Poker Road’s Coverage of the World Poker Tour Championship

San Jose, Costa Rica, April 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Professional poker players were everywhere to be seen on Day 2 of the WPT Championship, accounting for more than two-thirds of the field. Day 2 started out with 421 poker players, the combined survivors from Day 1A and Day 1B. All in all, by the end of Day 2, there were 188 survivors left.

Many pros started hitting the rail almost as soon as play started on Day 2. Ted Forrest was out early as was Florian Langmann. Poker Road’s Paul Wasicka raised 2,400 with both the Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske and Florian Langmann calling him. The flop was king of clubs, 10 of spades, and the 5 of clubs. Langmann checked, and then Wasicka bet 4,600. Luske mucked it while Langmann check-raised it to 15,000. Wasicka moved all in and after briefly thinking about it, Langmann did as well. Wasicka was holding pocket aces while Langmann turned up a queen of clubs and a 9 of clubs, giving him a straight and flush draw. However, the turn and river was of no help to Langmann - a 2 and 3 of spades, giving Wasicka the win. Later in the day, Wasicka too found himself hitting the rail.

Also finding themselves out at the end of Day 2 were five time WSOP winner Layne Flack, Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren, winner of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at 2007’s WSOP Freddy Deeb, former Card Player Player of the Year winners, David Pham and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, WPT title winners Tuan Le and Alan Goehring, 2005 WSOP main event winner Joe Hachem, Yahoo! Co-founder Jerry Yang, Sammy Farha, Jennifer Harman (the only female to have won two bracelets at WSOP open events), Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, and the even the Poker Brat himself, Phil Hellmuth. Day 1A saw Poker Road’s Doyle Brunson and Barry Greenstein holding on with about 80,000 chips each, but Day 2 found Doyle down to 48,300 while Barry was up to 111,100.

Robert Mizrachi used consistent play and good timing to make his way to the top of the chip lead with 523,200 by the end of Day 2. Also finding himself near the top of the lead board was Carlos Mortensen, winner of the 2007 WPT Championship. A second win this year would really set the poker world abuzz. Tom “durrrr” Dwan was still wearing his Chiquita banana hat, holding on in 76th place at the end of Day 2.

The start of Day 3, the top ten chip leaders were Robert Mizrachi (523,200), Jayde Tran (406,700), Eric Richards (399,500), Bryan Devonshire (393,400), Cory Carroll (384,700), John Celii (376,800), Carlos Mortensen (371,600), Kenny Tran (367,400), Michael Gracz (364,800), and Jonathan Kalmar (333,900).

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