After having a field of more than fifteen hundred players and two tough days of competition at the tables, the field was cut back to 884 players for day two. The final numbers are out and the first place winner will be taking a $2.2 million prize and a total of 224 players will take a share of a total prize pool exceeding $14 million.
The field was composed of 739 players from the United States, 164 from Canada, 100 from Germany and players from other 56 or so countries who together assembled the biggest field up to date in a PCA event.
It was an uphill battle for some PokerStars pros at the tables during day two; some of the players that won’t be returning for day three are Vanessa Rousso, Fatima de Melo, Peter Eastgate, Barry Greenstein, Angel Guillen, Marcin Horecki, Katja Thater, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Humberto Brenes, Ben Kang and Jan Heitman.
Other poker pros that crumbled on day two were Freddy Deeb and Annette Obrestad. Deeb said in previous months that he would be taking a break from tournaments and he has confirmed that by saying that the PCA was his last tournament, he will now focus on live and online cash games.
But not everything was negative during day two, some players had remarkable days at the tables and finished in great shape for day three. The chip leader is Praz Bansi with 960K chips, his closest follower is Marc-Etienne McLaughlin with 702K chips, third place is taken by the former chip leader after day one, Wayne Bentley with 602K chips.
When browsing the chip leader board, followers will notice that the PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri is sitting among the top fourteen places and looks in great shape to make it to the top positions in the tournament. But there are many PokerStars Pros and qualifiers still in contention for the tournament. Day three will most likely bring a lot of exciting moments at the tables.
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