That's a Wrap
Day 2 of the WSOP-C Southern Regional Championship has just shut down for the night at Harrah's New Orleans. The after-dinner session took just 12 minutes off the clock with a flurry of action to close the night.
Play began with the 44 survivors from Day 1 plus another five fresh faces who squeezed in before the window closed. From 49, the field was reduced all the way to 18 over the course of just more than six levels. Brian Senie is alone at the top of the counts with 291,000, running up a good tally from his starting count of less than 50,000. Senie and his trip sevens faded a flush draw to win a big pot early on, and the chip leader collected another big pot when he claimed the bounty of Chad Brown in the middle of the day.
Shannon Shorr had himself a pretty fine day as well, bagging up the second-place stack of 242,500. Perhaps nobody is doing better than Allie Prescott, though. He's got 107,200 chips at the end of the day, and that's pretty stellar considering how his day began. Starting with more than 50,000, Prescott flopped a flush draw in a pot against Chad Brown. The fifth club came on the turn, and the river paired the board ( ). Brown shoved, and Prescott was not thrilled to see that Brown had run down a full house with .
Prescott was down to just 1,300 chips thereafter, but he wasn't going down without a fight. That number soon climbed to 24,000 when he crippled Jon Aguiar, and Prescott doubled up from that when his ace-queen bested Dan Heimiller's ace-jack. Prescott went on to knock Kido Pham out on a coin flip, and then he managed to double up again when a one-outer saved his tournament life in most improbable fashion. Read back a page or two to find out how it happened.
The chip counts and the table draw can be found right below this post, and that's about all we have for tonight. Bourbon Street is calling, and we've got a friendly 1:00 P.M. start time on tomorrow's schedule. We'll see you back here then for the run to the final table where the final nine players will lock up their National Championship seats.