WSOP Main Event Day 2a, starts today at Noon PDT

On the very near horizon is Day 2a of the 39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event (a.k.a. Event 54.) Players who began their journey on Days 1a and 1b and survived, will return to battle it out for the bracelet and the top spot. The current chipleaders from the combined 1a and 1b groups are as follows:

Mark Garner 194900, Ben Sarnoff 177500, Brandon Adams 176450, Brian Schaedlich 160725, Kellen Hunter 155200, Stefan Mattsson 154275, Patrick Fortin 145275, Robert Mizrachi 142400, Jeff Frerichs 138025, Soren Peterson 135475

BUT, I'll have my eye on all of the following players on Day 2a, for no other reason than I really like them... and they have more chips than they started with on Day 1:

Barry Greenstein 21500, Scotty Nguyen 23600, Paul Wasicka 26950, David Grey 37100, Greg Mueller 37725, Kathy Liebert 39550, Vanessa Rousso 48450, Dario Alioto 51875, Barry Schulman 58350, Patrik Antonius 64125, Erik Seidel 64925, Hoyt Corkins 67525, Nick Schulman 69000, Thor Hansen 78850, Chau Giang 87625, Erick Lindgren 92325, Svetlana Gromenkova 94125, Robert Mizrachi 142400, Brandon Adams 176450

As for Day 2b the chipleaders in this one as combined from Days 1c and 1d are as follows:

Henning Granstad 242950, Curt Kohlberg 173050, David "Bakes" Baker 163450, Howard Berchowitz 160075, Arnaud Mattern 157650, Steve Austin 149000, Mohamad Kowssarie 146000, David Stucke 140525, Sami Rustom 140450, Dylan Linde 138425

BUT, I'll have my eye on all of the following players, for no other reason than I really like them... and they have more chips than they started with on Day 1.

Howard Lederer 28975, Erik Cajelais 29350, Scott Clements 29800, Jerry Yang 30350, John D'Agostino 35400, Steve Dannenmann 37500, Isabelle Mercier 40725, Phil Laak 45200, Men Nguyen 48025, Allen Cunningham 49000, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier 49900, Mike Matusow 52000, Jeff Madsen 52300, Rolf Slotboom 52425, Chip Jett 52450, Hevad Khan 54600, Phil Gordon 58700, Jennifer Harman 63050, Liz Lieu 68025, Chris Moneymaker 68525, Shawn 'Sheiky' Sheikhan 69825, Jean-Robert Bellande 70700, Phil Hellmuth 78900, Brian 'sbrugby' Townsend 85650, Nenad Medic 93200, Antonio Esfandiari 93775, Gus Hansen 102900, Heidi Northcott 103075, Carlos Mortensen 109825, Evelyn Ng 110225, David Oppenheim 114400, David Singer 119425, Victor Ramdin 124600.

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cheer_dad