Phil Ivey Second in Chips to Start Day 2 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day 2 of the third championship event of the 2022 WSOP, Event #22: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship will get underway at 2 p.m. local time with 41 players out of a field of 85 still in the hunt. Registration is still open until the start of play, so it is possible that a few more hopefuls will hop in with a fresh 60,000 stack at Level 11 of play.
The field is littered with big names including the largest stacks. Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier is on top of the pile with 262,000. He registered late in Day 1 and spun his stack up rapidly into the chip lead.
Phil Ivey enters the day second in chips with 256,500. The ever-popular figure at the WSOP, Ivey is traditionally one of the best seven card stud players around so this may be one of his best shots to break his eight year WSOP Bracelet drought and take home bracelet number eleven.
Event #22: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bertrand Grospellier | France | 262,000 |
| 2 | Phil Ivey | United States | 256,500 |
| 3 | Yueqi Zhu | China | 237,000 |
| 4 | Randy Ohel | United States | 228,000 |
| 5 | James Paluszek | United States | 220,500 |
| 6 | Brian Liberman | United States | 206,500 |
| 7 | Kevin Gerhart | United States | 205,000 |
| 8 | Leonard August | United States | 196,000 |
| 9 | John Lytle | United States | 191,000 |
| 10 | Vasilis Lazarou | Greece | 182,500 |
Third and fourth place in the counts are two more WSOP bracelet winners in Yueqi Zhu with 237,000 and Randy Ohel with 228,000. Another bracelet winner amongst the top ten stacks is Kevin Gerhart who enters seventh in chips with 205,000
Outside of the big stacks, several known players are still alive on Day 2, including the defending champion of this event, Anthony Zinno, who has 68,000. He will be looking to spin his stack up and go for the back-to-back achievement.
Adam Friedman (153,000}, Brian Rast (108,000) and Todd Brunson (46,000) are also among the big names still remaining on Day 2 as well as recent 10k Dealer's choice champion, Ben Diebold (112,000)
The levels elongate on Day 2 to 90 minutes. The plan for Day 2 is to play seven 90-minute levels, with 10-minute breaks after each level and some extended breaks when decided upon and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 14 (~8:30). After that, the few fortunate enough to survive the day, will bag up and advance to Day 3.
PokerNews will be on hand tomorrow to cover all the Day 2 action.