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Matthew "All in at 420" Stout, a 24-year-old Vegas pro, will hold a massive lead going into the final day of the WSOP Circuit tour at Harrah's Casino Tunica, arriving with 1.05 million chips, almost exactly a third of all those in play. He arrived in second chip position, quickly overtook day-one leader David Dao, and kept building after that. Stout has nearly $500,000 in tournament cashes, the largest being $59,210 when he won a $500 Circuit event at Atlantic City last year.

Day two started with 27 players. Exactly three hours later we were down to the final nine after

Gavin Smith, the biggest name remaining, busted out. He had pocket 8s and took a bad beat when Kai Landry, with pocket treys, flopped a set.

Two women were among the 27 remaining on day two, and after Paula Halata busted out very quickly, Kathy Liebert was the lone female left. Kathy eventually went out 19th, technically on the bubble, but since Va Shon Watkins went out at the same time during hand-for-hand play, he and Liebert got to split 18th place, $5,519.50 each. So they both at least got their buy-in back plus a few hundred more.

Here are the final table counts: