$1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em (Event #34)

Nearly two thousand players lost their chance to win a bracelet in the Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em today as Day 2 saw the giant field plummet to the last 359 runners.

With 6,214 entries to the tournament, the remaining players can already call their progress a deep run. The payouts are yet to hit the sharp incline of the latter stages, but there's $687,782 waiting at the top, and that's a strong motivation for everyone involved.

Those include poker legend Ari Engel who had a great day at the office, sitting on Daniel Negreanu's left for a significant portion of today's 10-level span. Notoriously known for his relentless grind on the live scene, the nine-time WSOP Circuit champ was able to spin his stack to 1,683,000. Engel didn't finish as a chip leader but he's right there with the other big stacks.

The player who was eventually able to separate herself from the rest of the field was Arianna Son who had already crushed on Day 1. Son is now an outright chip leader, having bagged 2,363,000. She's trailed by the likes of Radoslav Stoyanov (2,000,000), Ignacio Molina (1,997,000), and Enrico Rudelitz (1,855,000), among others.

Molina's story is particularly appealing as the Spanish player came to WSOP with a bunch of plastic ducks—his favorite hand is a pair of deuces—, prepared to award every player who'd eliminate him from the tournaments he enters. So far, Molina doesn't seem to be close to another giveaway as he's currently sitting in the top 10.

Day 3 will also feature Steven van Zadelhoff who has already impressed with an 11th place in the Millionaire Maker. Van Zadelhoff knows how it feels to navigate through large player pools and with 1,300,000 in his bag, the Dutchman is certainly one of the hottest candidates for the title.

Play resumes on Monday, June 17, at 12 p.m. local time, when it will be time to find out whether Engel, Son, and van Zadelhoff keep crushing or if Day 3 propels other players towards the gold WSOP bracelet. Blinds will return to 10,000/20,000 with a big blind ante of 20,000 and the PokerNews live reporting team will be there throughout.

Alex Keating and Dan Zack were eliminated during the last few hands of the day.

