 424th place for $4,397. Davies will be looking to take home his second coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet at the end of this tournament.
All of the remaining 91 players are guaranteed to take home $6,957 and will be fighting to win $888,888 for first place along with the prestigious WSOP gold bracelet. They will resume Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 12 noon, with play resuming at level 30, playing 60-minute levels, with a 15-minute break after every second level and a 60-minute dinner break after the 6th level (approximately 6:30 p.m.) and play down to the final eight.
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