Eliminations happen at a frantic pace in Day 2 of the WPT500. The average stack, recently at about 20 big blinds, is now at about 27 big blinds after a flock of bust outs. Players that are on the lower end of the board have been taking chances in order to gain some momentum and recover their ability to play post-flop. In the last few minutes, the pace slowed way down, mainly because we are approaching the magic number of 20 players. Most players have on their mind the following particularity of the prize pool: the top 20, on top of their cash prize, win a $3,300 seat for the WPT Montreal Main Event!

Here is one of many recent showdowns, a hand that had Duff Charette and Robert Greenberg go to flop with opened hole cards.

Charette:
Greenberg:

Board:

Charette was at risk and immediately stood when the flop was revealed. Greenberg, who was already doing well, may very well be our new chip leader after orchestrating this elimination.

When the field drops to 21 players, the event will move to hand-for-hand play, which only makes sense considering that the pay jump at that point will be of $4,500.