Arianna Son	2,363,000	1,683,000
Radoslav Stoyanov	2,000,000	1,833,400
Ignacio Molina	1,997,000	-3,000
Enrico Rudelitz	1,855,000	-20,000
DID NOT REPORT 1	1,800,070	1,729,070
Romain Nussmann	1,708,000	1,513,200
Eric Cruz	1,690,000	1,505,800
Ari Engel	1,683,000	228,000
Silvio Costa	1,555,000	1,460,200
Robert Schmidt	1,550,000	1,323,800
Jason Kolpin	1,533,000	1,297,600
Jay Hong	1,512,000	1,512,000
Byoung Kim	1,504,000	1,362,400
Justin Liberto	1,485,000	1,193,600
Anson Tsang [Yan Shing Tsang]	1,475,000	1,125,000
Nick Yunis	1,460,000	1,282,800
Ran Ilani	1,420,000	1,319,000
Robert Reisner	1,420,000	1,363,400
Yasheel Doddanavar	1,412,000	997,000
Ross Ward	1,412,000	1,309,100
Samuel Taylor	1,405,000	1,284,700
Wojciech Barzantny	1,403,000	1,323,800
Seth Fischer	1,398,000	1,331,800
Alexander Butcher	1,389,000	44,000
Oleg Pavlyuchuk	1,369,000
Rex Clinkscales	1,360,000	1,227,500
Terry Fleischer	1,350,000	0
Sebastian Momtazi	1,335,000	1,204,000
Timur Margolin	1,329,000	1,131,600
Zizheng Huang	1,328,000	1,185,100
Chi Tang	1,325,000	1,132,300
Joseph Cheong	1,316,000	1,001,000
Steven van Zadelhoff	1,300,000	170,000
Ramzi Jelassi	1,291,000	1,187,300
Ignas Jasinevicius	1,285,000	989,000
Steven Filipovic	1,283,000	1,142,400
Raymond Ho	1,261,000	1,046,200
Kevin Wang	1,255,000	1,120,300
Ryan Hagerty	1,250,000	1,005,800
Marcel Vonk	1,249,000	0
Jack Sinclair	1,247,000	687,000
Seth Foster	1,235,000	1,115,300
Pedro Padilha	1,225,000	933,600
Brian Mancilla	1,217,000	0
Christopher Freeman	1,210,000	1,078,300
Andrew Katz	1,209,000	179,000
Khang Pham	1,200,000	1,082,300
Nick Cipiti	1,193,000	1,054,400
Linglin Zeng	1,186,000	1,028,600
Ashish Ahuja	1,181,000	0
Diogo Veiga	1,159,000	604,000
John Simunich	1,158,000	1,092,400
Pavel Krapivin	1,157,000	1,064,300
Harald Sammer	1,145,000	-5,000
Jong Kim	1,142,000	928,600
Adam Walton	1,121,000	920,100
Joby Bragg	1,117,000	1,014,000
Gabriel Iemmito	1,116,000	938,200
Leonard August	1,103,000	1,068,600
Justin Lapka	1,062,000	934,200
Christian Pham	1,062,000
Dong Guo	1,058,000	438,000
Emerick Wiatrek	1,039,000	0
Nan Hong	1,010,000	782,000
Bob Shao	1,004,000	942,900
Ido Ashkenazi	1,000,062	699,262
James Millman	1,000,000	947,600
Patrick Lacey	1,000,000	287,000
Pete Males	997,000	882,100
Jared Ingles	991,000	799,400
Richard Dubini	989,000	-91,000
Duy Ho	988,000	-162,000
Edgardo Rosario	987,000
Vincent Huang	987,000	883,000
Aaron Pinson	938,000	846,300
Justinian Tan	933,000	796,400
Fahredin Mustafov	932,000	82,000
David "Bakes" Baker	925,000	435,000
Benjamin Mercadal	923,000	831,600
Viktor Lavi	914,000	755,800
Kenneth Chupinsky	905,000	768,300
Dan Wald	888,000
Torrey Reily	888,000	820,200
Mohamed Mokrani	883,000	713,700
Rory Lucero	883,000	605,300
Baoqiang Ho	879,000	601,900
Alexander Ziskin	878,000	793,600
Christina Read	872,000	312,000
Ivonir Bento	868,000
Michael Youngman	863,000	735,000
Kevin Legerski	862,000	689,400
Tim West	860,000	735,800
Darren Rabinowitz	859,000	719,900
Zinan Xu	856,000	800,400
Brock Wilson	851,000	671,600
David Chen	851,000	736,100
Richard Kirsch	850,000	750,000
Yao Yin	847,000	605,100
Aditya Sushant	846,000
Tao Fan	846,000	687,500
Ruth Graham	840,000	584,000
Matt Iles	840,000	674,900
Jeffrey Turton	830,000	668,200
Gereon Sowa	829,000	558,700
Xi Yang	824,000
Ivan Zhechev	824,000	644,000
Steven Buckner	821,000	635,400
Michael Huber	820,000	727,300
David Miscikowski	820,000	762,300
Giovani Torre	818,000	776,500
Michael Comisso	813,000	558,600
Alan Cutler	808,000	-92,000
Lester Edoc	808,000	0
Trey Brabham	805,000	698,700
David Ward	800,000	735,900
Patrick Clarke	800,000	410,000
Giulio Mascolo	800,000	487,200
