Finish Strong, Day 2 Complete
by Court on 09.29.08, 9:45 pm
The second day of play has come to a close at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair. With 15 minutes left on the clock the announcement was made that each table would play 5 more hands then be done for the night. As the tables wrapped up, there were some last minute eliminations and some big pots raked in during the waning moments of play.
Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman (left) was able to pick up a nice pot with a call on the river. Chris had raised to 3,600 from under the gun and James Keys made it 11,200 from the button. After asking how much more, Moorman put in the chips to make the call and the players saw the T
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flop. Chris sent the action over to Keys who put in a bet of 15,400. Moorman made the call and the turn was the 2
. Both players checked to the A
river where Moorman again passed and left it up to Keys to make a bet. He did, putting out 32k. Moorman shook his head, at one point bouncing his fist into his mouth making it look like he was hitting himself. Finally he made the call and Keys was reluctant to show his hand. After a pause Chris flipped over his QQ and Keys then mucked his hand without ever showing. After picking off the bluf from Keys the stack in front of Moorman grew to around 200k. By the time the last hand was dealt at his table Moorman had a final total of 219,500.
Scott “R_A_Y” Montgomery was hoping to make for a major storyline by making the final table of both the main event in Vegas and the WSOP Europe main event final table. That hope ended a few minutes before play wrapped up when Scott busted out of the tournament.
Tim “Tmay420″ West’s recovery from the short stack held up to the end of play, with Tim bagging up chips totalling 58,600. Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza finished with 43,200. Peter “#1Pen” Neff had a quiet but solid day, ending up with 130,400.
The top stacks are all around the 300k mark with Andy Bloch, Erik Seidel, and Brian “sbrugby” Townsend all in the mix with John Juanda and Justin “Boosted J” Smith (right) not too far behind.
The full list of end of day chip counts is Available Here.
Below are the top 20 chip counts at the end of day 2 play.
| 1 | Bloch, Andy | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 321,600 |
| 2 | Townsend, Brian | Santa Barbara, CA | USA | 290,100 |
| 3 | Seidel, Eric | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 282,300 |
| 4 | Juanda, John | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 252,500 |
| 5 | Rouas, Phillippe | San Francisco, CA | USA | 233,300 |
| 6 | Elliott, Christopher | Alloa | UK | 231,900 |
| 7 | Moorman, Christopher | Brighton | UK | 219,500 |
| 8 | Smith, Justin | Kissimmee, FL | USA | 217,700 |
| 9 | Negreanu, Daniel | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 203,700 |
| 10 | Adams, Brandon | Miami, FL | USA | 190,000 |
| 11 | Sointula, Jani | Helsinki | Finland | 184,800 |
| 12 | Sonnert, Ben | Linkoping | Sweden | 184,600 |
| 13 | Matusow, Mike | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 180,300 |
| 14 | Demidov, Ivan | Moscow | Russia | 176,200 |
| 15 | Moreira, Tome | Porto | Portugal | 165,800 |
| 16 | Alekhin, Stanislav | Moscow | Russia | 164,000 |
| 17 | Williamsson, Christofer | Gothenberg | Sweden | 163,500 |
| 18 | Fischman, Scott | Las Vegas, NV | USA | 152,800 |
| 19 | Shina, Rajinder | Southampton | UK | 152,500 |
| 20 | Solomon, Jarred | Johannesburg | South Africa | 142,400 |
