WSOP Event #25: Final Two Tables With A Lot Of Big Names

In an interesting second day, the chip lead was shared by the likes of Phil Ivey, Steve Wong and Carlos Mortensen. However, in the end, they had to give it up to Jon Turner who finished his day with a dominating chip lead. Chad Brown, who had made a miracle comeback in the first day of the event, managed to stay alive one more day and was the last player in the field of survivors.

It was an action-packed day with the initial pots often climbing over 15,000 while the chip lead was still at a mere 50,000 - and thus regularly changed. Some short stacks could let out a sigh of relieve as their table was split; featuring Phil Ivey, Chad Brown, Gavin Smith and Marsha Waggoner, it was certainly a tough table to stay alive on.

One of the promising players of this year's WSOP had to take his leave early on. In a three-handed pot, it was Carol Kline who would turn over ()() for an ace-high flush and a seven-low to scoop the pot. Jason Mercier hadn't been able to complete his low and his pair of threes didn't even get close to saving him.

Table 161 was another one to be noted; it had in fact not lost a single player over the first few hours of play. With Can Hua, Mel Judah, Chip Jett, Frank Debus and Toto Leonidas on the seats, on thing is for sure: it wasn't for the lack of skill. Erick Lindgren wasn't lucky enough to be on that table, though, as he got it all-in against two players in a hand of Omaha-8. With the board coming down A2ATA to his K2T3, he had absolutely nothing to put up against the aces full of queens and the quad aces his opponents revealed.

After the bubble burst, Chau Giang (pictured left) was eliminated on 32nd place to cash in yet another event. His 5588 wasn't good enough to hold up against Al Emerson's full house with AJT3 on the T3T63 board. Greg Mascio followed suit when he moved all-in on the flop.

He might have hoped for at least a chop with A279 for the low, but it was no good against Steve Wong who called with for the flush and the nut low. The and on turn and river didn't help Giang and he had to go as 30th.

Looking at the final standings, it's amazing to see how quickly a downswing - or upswing - can turn around your tournament life. Chad Brown - now last in chips on 14th place with  40,000 - had more than 100,000 and was close to the chip lead at some point during the day; in contrast, Jon Turner, who is the dominating chip leader now, was down to only 5,500 earlier.

Here are the top 10 chip stacks entering Day 3:

World Series Of Poker Event #25 Standings
Rank	Name	Chips
1st	Jon Turner	465,000
2nd	Carlos Mortensen	280,000
3rd	Frank Debus	250,000
4th	Eric Buchman	240,000
5th	Steve Wong	235,000
6th	Dutch Boyd	225,000
7th	Blair Rodman	210,000
8th	Matt Kelly	160,000
9th	Phil Ivey	150,000
10th	Mark Scott	148,000