The 470 survivors from Day 1A and 1,154 from Day 1B returned yesterday for Day 2-AB in separate rooms at Rio. Wednesday's participants played five two-hour levels with a few 20-minute breaks for dinner etc. After a 12-hour poker marathon, tournament staff called it a day and 654 survivors bagged up their stacks.
Amongst the survivors were 94-year-old (the Main Event's oldest entrant) World War II veteran William Wacher, two-time 2015 WSOP bracelet winner Brian Hastings, 2014 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker main event winner Fedor Holtz, 2010 WSOP Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel and 2014 WSOP Player of the Year George Danzer.
Many WSOP bracelet winners were eliminated on Day 2A, including Hasan Habib, Barry Shulman, Gary Benson, Diego Cordovez, Abe Mosseri, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jeremy Ausmus, Mark Radoja, Jesper Hougaard, Ted Lawson, Tony Ma, Donnocha O'Dea, Gavin Smith, Dutch Boyd, Todd Brunson, David Singer, David Pham, Dominik Nitsche, Phil Galfond, and Brian Rast.
Among the most notable names (non-WSOP winners) who went out on Day 2-A were -- Natasha Barbour, Isaac Haxton, Maria Mayrinck, David Levy, John Strzemp, Gabriel Nassif, Andy Black, Andy Philachack, Antoine Saout, Jorryt van Hoof, Erick Lindgren, Annette Obrestad, Mark Gregorich, and Jesse Sylvia.
Day 2B will be played today, starting at noon PST. The 2,747 survivors from Day 1C will return and battle for a ticket to Day 3.
source: pokernews and WSOP
