Sands, Shorr, Lee, Adams Headline a Stacked Final Table
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The final 24 players returned to The Venue today inside the Horseshoe Hammond to play for a seat at the final table and a golden ticket to the season finale million-dollar freeroll (with a bracelet up for grabs). They were rewarded with a short day as the trip down to nine players was completed in just about six hours of play. Start-of-day chip leader Gabe Patgorski had himself another whale of a day, and he'll once again be the man to beat when the final table commences.
Coming into the day with a short stack, Mohsin Charania was the second casualty of Day 2 when his 
couldn't overcome David Adkison's 
thanks to a 
flop. A few minutes later, Adam Levy got his money in good with 
against James Anderson's 
, but he was crushed by a board of 
. He was out in 21st place, followed immediately by Shawn Busse in 20th. Justin "BoostedJ" Smith met his demise next, getting it in with against Curt Kohlberg's 
on an 
flop. He could not catch up to stay alive, exiting in 19th place. Keven Stammen was simultaneously eliminated in 18th place, losing a flop with 
against Shannon Shorr's 
. That cued the redraw down to two tables, and Day 1 chip leader Ryan Julius was out in 17th before the first level had expired.
After the initial flurry of action, the second level saw just one player eliminated, Jeremy Schwartz. He doubled up his short stack once at the start of the level, but he managed to run his 
into Bernard Lee's to seal his fate.
The stacks started to explode in the third level of the day as Patgorski took his count from 590,000 all the way up to 1.58 million. Chris Klodnicki fell in 15th place, losing a race with pocket nines against the 
of Anderson. Just a moment later, David "Bakes" Baker ran his into Shannon Shorr's aces, and he could not catch up to avoid a 14th-place finish.
Twelve players survived that level, and Dan Perper and David Paredes fell during the next round to bring the field down to ten and bring on the final redraw of the event. When the players combined around the unofficial final table, Gabe Patgorski's 2.4 million chips gave him more than a 2:1 lead over his newest challenger, Shannon Shorr.
It took almost a full level to reduce the field by one more, and it was Full Tilt Red Pro Steve Zolotow who takes the proverbial wooden spoon today. It was a three-bet shove that got Zolotow's small 87,000-chip stack into the middle with 
, thought he was drawing live when David Sands called with the . An ace on the turn ended Zolotow's day in 10th place.
So then, we have our final table roster for this first-ever Circuit Regional Championship. None of our finalists have a bracelet yet, and their tickets to the season-ending National Championship will give them one more shot at fixing that before the 2011 WSOP.
That's all we have for tonight, but we'll be back to finish out the story tomorrow. It promises to be a captivating final table under the bright lights of the television set, and we hope to see you right back here as we crown our Midwest Regional Champion for the 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit. The final table begins at 2:00pm local time, and when they reconvene, they'll stack up thusly:
Seat 1: Bernard Lee - 401,000
Seat 2: Dave "Doc" Sands - 1,360,000
Seat 3: James Anderson - 345,000
Seat 4: Anthony Hartmann - 194,000
Seat 5: Shannon Shorr - 905,000
Seat 6: Mark Owens - 270,000
Seat 7: Curt Kohlberg - 863,000
Seat 8: Gabe Patgorski - 2,263,000
Seat 9: Brandon Adams - 155,000
Until tomorrow, all that's left is goodnight.