While the world of online poker is blowing up with news about Full Tilt Poker, there is a very interesting World Poker Tour event going on that is starting to draw quite a bit of attention as well. The 2011 Borgata Poker Open kicked off this past Sunday with Day 1a, and was followed up by Day 1b on Monday. Yesterday, the two days combined the field to make the push towards the final table, and there were quite a few big time names still remaining in the field. One of the many names out there is poker pro David Williams.
Williams separated himself from the field on Day 2, and took a chip lead with an impressive 727,100 chips. The next closes to him on the leaderboard is Maurice Hawkins with 646,500 chips. Two other big names who held their own throughout Day 2 were Vanessa Selbst, who ended with 315k chips, and one of the hottest players in poker currently, Will Failla, who ended up with 315k chips as well.
Day 1b chip leader Jeff Madsen struggled to get anything going, and ended the day with 100k chips left, but is still alive heading into Day 3. There were also quite a few big names who were eliminated from the event as well, with players like Gavin Smith, Andy Frankenberger, Hasan Habib, Allen Kessler, Christian Harder, and Todd Terry all being eliminated before Day 2 came to a close.
Day 2 saw quite a few eliminations, and ended with only 170 players who will be moving on to Day 3. With the incredible number of entrants at 1,313; 100 total players will make the cash, and Day 3 of the Borgata Open will be played until the field is cut down to only 27 players remaining.
The current top ten at the WPT Borgata Poker Open features a wide range of stacks, with David Williams leading with his 727k stack, and the 10th place player, David Diaz holding 457,100 chips. Day 3 should be the most interesting day yet, and could set up a few of the big names who are left in the event to make their final push to the $922k+ first place prize!