Make sure to check the previous postings of this event: Day 1A and 1B of Event 2
 With FrinkX, Milkman (see picture) and Daut still in we started yesterday with 447 people, fighting for 378 in-the-money-places. With David Bach being the chipleader we began the long grind all the way to the final table (at least, that was the plan).
Daniel Alaei was out within 20 minutes and Kenny Tran loses a large portion of his stack with AKo vs AKo (other guy hit a flush obv). The first 50 are out within like 30 minutes, and hand for hand commences. Still no sign of Daut, FrinkX or Milkman getting into trouble. Bubble-boy of today is Robert McLaughlin, whose pocket 9’s weren’t good enough against the queens of his opponent. This means both FrinkX (Evan McNiff) and Daut44 (Ryan Daut) are in the money! Unfortunately for Ryan, there wasn’t much more in it today, as he finished 362nd, winning about 2 buy-ins, $ 2,949 . Just after that, Michael Binger and David Singer (lost with AK vs AQ) both went out. Todd Brunson joined them shortly after that.
Meanwhile FrinkX is doing very well, while player after player gets eliminated he just keeps adding to his stack. Theo Tran becomes chipleader, and “Jesus” Chris Ferguson is going up-and-down like a yo-yo, he’s still alive and kicking. Milkman unfortunately got into trouble, being busted out at 88th place, good for $6,972 . Unfortunately no news on how he went out. Meanwhile FrinkX’s stack gets to 6th place with 66 remaining. Not much after that he takes a few blows, first flopping top pair with K kicker, calling off about 100k total, than he gets all-in versus Ferguson (who has been shoving all day it seems) with A9 vs AK, which takes off a large portion of his stack.
It’s getting late and people are starting to get tired. At this time the players are already playing over 15 hours! Obviously this has its effect on the players game, and dropout-rates went up. Blinds were rising and Evan McNiff (FrinkX)’s stack was declining, until his final hand. A raise from James Akenhead folded to FrinkX at the cutoff, who goes almost-all-in, leaving a 1k chip behind. Akenhead calls and they see a flop (9-2-2 rainbow), but Akenhead shows his hand before everything is played (he turns over his   not thinking about the $1k chip behind). FrinkX being a bit puzzled by the commotion (remember, it’s 4.50 already!) and he puts his last $1k in, turning over   . The turn brings a blank, but the river brings a disaster card, his opponent hit a 2-outer with the  on the river and FrinkX is eliminated in 25th place, taking home $24,134 .
At this late hour the staff decided to hold a vote, being that everybody had to come back at 1.30PM the other day after we get down to 18, instead of the intended 9. Obviously this was the only decent solution (although it could have been made a little earlier), and everybody agreed on it, so still 6 bust outs to go before bedtime. Amongst those were former chipleader Ryan D'Angelo, and Brandon Blake was the last elimination of the day.
This leaves 2 tables, 18 players total, for tomorrow, where we’ll decide who’s gonna win Event 2 and who will take home the $ 831,462 first price. Yesterday’s chipleader David Bach is one of the short stacks, with Chris Ferguson and Minh Nguyen with about average stack, and Aaron Coulthard being the chipleader, just ahead of Theo Tran.
Full chipcounts and table positions:
 Table 14:
Seat 1: Josh Engerdahl (Abbotsford, BC) 930,000
Seat 2: Melvin Jones (Chicago, IL) 660,000
Seat 3: Mike Ngo (New Orleans, LA) 544,000
Seat 4: Grant Hinkle (Kansas City, KA) 281,000
Seat 5: Perry Friedman (Las Vegas, NV) 653,000
Seat 6: Joe Rutledge (Pasadena, TX) 486,000
Seat 7: Chris Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA) 444,000
Seat 8: David Bach (Athens, GA) 168,000
Seat 9: Frank Sinopoli (Hollywood, CA) 165,000
Table 15:
Seat 1: Eric Hicks (San Francisco, CA) 703,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead (London, UK) 1,039,000
Seat 3: Matthew Kearney 1,024,000
Seat 4: Jeff Wiedenhoeft (Whitewater, WI) 482,000
Seat 5: Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA) 600,000
Seat 6: Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV) 1,199,000
Seat 7: Brandon Blake (Palmer, AK) 514,000
Seat 8: Elia Ahmadian (Chantilly, VA) 171,000
Seat 9: Aaron Coulthard (Waterloo, ON) 1,327,000
Final 2 tables will be played later today, until only 1 player remains to collect the bracelet and some prize money.
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