News / Matthew Pitt / 10 July 2009 / Leave a comment

Day 2b saw a staggering 2,924 hopeful poker players return to The Rio to un-bag their chips and fight it out across the felt for a seat in Day 3 of the World's biggest poker tournament.

By the close of play, almost 1,500 players had lost all of their chips but six defiant members of Team Betfair survived with their stacks in tact and as a result are still in the hunt for the $8,500,000 first prize.

Whilst a total of nine players will return for Day 3 representing Betfair Poker, spare a thought and give a round of applause to those who fell during Day 2b. C Jakob was extremely unlucky to be heading to the rail when he managed to get his entire stack into the middle with a pair of Kings, only to run into his opponent's pocket Aces, just one of those cooler hands.

TILTMONSTER also ran into a monster hand when he was eliminated. His opponent had pushed him off three or four pots in previous hands so he must have thought his Ace-Queen was good this time. Alas it wasn't as his opponent held Kings and he couldn't hit any of the three remaining Aces in the deck to stay alive.

To win tournaments you have to win your coinflips and unfortunately for bifta he couldn't quite manage this. After getting all-in with a pair of sixes against his opponent's Ace-King, bifta was a slight 55/45 favourite but when an Ace arrived on the flop this made him around a 90/10 dog. No miracle six appeared and Team Betfair lost another player.

Whilst all this was going on, Peter Jepsen, DMSPSB and oversleep were busy adding to their stacks, as too were E V V O, ponyboy and pburress, all of who survived the day to take their place at the tables for Day 3.

Congratulations to each player who made it through and commiserations to those who did not.

In order of chip stacks, here are the Team Betfair members playing in Day 3:

DMSPSB - 186,500
Sorel Mizzi - 166,400
tcmoriera - 141,300
Hedger43 - 140,500
Peter Jepsen - 119,500
pburress - 104,000
oversleep - 70,500
E V V O - 70,300
ponyboy - 54,300