The survivors from Day 1 A & B continued their play in this year's main event on Tuesday. The two fields were seated in different rooms in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino; survivors from Day 1a played in the Amazon Room while the B's were playing in the Brasilia and Pavilion rooms. Once Day 2 was concluded, approximately 700 players survived from both fields out of the +1,900 players that came through from Day 1.
The chip leaders from Day 1, Martin Jacobson and Trey Luxemburger, could not hold on to the top through Day 2 although Jocobson played very well most of the day and finished 9th on 342,700 chips. Luxemburger finished the day on 64th with a stack worth 186,800. The man that bagged the most after Day 2 is a relatively unknown player called Tim Stansifer who took over the lead with a chip count of 481,500.
Poker Faces
There's a number of well-known poker players that survived Day 2 A/B. Among these are last year's champ Ryan Riess on 84,900, the 2003 champ Chris Moneymaker with 222,000 and the 1996 winner Huck Seed who bagged 96,500 so far. Other familiar players that made it through Day 2 are Antonio Esfandiari (277,800), Eric Cloutier (236,000) and Erik Seidel (130,600).
Some of the famous players that didn't make it through to Day 3 were Mike Sexton, Annette Obrestad, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and the 2012 main event champion Greg Merson.
Day 2 A/B Top 10 finishers:
Tim Stansifer - 481,500
Tom Cannuli - 407,800
Tony Ruberto - 402,700
Joe Kuether - 401,200
Zhen Cai - 367,900
John Sacha - 364,400
Munir Shahin - 361,900
Tom Roupe - 349,600
Martin Jacobson - 342,700
Joe DeGeorge - 342,200
