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• Day Two-A Survivors and Day Two-B Starters

  July 09, 2008

  The numbers are in! 6844 players have come to test their poker skills in this year’s WSOP up by 7.4%. Of that number, players represented 118 different countries and territories. Women represented approximately 2.5% of this number. First place cash will be just over $9.1 million!!

  Day Two-A had a very interesting guest, Madeline Ungar, widow of poker legend Stu Ungar. Stu died ten year’s ago, leaving Madeline and their daughter behind. Since Stu’s popular has grown over the years in poker, the Ungar Foundation has been born to help others with substance abuse. After a short introduction of the organization, Madeline uttered those famous words, “Shuffle Up and Deal!”

  The women who started Day Two-A with the larger chip stacks are gone. The lady’s with the mid-stacks are bigger, and a few roller coaster stacks are hanging in. Svetlana Gromenkova, Ladies Event winner, went out in the first two hours. Her pocket Aces were busted by a set of 9’s and soon after she would once again have half her stack into a big pot. Her opponent, who more than covered her, went all in sending Svetlana into the tank. In what seemed like five minutes, Svetlana must have known her opponent pretty well to fold her hand with half her stack in the pot. Later she would push the rest of her chips into the middle with A/7 to be called by A/Q sending her to the rail.

  Kathy Liebert, who started the day with 39,550 would triple up her stack to just over 90,000 by 4 p.m. Being moved three times though wasnt so lucky for Kathy as her last table was her demise when she made trip queens only to be rivered by a straight.

  Maya Gellar-Antonius began her day two with 70,000 in chips. As I watched Maya play I realized this young lady was playing a solid and precise game. Every bet she made was well thought out, and laid out on the felt carefully showing she had made the move with all her skill involved. Ending her day with 135,200, Maya built her stack over the day with pot after pot, never exposing herself to any dangerous situations. Now that’s POKER!!

  Andrea Benelli from Italy, certainly did her damage at two tables as well. Andrea went down and came back up to finish the day 183,300.

  Victoria Coren took a hit to her stack at her own hands. The button made a pre-flop raise which Victoria, in the small blind called as well did the big blind. On a flop of 3/4/7, all spades, Victoria made a bet of 2200. The BB called and the button moved all in. Victoria must have felt good about her hand as she raised another 20,000 to lock out the big blind. But the BB had other ideas as he went into the tank for a few minutes before pushing all in and just covering Victoria’s stack. She could not have been more disappointed in the move as she folded her hand leaving herself with just 28,000 to play with. Victoria would later hit the rail and head back to London to prepare for the WSOPE in September.

  Vanessa Rousso who played much of her day on the feature table didn’t fare very well on any table. She began the day with 48,450 and ended the day without any memorable plays with 30,900.

  DAY TWO-B STARTERS
  Ladies to watch today:

  Evelyn Ng – 110,225
  Heidi Northcott – 103,075
  Karen Perez – 78,575
  Liz Lieu – 68,025
  Jennifer Harman-Traniello – 63,050
  Tiffany Michelle -47,625
  Joanne Kittridge – 47,500
  Anita Perl – 44,050
  Anjela Brunson – 42,350
  Isabel Mercier – 40,725

  We are sure to add and subtract ladies from the leader board today. Stay with PokerNews.com for live updates all day!

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