Roll Tide; Crawford Leads After Day 2
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Day 2 of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event here at the Horseshoe Hammond Casino is in the books, and your end-of-day chip leader is Claudia Crawford with 3.426 million chips.
Joining Crawford on Day 3 will be Brad Albrinck, Josh Williams, James Henson, Tripp Kirk, and 24 other hopefuls.
An extra two dozen players joined the action on Day 2, poneying up $1,675 for less than 10 big blinds. Robert and Michael Mizrachi were among the mega-late entrants, but both of them were quickly eliminated.
Phillip Liou didn’t buy in today, he was one of the initial chip leaders, but unfortunately he was eliminated before play concluded for the evening. Many other notables cashed but failed to survive the day, including Kathy Liebert, Jonathan Tamayo, Ryan Lenaghan, Ryan Julius, Mike Leah, Blair Hinkle, Aaron Steury, Mukul Pahuja, and Ty Reiman.
Crawford shot up the charts in the middle of the day, eliminating James Nelson holding 
against Nelson’s 
. Crawford held as the board came 
, and crossed the 775,000-chip threshold. She quickly crossed 1 million chips, and then she won a near 2 million-chip pot off of Charles Donahue.
Donahue, Crawford and Josh Williams all saw a flop of 
. Crawford fired 40,000, Williams called, and Donahue raised to around 100,000. Only Crawford called. The turn was the , and Donahue led for 148,000. Crawford raised to 308,000, Donahue moved all in for 813,000, and Crawford tank-called. Crawford’s 
led Donahue’s 
, and held when the 
completed the board.
Crawford’s stack continued to grow through the latter levels, and she peaked during the final level.
Albrinck, who finished the day second in chips, also went on a heater during the latter levels of the day. He busted Steve Verrett, and Kyle Weir en route to bagging 2.71 million chips.
The 29 remaining players will return tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time, and we will play until a winner is crowned. For now, good night from Hammond, Indiana!