Day 2C of the 2016 WSOP $10,000 Main Event was concluded only a few hours ago. A sweeping number of 3,252 players returned from the tournament’s Day 1C. After the scheduled ten and a half two-hour levels were completed, there were as many as 1,416 survivors left. They bagged and tagged their chips for the day and are set to return at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino today at 11 am local time.
The remaining players will be joined by survivors from Day 2A/B for the very first time since the event’s beginning. There were 760 players to make it through all ten and a half levels played on Tuesday. With that said, Day 3 of this year’s WSOP Main Event will kick off with a total of 2,176 hopefuls seated at Rio’s poker tables.
Brazil’s Gustavo Lopes, a player who has never cashed in a WSOP event before, is leading the Day 2C survivors with 630,700 in chips. Lopes found his place among the top 5 chip counts in the second half of Level 8. He accumulated a significant chip stack after eliminating 2014 WSOP Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson.
A notable to have also positioned himself in top 5 of the chip counts chart was poker pro Michael Mizrachi. The player started the day with 128,800 in chips but eventually ended the day with 545,400, building his stack in his favorite manner – towards the end of the day.
Fourteen-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, defending Champion Joe McKeehen, and Ryan Reiss are among the notables still in contention for another WSOP Main Event title. Quite expectedly, McKeehen is looking to win the $10,000 Championship in back-to-back years, a feat that has not been repeated since 1987-88, when Johnny Chan emerged as the big winner.
An interesting highlight from Day 2C of this year’s edition of the Main Event was the elimination of three of the biggest names in the poker world – Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and 2016 WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP winner Fedor Holz, in quick succession.
Combined with the Day 2A/B survivors, Day 3 of the tournament will begin with Valentin Vornicu as the overall chip leader, holding 838,600 in chips, followed by Gustavo Lopes with 630,700 and Raffaele Castro with 587,000.
