Big Stacks at the Break
There are 61 players out of the 115 initial Day 2 entrants still in contention and they have just headed off on a 40-minute dinner break. The current frontrunner is Yu Dong and the Chinese player has been hard at work since the last time we walked by his table – he had just over 300,000 then but has more than doubled that since and is now sitting on a mountain of chips with a stack of 630,000 – that is a massive 210 big blinds folks.
The only other player we could find with anything close to this is Hong Kong’s Sparrow Cheung, but he ‘only’ has a stack of 360,000 (120 big blinds). While Taiwan’s Chan An Lin wins the award for the most artistic chip stack – some sort of giant elaborate chip flower that he has spent the better part of the last level building – he only has a stack of 208,000. Here’s how some of the field’s other notables are stacking up:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
630,000
290,000
|
290,000 |
|
360,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
350,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
325,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
300,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
290,000
177,700
|
177,700 |
|
270,000
224,500
|
224,500 |
|
||
|
|
255,000
-65,000
|
-65,000 |
|
230,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
|
||
|
220,000
141,000
|
141,000 |
|
208,000
208,000
|
208,000 |
|
190,000
-117,000
|
-117,000 |
|
150,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
|
150,000
68,000
|
68,000 |
|
140,000
-70,000
|
-70,000 |
|
110,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
90,000
-73,000
|
-73,000 |
|
70,000
32,500
|
32,500 |
|
70,000
-135,000
|
-135,000 |
|
Busted | |