The 2011 World Series of Poker has narrowed the field down to where everyone still playing is sitting in the same room at the same time. Day 2B is in the books and Ben Lamb was the leader. He ended Day 2B with 551,600 chips, which is good enough to give him the overall lead heading into Day 3. He was followed close by Kevin Saul with 542,200 chips though. Those are the only two players over the 500k mark in chips. Out of all the big named players out there, probably the biggest name near the top of the leader board is Patrik Antonius, who has 361k in chips, and is in 12th place currently.
Lamb has played incredible during this World Series, with a 12th place finish in the $10k Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship, an 8th place finish in the $50k Player’s Championship, a 2nd place finish in the $3k Pot-Limit Omaha event, and he also won his first gold bracelet in the $10k Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. He’s sitting in second place in the Player of the Year race behind Phil Hellmuth, and is in a great spot to make a push in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Day 2B began with 2,490 players and ended with 1,043 who are advancing on to Day 3. This sets the total for Day 3 to have 1,866 players who are still alive and pushing for the gold bracelet. 693 players will be paid, meaning that they still need to eliminate nearly two-thirds of the field in order to get into the money. While a large number of players from the field are shooting for their first gold bracelet, there are seven former Main Event winners who are still alive heading into Day 3, Joe Cada, Robert Varkonyi, Carlos Mortensen, Huck Seed, Phil Hellmuth, Berry Johnston, and Tom McEvoy. Jamie Gold and Joe Hachem were both still alive heading into Day 2B, but were eliminated before the end of the day.