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WSOP Daily Dose, 10th July 2008

By Philip Tuck

Who has survived the carnage of Day 2b in the WSOP Main Event?

As day 2B of the 2008 WSOP main event draws to a close we saw many of the top name players drop out of the hunt. Notable eliminations included: Former champions Jerry Yang, Joe Hachem and Carlos Mortensen (who was eliminated in a sick hand with an under set), Howard Lederer, Brian Townsend, Sorel Mizzi, David Sklansky, Clonie Gowen, Andrew Robl, David Oppenheim and Antonio Esfandiari.

Everyone’s favourite poker brat, Phil Hellmuth is still in the running, finishing the day with 200,000 chips and making his usual collection of, how do we say, ‘interesting’ plays along the way (betting 5,000 into a 25,000 pot with threes on a 9s7h4s5s2h board - after check calling raises pre flop and on the flop - as an example). Still, you can’t argue with bracelets I guess.

Other players of note still left in are: Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, Victor Ramdin, Nenad Medic, former main event champion Johnny Chan, Adam “ruthless” Levy, Bertrand “ElKY” Grospellier, Jeff Madsen, Allen Cunningham, Dag Martin Mikkelsen, Hevad Khan and Gus Hansen.

Here is a selected chip count from amongst those left:

Alex Outhred - 486,800
Victor Ramdin - 358,000
Nenad Medic - 294,000
Serge Grenier - 269,000
William Purle - 233,000
Cliff Josephy - 230,000
Soren Jensen - 224,000
Phil Hellmuth - 200,000
Johnny Chan - 194,000
Brandon Schaefer - 178,000
Adam Levy - 170,000
Bertrand Grospellier - 170,000
Jeff Madsen - 158,000
Brandon Cantu - 150,000
Phil Gordon - 140,000
Gus Hansen - 128,000
Allen Cunningham - 120,000
Hevad Khan - 96,000
Dag Martin Mikkelsen - 85,000
Russel Carson - 78,000
Willie Tann - 38,000