Joe McKeehen Leads With Two-Thirds Of Chips In World Series of Poker Main EventMcKeehen Will Take Big Chip Advantage Into Tuesday's Finale Against Blumenfield and Beckley |
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On the second day of the 2015 World Series of Poker main event final table, the Joe McKeehen train kept on rolling. The 24-year-old Pennsylvania native came into six-handed play with 47.5 percent of the chips in play, the second most in the November Nine era.
On Tuesday, he’ll start three-handed play with a whopping 66.8 percent of the chips.
On the second hand of the day, short stacked Tom Cannuli woke up with pocket aces against the pocket tens of Max Steinberg. Unfortunately for the New Jersey native, the flop brought a ten and Cannuli exited in sixth place, taking home $1,426,283.
The next to go was Israeli businessman Ofer Zvi Stern, who got it in bad with a dominated ace against Neil Blumenfield. The board offered no help, and Stern hit the rail in fifth place, banking $1,911,423.
The final elimination of the night belonged to Steinberg, who didn’t fare well during short-handed play and got it in against McKeehen. McKeehen once again held the best of it and his hand held to bust Steinberg in fourth, for which he picked up $2,615,36.
McKeehen, Blumenfield and Josh Beckley will return to the Rio in Las Vegas on Tuesday night at 6 pm PT to determine the champion. Each player is guaranteed at least $3,398,298, but all three of them have their sights squarely set on the bracelet and the $7,683,346 first-place prize.
Here’s a look at the chip counts.
| Player | Chip Count |
| Joe McKeehen | 128,825,000 |
| Neil Blumenfield | 40,125,000 |
| Josh Beckley | 23,700,000 |
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