Lawrence Chang	798,000
Richard Alsup	797,000
David Kahan	790,000	678,400
Sean Dechancie	787,000	688,700
Bryce Landier	782,000	704,200
Tomas Teran Paredes	782,000	699,100
David Guay	780,000	593,000
Dylan Linde	777,000	452,000
Daniel Neilson	773,000	691,700
Matthew Radcliffe	773,000	629,600
Michael Hardiek	772,000	662,400
Loic Dobrigna	770,000	618,700
David Mowery	769,000	768,999
Julien Sitbon	762,000	762,000
Daniel Park	755,000	645,900
Dylan Wilkerson	754,000	683,600
Neil McFayden	751,000	656,000
Yossi Krispin	744,000	653,400
Roger Taieb	739,000	559,000
Joel Feldman	738,000
Matthew Wantman	736,000	700,000
Roy Park	736,000	619,300
George Petten	733,000	665,300
Angel Ruiz	731,000	-309,000
Nguyet Dao	729,000	728,999
Mihai Niste	728,000	571,400
David Inselberg	728,000	650,400
William Valladares	725,000	570,000
Michael Farrow	724,000	412,500
Jan Christoph Von Halle	723,000	611,500
David Dibernardi	722,000	567,200
Davide Suriano	720,000
Kathy Holz	710,000	497,800
Guilherme Benatto	706,000	463,200
Xiao Ruan	704,000	504,700
Stoyan Obreshkov	700,000	25,000
Mohammad Moeini	698,000	590,600
Jose Rodriguez Zurita	690,000	503,000
Sebastian Wong	687,000	638,400
Biagio Morciano	686,000
Charles Leonard	679,000	588,700
David Mallet	677,000	474,800
Joe Tehan	676,000	-224,000
Phachara Wongwichit	673,000	561,000
Faraz Jaka	670,000	100,000
Carlos Hey	669,000	508,500
Vinod Megalmani	668,000	363,700
Brian Weipert	662,000	0
Rotem Chen	662,000	580,700
Noah Bronstein	661,000	76,000
Pierce Picou	658,000	512,100
Clay Henry	653,000	553,000
Alexander Gambino	652,000	529,500
Justin Zaki	651,000	612,200
Noah Goodwin	647,000	72,000
Scott Baumstein	645,000	487,600
Matthew Crooks	643,000
David Bagheri	639,000	458,300
Danny Noam	633,000	-7,000
Lucas Constable	627,000	495,000
Donald Landwirth	627,000	407,300
Michael Noori	622,000	22,000
Jim Lantz	617,000	0
Wenhao Ying	613,000	441,300
Rumen Nanev	611,000	502,800
Shurane Vijayaram	608,000	529,200
Yuriy Boyko	607,000	502,500
Pedro Cabeca	606,000	522,700
Daniel Soltys	606,000	391,300
Phong Turbo Nguyen (CA)	603,000
Leonard Maue	602,000	373,700
Andrea Buonocore	601,000	374,300
David Ivers	600,000	535,800
Gregory Marshall	597,000	565,100
Denis Timofeev	586,000	26,000
Max Brown	585,000	493,000
Kenneth Martin	584,000	374,000
Rick Alvarado	582,000	490,600
Shoshiro Karita	582,000	487,200
Bradley Harris	580,000	416,300
George Rakitzis	577,000	449,000
Brett Bader	576,000	252,600
Michael Bartov	575,000	476,700
Maksym Lavrov	572,000	280,400
Hassan Shahlaei	571,000	312,900
Oren Rosen	569,000	494,300
Steven Lyons	569,000	444,400
Chris Karambinis	565,000	377,500
Soumitra Nagar	560,000	288,600
Angelo Milioto	560,000	473,800
Stephen Bierman	559,000	425,000
Ory Hen	558,000
Tyler Patterson	557,000	352,300
Benjamin Diebold	555,000	292,000
Pat Lyons	554,000	-646,000
Keith Godeaux	551,000	368,900
Einav Shalom	549,000	490,000
Samy Boujmala	545,000	390,500
Steven Firestone	544,000	409,900
Brian Chung	540,000	432,200
Charbel Azzi	531,000	476,900
Matas Cikinas	526,000	324,700
Nicholas Gerrity	522,000	321,800
Gregory Johnson	520,000	454,600
Alder Roma	517,000	287,400
Joshua Vanduyn	512,000	512,000
Ting Zhou	506,000	383,900
William Firebaugh	503,000
Sergei Galaktionov	502,000	385,200
Hayden Aalvik	501,000	409,400
Emmett Rutkowski	500,000	434,300
Rainer Ziermann	498,000	497,999
Janosch Mahmoudian	496,000	419,100
Jonathan Abdellatif	496,000	194,100
Ivan Deyra	495,000	344,500
Michael Helander	492,000	384,700
Bob Bounahra	484,000	236,500
Marc-André Ladouceur	478,000	-247,000
Alexandre Fracari	470,000	372,300
Daling Li	467,000	343,200
Bruce Olson	465,000	0
David Pham	462,000	277,000
