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Foxwoods Poker Classic Day 2 Recap
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Joining them near the top of the leaderboard is Ted Forrest, in fourth place with 339,100, and Season V WPT titleholder Joe Tehan in eighth place with 287,300.
The event began on Friday with 346 players, and while Day 1 only shrank the field to 218, Day 2 took it all the way down to 75. The prizepool is worth $3,230,014, and the top 40 players will finish in the money, presumably on Day 3 (Sunday). First prize is a few thousand dollars short of $1 million, and the top six who reach Wednesday's televised WPT final table are all guaranteed more than $100,000.
Patel's path through Day 2 was accompanied by a bit of luck. Early in the day, he outflopped pocket aces with J-10 suited to take him up to the 400,000 mark. A short while after that, a player with pocket aces was eager to make a big dent in Patel's stack -- until Patel showed the other two aces, and the pot was chopped. Several players commented on Patel's fortunate cards, and when a floorperson arrived with chip racks, Hoyt Corkins (seated to Patel's right) seemed happy to get away from the table. Hoyt thanked her for breaking the table and said, "If you knew how this table was going ..." (Unfortunately, Corkins would be eliminated later in the day.)
Ted Forrest's key hand was a big one that also attracted a lot of attention. Shane Schleger was all in with 88 and Mike Martin was all in with JJ. Ted Forrest had them both covered, and his AA were in the lead. A crowd gathered, and gasped when they saw a jack in the window. But when the flop was rolled out, an ace appeared to give the lead back to Forrest. Schleger picked up a gutshot straight draw on the turn with the board showing AQJ10, and a king would chop the pot three ways. But the 3 on the river clinched the pot for Forrest. Schleger and Martin were both eliminated, and that pot pushed Forrest over the 300,000 mark.
With 75 players remaining at the end of the day, the average stack is 138,400. Here are the top five, plus some of the notables still in action:
1. Paul Snead - 472,700
2. Raj Patel - 393,700
3. Eddie Ting - 388,200
4. Ted Forrest - 339,100
5. David Stefanski - 337,000
8. Joe Tehan - 287,300
21. Paul Darden - 175,200
30. Kathy Liebert - 138,300
31. Barry Greenstein - 135,600
33. Alan Goehring - 130,800
41. Erik Seidel - 104,100
47. Erick Lindgren - 93,500
58. Nam Le - 56,200
66. John Juanda - 48,400
Day 3 begins at 12:00 noon ET tomorrow (Sunday), and the field is expected to burst the money bubble. We'll continue to provide complete live coverage, with updates, chip counts, photos, and video interviews with Kimberly Lansing
