WPT: Day 2 of the Foxwoods World Poker Finals

Last year's Foxwoods World Poker Finals needed each and every day to crown a champion, but that tournament boasted a field of 575. This year's field of 412 is tearing through the action and even with four more days of play, the competition has already whittled itself down to 93. Many are predicting a possible day off, but that inevitable lull in the tournament has yet to rear its ugly head and the players may find themselves up against the wall sometime tommorow afternoon.

There were 248 players who entered Day 2 and the increasing blinds and antes wasted no time claiming the short stacks. Among the notables to bust throughout the day were Josh Arieh, Bernard Lee, Adam Levy, Men Nguyen, Nick Schulman, Adam Junglen, Ted Lawson, Ralph Perry, Carlos Mortensen and Alex Jacob.

Both Jason Potter and Phil Ivey came into the day as the overall chip leaders of their respected starting days but things did not go as planned on their second go around. Ivey headed in reverse almost immediately for most of the day before he rebounded to finish the day with 187,000, just a little more than he started the with. Potter, on the other hand, chipped up early and was at one point flirting with 400,000 before a crippling hand in the last two levels left him scrambling below average. He lost a coinflip to Chris Ferguson to end his tournament shortly before the day ended.

Mike Matusow turned heads during play with an amazing laydown. We caught up with the hand as the board read Q1092. With about 50,000 in the pot, Christian "charder30" Harder was all in for his last 37,000 against Matusow, who was sitting on a stack of about 68,000 in chips. He went into the tank, saying, "Look at this kid. Not even a sweat. He doesn't look scared at all." After a few more minutes, Matusow mucked his 99 face up and Harder graciously showed his KJ for the nut straight. Matusow had a mini-celebration and survived the day with 62,000. 

The players will return tomorrow and play an additional five levels. A total of 50 players will cash, so look forward to an exciting money bubble as the players battled for the $1.2 million first place prize.

Here are the top nine stacks in the room, all with over 200,000 in chips, along with some more of the notables.

1. Jonathan Jaffe - 522,000
2. Larry Greenberg - 370,200
3. Arthur Azen - 350,000
4. Charles Marchese - 322,700
5. Freddy Deeb - 258,400
6. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson - 239,800
7. Ron Kirsch - 227,600
8. Ray Lynn - 224,100
9. Toto Leonidas - 214,200

 Kevin Saul (199,700), Ryan Young (192,000), Gavin Smith (187,800), Phil Ivey (187,000), Will Failla (169,000), Daniel Negreanu (148,900), David Pham (123,200), Erik Seidel (114,000), Jonathan Little (85,900), Michael Binger (84,500), Victor Ramdin (81,500), Anna Wroblewski (54,500), Allen Kessler (43,600)

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