Reaching After Reason: Day 3 at Foxwoods Awaits
John Keats once famously wrote about being an artist and desiring to live in a way that allowed him to experience the world without constantly analyzing it all of the time. He called the state of being "negative capability," defining it as a state in which one is "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
There are many uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts left to be resolved on Day 3 of the WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event. But we all know that when play begins and the last 16 players sit down today, most of those who do will most certainly be reaching after Reason… Ben Reason, that is, chip leader to enter today's final day of play.
Welcome back to the huge, interlocking complex of casinos here at Foxwoods Resort in Manshantucket, Connecticut, where today we'll be concluding our coverage from the first ever WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event!
Speaking of huge, the event drew a larger than expected field of 615 total entries. A long Day 1 on Saturday saw about two-thirds of the field whittled away. And yesterday's Day 2 was another long one starting at noon and not concluding until around 2:30 a.m. this morning, with more than 200 more players falling along the way.
It appeared during those wee hours that Kevin "BeLOWaBOVe" Saul had finally settled upon trending upward after a swingy day, having seized the lead and momentum late as the tourney was reduced to the final two tables. However a big hand between Saul and Reason during the final half-hour saw Saul's ace-king suited lose an exciting race with Reason's pocket jacks — ace on the turn, jack on the river — handing Reason the lead and sending Saul back down the counts.
Closest in the counts to Reason's 1.704 million to start today's play is John McNabola (1.468 million), another player who enjoyed a big late night double in a heart-stopping hand that saw his pocket queens manage to outdraw an opponent's kings. Meanwhile, Ethan Foulkes and Chris Mintchev come back to stacks just under a million. And a couple of players with 21st-place finishes in the WSOP Main Event — Bobby Corcione (in 2012) and Paul Snead (in 2008) — remain in the hunt as well.
While Keats may have preferred remaining in doubt, we're too interested to resolve the uncertainties that remain regarding the 2012-13 WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event. So come back to PokerNews at noon ET for coverage of all the bustouts and big hands as we find out together who makes the final table and who ultimately grabs the coveted WSOP Circuit ring for the Foxwoods Main Event.