Naor Slobodskoy	451,000	339,700
Josh Bergman	449,000	295,000
Tihomir Ivanov	445,000	-18,000
Derrick Barry	444,000	444,000
Christopher Canan	442,000	310,500
Derek Gregory	440,000	372,600
Roman Rogovskyi	440,000	208,800
Marvin Rettenmaier	439,000	399,300
Michael Amato	439,000	341,000
Robert March	439,000	232,000
Simon Deadman	437,000	395,700
Eric Baldwin	437,000	32,000
Charles Welsh	436,000	346,400
Felipe Ramos	431,000	345,000
Dmitry Yurasov	430,000	135,000
Philip Consolo	423,000	363,200
Chung Ho	421,000	421,000
Kami Hudson	420,000	241,100
Herbert Karp	418,000	291,900
Sepher Ebrahimi	407,000	290,900
Sebastian Pauli	407,000	37,000
Austin Peck	403,000	286,100
Richard King	396,000	219,700
Serhii Holodiuk	393,000	234,400
Christopher Godfrey	388,000	288,000
Matthew Smith	388,000	294,300
Keith Thurman	384,000	280,800
Mark Weisser	382,000	254,200
Jimmy Guerrero	380,000	130,000
Don Johnson	380,000	165,000
Hoan Nguyen	375,000	113,600
Lior Orel	370,000	143,900
Clifford Harris	368,000	260,200
Ryan Jaconetti	368,000	252,000
Yaji Ren	368,000	97,000
Dobromir Nikov	364,000	280,900
Karen Sarkisyan	357,000	239,000
Shi Chen	356,000	117,700
Denny Lee	356,000	-8,700
Zachary Humphrey	354,000	242,400
Philip Ford	354,000	315,700
Mitch Schock	349,000	269,200
Andrew Weisner	346,000	308,500
Terry Fan	345,000	-425,000
Aleks Dimitrov	341,000	266,700
Raymond Taylor	340,000	263,900
Joseph Dolecki	339,000	231,300
Sin Ren Chen	339,000	190,800
Gary Journeay	337,000	283,500
Gianluca Petrone	335,000	99,100
Anthony Gargano	334,000	277,300
Ji Ryu	332,000	240,800
Scott Eskenazi	331,000	-319,000
Kenneth Garen	330,000	275,800
Gabriel Sack	326,000	-90,000
Nicolas Malo Majeau	324,000
Jacob Peterson	323,000	226,500
Phu Ngo	320,000	234,600
Kinam Kim	319,000	230,700
Ioannis Angelou Konstas	318,000	265,800
Jerson Backmann	317,000	192,200
Masayuki Nagata	314,000	172,400
Christopher Smith	313,000	109,500
Dan O'Brien	311,000	224,300
Eduards Kudrjavcevs	305,000	-75,600
Freddy Deeb	302,000	-483,000
Will Berry	300,000	196,200
Ilya Rogov	297,000	184,200
Carlos Loving	295,000	115,100
Yin Liu	293,000	190,900
Marco Haberfeld	293,000	206,400
Andrew Hawksby	291,000	125,100
Nikolay Ponomarev	291,000	125,300
James Pupillo	288,000	195,300
Collin Cheung	285,000	203,000
David Castranova	285,000	96,700
Steven Barton	284,000	205,300
Hiep Doan	284,000	57,500
Edward Espino	283,000	114,800
Jack Peterson	280,000	252,400
Gary Hasson	278,000	35,200
Robert Georato	272,000	17,400
Vinicius Moraes	265,000	208,600
James Anderson	264,000	-392,000
Bo Jin	261,000	130,100
John Dolan	261,000	207,900
Michael Ermie	260,000	173,800
Carlos Rodriguez	252,000	193,800
Matthew Carlson	249,000	117,700
Nicholas Getzen	247,000	137,500
Peter Swearingen	242,000	49,800
Patrick Eskandar	239,000	65,600
Eliezer Hollander	239,000
Kyle Ho	238,000	57,700
Robert Fisher	237,000	175,000
Robert Powell	234,000	147,400
Darryl Lorenz	228,000	148,800
Michael Godsey	225,000	172,800
Claude Ngangacodru	224,000	-49,000
Zachary Roeder	223,000	103,500
Michael Trivett	215,000	-341,000
Jeremy Pozza	206,000	22,500
Johnnie Moreno	205,000	101,000
Anastasiia Syvak	205,000	103,400
Roger Dimaria	204,000	-39,000
Gilberto Amaral	187,000	101,000
Geoffrey Ross	174,000	53,600
Nicholas Meredith	174,000	-13,000
Jonathan Gray	170,000	54,400
Joshua Suyat	170,000	64,000
Jessica Dawley	168,000	-132,000
Jake Schwartz	158,000	-82,000
Philipp Caranica	142,000	62,900
Jacob Steede	134,000	-95,000
Hong Zhang	126,000	-389,000
Daniel Lawrence	106,000	71,700
Timothy Rutherford	105,000	-26,000
Alan Snow	104,000	-266,000
Inoy Panyanouvong	63,000	-87,000
Ezequiel Lebed	60,000	60,000

