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HEADLINE: The March Toward $4 Million Continues
at World Poker Tour World Championship
Body:
Day 2 of the WPT World Championship started Monday with 479 players
hoping to survive five more blind levels and inch ever closer
to capturing the $3.97 million first place payout. Unfortunately,
for all but 218 players that dream would die as they hit the rail.
The attrition started as soon as the first blind level of the
day did as players dropped at an average rate of one per minute.
Poker pros that succumbed
to this early frenzy included Victor Ramdin, Gavin Smith, Team
Bodog
member David Williams, Todd Brunson, and JJ Liu.
While more than 250 poker players would end up being eliminated
over the course of the day, some of the biggest names in poker
showed why they are just that. Topping the leaderboard at the
finish of play with 535,000 in chips is previous WPT champion
Roland de Wolfe who is coming off a second-place finish at the
Irish Poker Open earlier this month.
Just behind him is ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth,
stacked at 528,100. While WSOP events seem to come easily to the
"Poker Brat", a win on the WPT has eluded him thus far
and no doubt he’ll be looking to add to his title collection
at the most prestigious event on tour.
Rounding out the top three is Internet phenom Sorel Mizzi who
is better known in the online
poker world as "imper1um". The 21-year-old Canadian
is looking to extend his brick and mortar tournament success after
his third-place finish at the Irish Poker Open.
Other noted pros that survived Day 3 include 2006 WSOP M.E. runner-up
and NBC National Heads-Up Poker champion Paul Wasicka, Patrik
Antonius, Carlos Mortensen and Phil Ivey. The online
poker community is also making a strong showing with James
"KrazyKanuck" Worth, Dustin "NeverWin" Woolf
and Justin "zeejustin" Bonomo all with more than the
average stack of 147,000.
Dubbed by PokerNews.com as "The Poker Fairy", Day 1
chipleader Anna Wrobleski continued her improbable run finishing
just outsider of the top ten but stacked with the other pros within
striking distance of getting back to that top spot.
Stay tuned to the Bodog Beat for more updates on the WPT World
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