10 Jul 10

WSOP 2010: Five PokerStrategists Survive Day 2A

Panny1, innerpsycho, HenrikX, MongooseRus and Nichtschwimmer are the first five PokerStrategists to make it into Day 3. Team PokerStrategy.com members RobbieV and ScHnibL0r also played today, but have both hit the rails.

2,412 players who survived Day 1A and 1C, returned for the second part of their WSOP Main Event 2010 journeys on Day 2A. After four two hour long levels of play, 1,202 have progressed into Day 3.

Team PokerStrategy.com members RobbieV and ScHnibL0r will not be among those who will be returning to play on Monday, but five PokerStrategists did make it through the day to continue our quest for the elusive bracelet. Here are their chip counts to start Day 3:

• Nichtschwimmer - 155,900
• innerpsycho - 144,200
• Panny1 - 137,000 (pictured right)
• HenrikX - 85,000
• MongooseRus - 22,500

Boulos Estafanous ended Day 2A as the chip leader with 344,100 chips. Meanwwhile notable pros like Jesper Hougaard, Cole South, Johnny Chan, Patrik Antonius and Robert Mizrachi have some of the biggest stacks left in the field.

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Late drama for simon1989, HenrikX and Panny1

simon1989 (pictured left) was on course to finish with well over 100,000 chips on Day 2A but was cruelly eliminated with minutes left to go until the end of the day. He picked up A-K and made a 5-bet shove against his opponent. Unfortunately, his opponent was holding A-A.

The day however ended much more sweetly for HenrikX. He had been playing with a short stack of less than 50 big blinds for most of the day, but made a late double up just 30 minutes before the end. Holding 6-6 on a J 6 3 board, he managed to get it all in against his opponent, who was pretty much drawing dead with 6-3.

panny1 (pictured top right) also had a chance to pick up a monster 120,000 chip pot at the last level of the day. In a 3-bet pot holding 5-7 suited, he turned the straight and convinced his opponent to put in the chips for the call. Unfortunately for him, his opponent rivered a split pot.

Two more Team PokerStrategy.com members are scheduled to continue their WSOP Main Event journeys on Day 2B. Allanon and BongBob are set to be joined by at least 20 other PokerStrategists. The almost $9 million first place prize awaits, if one of them manages to go all the way.