Day 2 of Main Event Ends With Five Players Left
The Main Event at the Maryland State Poker Championship was scheduled to play down to six players on the second day but, after agreeing to finish out the level when at that point, Michael Bills was eliminated to leave the tournament five handed heading into the third and final day,
Xiaoqiong Liu emerged with the biggest stack, bagging an impressive 2,600,000 to put her in pole position to scoop the title. Pokerstars ambassador Parker Talbot came into the final table as the short stack but found a couple of doubles to finish the day second in chips with 2,365,000. Start of day chipleader Nicholas Verderamo rounds out the top three on 2,165,000.
A full recap of the day's play can be found here and the live reporting team will be on hand tomorrow to provide coverage through to the conclusion of the event.