$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.5K/3k/500 ante

Four more quick eliminations have everyone wondering if they’ll make the money before the dinner break in 90 minutes.

There were two big back-to-back hands at Table 3 which saw Chris Bolek go out when his could not run down the of Raymond McDonough. One hand later and it was Kings again, this time was up against and Elliott Zaydman was on the wrong end of that battle.

Margaret Mitchell found a little luck on her side at Table 5 against Matt Waxman. She was down to just a few chips when she called a raise from the small blind with and Waxman was holding the now often run Kings.

Someone at the table told her “you have a really good shot at this” just before the dealer spread her a trey and deuce on the flop. She hit a bonus trey on the river for a small double up. It wasn’t a big hit to Waxman as he recently hit a big double with Kings a few hands prior.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.5K/3k/500 ante

Just like that, half the starting Day 2 field is gone after a quick string of eliminations after the break including former WPT Player of the Year Mukul Pahuja.

That leaves the field just 13 knockouts from going to hand-for-hand action on the money bubble.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.2K/2.4k/400 ante

The Championship Event is down to just 66 players as they head off to their second break of the day as the tournament staff race off the black chips.

Full counts when they return.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1.2K/2.4k/400 ante

Everything was moving along at a nice, steady pace until they hit Level 14. No one is any particular hurry to leave the Pavilion and they’ve been stuck on eight tables for over an hour.

There are still 70 players hanging on while Jason Mercier was finally able find something willing to double him up to jump over the average stack amount. Darryll “DFish” Fish was the only recent notable to go out.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1K/2k/300 ante

“Who you got!?!” was the yell across the room, aimed at Jason Mercier.

The two-time WSOP bracelet winner has been working to get his stack above average in the early going but his attention was pulled away by the two large projection screens showing NFL games.

It seems he has a monetary interest in the Texans/Cowboys game which was (temporarily) more important than slinging chips.

$300 No Limit Hold’em Seniors Event
Blinds: 200/400/50 ante

Today’s Senior Event drew a nice crowd of 36 entrants with 27 of them still around at the end of registration. They generated a prize pool of $9,630 paying four spots with the winner set to earn $4,212.

1st – $4,212
2nd – $2,527
3rd – $1,591
4th – $1,030

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 1K/2k/300 ante

The early chips counts are in and 2010 WSOP November Niner has jumped into the lead after two levels of play. Preecha Taepakdee has added nicely to his stack with Tim Miles and Abbey Daniels not far behind.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6K/200 ante

Players are off on their first break of the day just as tournament staff broke another table to get to 90 remaining. One of those sent out recently was three-time WSOP Circuit event winner Nancy Birnbaum when her set of Tens could not stand up to Mukul Pahuja’s four-flush with pocket Kings.

Half the players remaining will be happy, the other half not as much. Break time chips counts when they return.

@STAX_Poker busted all in pre flop 1010 vs 77 and kk hit a set kk hits flush on river pic.twitter.com/BAsUGRiYIP

— Nancy Birnbaum (@NancyBirnbaum) October 5, 2014

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

Brian Hastings began the day with just under an average chip stack but things did not go well for the South Florida pro early. He was soon sitting with just two tiny stacks, while enjoying a little NFL action on his mobile device, when he took a shot with .

Dan “Miami Boss” Suied looked him up with before flopping the nut flush to send Hastings out and moving himself up to 230,000.

It hasn’t been a great day for other big names as well. Will Failla, Corey Burbick, and TJ Shulman were also gone before the end of the second level as the field reaches double digits with 99 remaining.

$2,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event
Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante