Riordan Rockin'

We'd like to catch John Riordan in a pot, but our timing so far has been unfortunately off. Luckily for us, the young Floridian has been more than willing to tell us how his day has gone.

The defending champ bagged up 57,000 chips yesterday afternoon, but his early Day 2 trend was very much downward. In fat, he was set all the way back to 15,100 at one point before the heater kicked in. Riordan got himself all in with pocket nines against both pocket queens and ace-queen in a 140,000-chip pot. As he tells it, it was "all skill" when he managed to get there and triple up.

From that point on, it's been one knockout after another for Riordan, and he's picked off about a half-dozen players, adding their chips to his ever-growing stack. That stack sits at about 440,000 chips now, and if there was any doubt before, there's none now. He is the chip leader. By a big margin.