Day 2 in the Books
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Play began just over 12 hours ago with more than 300 runners still fighting to make a run deep into the night. The furious pace of the eliminations slowed only for a few hands around the bubble before the madness ensued once again. The long line at the payout desk was interrupted for a quick dinner break, but the desk staff was sweating bullets all day as they tried to process nearly 250 payouts.
A few different players have had their hands on the chip lead today. Brandon Cantu was the first of those, holding that spot for the balance of the evening. One big confrontation with Mary Jones would bring him crashing down though. Cantu got it in with two pair, only to get drawn out on by Jones' bigger two on the turn.
That pot put Jones in the mix, and she too would reach the top spot on the leader board a couple rounds later. Her reign at the top would be short-lived though; two straight pots with Ray Foley left her down and out. On two consecutive hands, Jones' pocket queens were run down by Foley's ace-king suited. In brutal fashion, she went from chip leader to the payout table in a 5-minute span.
That left Ray Foley as the man on top. Over the course of the day, Foley consistently moved in the right direction. Courtesy of his big clash with Mary Jones, Foley finally found what he was looking for, scooping up a couple huge pots to leapfrog him all the way to the top. At the end of the night, he's stuffed his chip bag with 1,302,000 chips.
That's not quite good enough for the lead anymore though. On the final hand as the night came to a close, he was just pipped for the to spot. The role of overnight chip leader will go to Michele Iacovone, bagging up what he wrote as "1,605,200" even though that's not possible with no T100 chips in play. We'll have to wait until the bag opens tomorrow to get his actual count, but suffice it to say he's the leader right now.
That does it for Day 2. The 27 remaining players will come back at 2:00pm tomorrow, and they'll play all night until just one man has every chip on the table. We'll see you tomorrow.