With over 400,000 in the middle on a board that read      , Enrico Rudelitz bet 228,000 after his opponent checked. His opponent went into the tank for five minutes, and the floor had to be called for time. Before the time was up his opponent threw in one chip signaling a call. Rudelitz Showed    for a flush and scooped a massive pot.

Enrico Rudelitz

1,875,000

1,725,000

The pot had grown to roughly 250,000 by the time Michael Noori (hijack) and an opponent directly to his left made it to the      turn. Noori fired 145,000, leaving himself with 203,000. The other player tanked for several minutes and then folded.

Michael Noori

600,000

370,000

In a 3-way pot pre-flop, all the chips landed in the middle. The shortest having 87,000 and Patrick Lacey having the middle stack with 301,000.

Patrick Lacey:   
Chip leader of the three:   
Short stack:   

The board ran out       and Lacey's aces held to get a double up and eliminate another opponent.

Patrick Lacey

713,000

535,500

The action folded to Vivian Saliba on the button, she moved all in for roughly 92,000, Tihomir Ivanov called from the small blind and the big blind folded,

Vivian Saliba:   
Tihomir Ivanov:   

Saliba was in pretty rough shape pre-flop but the flop was a pretty good one, being the    , giving her open-ended. The turn was the  , picking up a flush draw to go with it, but the river   was a brick and she was eliminated from the tournament.

Tihomir Ivanov	463,000	221,000
Vivian Saliba	0	-225,000

The action started with the under-the-gun player raising to 12,000, the cut-off raised to 26,000 and Richard Dubini called from the big blind. The under-the-gun raiser moved all-in for 267,000, the cut-off mucked fast, and Dubini went in the tank. After thinking about it for a while he made the call.

Richard Dubini:   
Under-the-gun:   

They were off to the races and it wasn't looking good for Dubini on the     flop. The turn   didn't change anything but the   fell on the river giving Dubini the pot and over 1,000,000 in chips.

Richard Dubini

1,080,000

348,000

Jim Lantz started the action by raising in late position and the button moved all in, the action folded back to Lantz and he called quickly.

Jim Lantz:   
Opponent:   

The flop rolled out     giving his opponent some extra outs to chop the pot. The turn was the   and the river was the   sending his opponent to the rail.

Jim Lantz

585,000

-32,000