Mike Lang Leads Final 11 After Day 2 of Event #42: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship
Day 2 of Event #42: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship at the 2024 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas was a marathon of seven-card action. The day ended well past 1:00 a.m. local time, with 11 players remaining who will be left fighting for their share of the $995,100 prize pool.
Leading the way as the night ended was Mike Lang, who bagged a gargantuan amount of 1,189,000 after he had an on-fire last few levels of the night to surge to the top as the only player with more than a million in chips.
Three-time bracelet winner Paul Volpe was the second largest stack with 923,000 as he actually joined the field today during late registration, which looks like it turned out to be a sound decision as he will be a serious factor for the bracelet here.
The eleven remaining players who found a bag all have at least one bracelet already, with the exception of the chip leader Lang and Kane Kalas, who found his way to Day to give himself a shot at his first bracelet.
Yuri Dzivielevski and Robert Mizrachi are both still alive as they have nine bracelets between the two of them with four and five, respectively.
Remaining Player Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Chip Count | Big Bets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Lang | 1,189,000 | 30 |
| 2 | Paul Volpe | 923,000 | 23 |
| 3 | Yuri Dzivielevski | 801,000 | 20 |
| 4 | James Obst | 732,000 | 18 |
| 5 | Yuval Bronshtein | 650,000 | 16 |
| 6 | Jason Daly | 602,000 | 15 |
| 7 | Juha Helppi | 586,000 | 15 |
| 8 | Kane Kalas | 414,000 | 10 |
| 9 | Andre Akkari | 406,000 | 10 |
| 10 | Robert Mizrachi | 231,000 | 5 |
| 11 | Alex Livingston | 192,000 | 5 |
The day began with 41 players but would grow rapidly as the one level of late registration ballooned the field by nearly double as 33 players jumped in to join the fray on Day 2. Many of the late registrants hit the rail fairly quickly, such as Phil Ivey and Nick Schulman but some of the others who joined late did much better, including Kalas and Volpe who both managed to find their way on to Day 3.
Play continued steadily, with eliminations coming at a normal pace until the bubble, which lasted for quite a few hands before the remaining 17 players were all in the money. The day finally ended when Andrew Kelsall was eliminated in one of the very last hands of the night.
Day 3 will resume at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 17 with action at Level 18 with 20,000/40,000 limits. The plan is to play down to a winner on Day 3 and crown the new $10K Stud champion.
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