Chad Campbell Leads Tightly Packed Field into Day 3 of $1,500 8-Game
After ten hours of play, little has been decided and all is still very much to play for on June 13 as 21 players will return for Day 3 of World Series of Poker Event #27: $1,500 8-Game.
Multiple players took turns late in the day making runs at the end-of-night chip lead, but when the bags were filled, it was Chad Campbell sealing up 1,991,000 chips, just ahead of Daniel Strelitz with 1,793,000, and Aloisio Dourado with 1,705,000.
In fact, eight of the top ten chip counts all bagged at least a million with only the stacks of bracelet winners Allan Le (150,000), and Quinn Do (120,000), dangerously short.
Top Ten End of Day 2 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chad Campbell | United States | 1,991,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Strelitz | United States | 1,793,000 |
| 3 | Aloisio Dourado | Brazil | 1,705,000 |
| 4 | John Bunch | United States | 1,685,000 |
| 5 | Robert Mizrachi | United States | 1,198,000 |
| 6 | Gary Kosakowski | United States | 1,164,000 |
| 7 | Kyle Loman | United States | 1,140,000 |
| 8 | Dave Stann | United States | 1,087,000 |
| 9 | Obli Prabhu | United States | 905,000 |
| 10 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 868,000 |
Other notables outside the top ten but still with a chance Tuesday include four-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (828,000), and three-time bracelet winner David "Bakes" Baker (444,000).
The Day’s Action
With a record field of 789 entries, of which 218 returned on June 12 for Day 2, a tidal wave of eliminations was expected to start the day, and those expectations held true to form as the money bubble of 119 was reached just after the first break of the day with almost 100 players busted within the first two hours of play.
Among those to fall shy of the money included Hall of Famers Jen Harman and Daniel Negreanu, and former WSOP Players of the Year David Bach, Daniel Zack, and Mike Gorodinsky.
The eliminations continued at a rapid clip once the lengthy, nearly hour-long bubble finally burst. Dylan Linde, Maxx Coleman, and Scott Bohlman were among the first to go in the money, earning at least the min-cash of $2,406.
Josh Arieh and Anthony Zinno busted in 64th and 65th place respectively for $3,234 each, a sum Phil Hellmuth also earned for his 59th place finish. Closer to night’s end, multi-time bracelet winners Max Pescatori (28th place) and Ian Johns (25th place) bowed out for $6,542 each.
What Lies Ahead
A no-doubt wild finish is in store when the players return to the Gold section of the Horseshoe Event Center at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 13 to play down to a winner, who will take home $198,854 and a prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.
While the field is tightly packed, the blinds and limits will surely provide some huge tournament-defining pots, with blinds of 10,000 / 20,000 in no-limit and pot-limit games and limits of 40,000 / 80,000 in limit and stud games.
Stay close to PokerNews for the thrilling conclusion of this event from Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas as our live reporting team brings you all the action.