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Day 2c of Main Event sees 2019 champion Cynn advance

8 July 2019

The 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event is officially the second-biggest of all-time, surpassed only by the halcyon days of the poker boom back in 2006, with poker's crown jewel attracting a total of 8,569 entries after registration closed at the start of Day 2c.

Of those 8,569 poker players' hopes and dreams, at least 2,000 were shattered today after the starting field of 4,008 was reduced to 1,793, who advanced to Day 3. The total number of players who will resume the action at the tables tomorrow on Day 3 is 2,880.

Defending champion John Cynn bagged a healthy 248,900, with fellow former champions Jim Bechtel (251,600), Johnny Chan (232,500) and Scotty Nguyen (17,500) all finding bags.

The chip leader looks like Julian Milliard who bagged 947,900 — not bad for a guy who came into the day with around 20 big blinds.

"I've had two crazy days," said Milliard. "On Day 1, I was down to 4,000 chips and tripled with ace-nine vs ace-jack, and started today with 16,000.

"I then had ace-nine beat pocket tens and ran it up from there!"

His biggest pot came when he made a set of deuces on a king-six-deuce flop with two spades. After betting and subsequently calling off an opponent's shove with a flush draw, he avoided the spades as the board bricked and he took down the pot.

Just behind Milliard comes Vlastimil Pustina with 930,700. According to Pustina, last year he busted about an hour before the bubble. Now attending his third World Series of Poker, he's determined to make a deep run after studying with a poker coach, staying active, meditating and — according to him — running good!

Pustina says a key hand from today was where he flopped top set against two pair to double up to around 160,000. Then, close to the end of the night, he got it in with a straight against top pair for a pot of over 600,000 chips.

Other notable big stacks include former November Niner Tom Cannuli (667,000), Kathy Liebert (555,000), Sam Greenwood (535,800), Jeff Madsen (488,600), Brandon Cantu (464,500), Calvin Anderson (459,400), Bertrand Grospellier (428,000), David "ODB" Baker (418,700) and Cliff Josephy (404,000).

It's very difficult to downplay the size of this year's Main Event. The total of 8,569 is more than the fields of both the 2004 and 2005 Main Events combined and the field has grown year-on-year for four consecutive years; a 33% increase since Joe McKeehen's 2015 triumph.

To put this continued growth in perspective, it is perhaps interesting to note that seven of the ten biggest Main Event fields have come since 2010.

The $80,548,600 prize pool generated this year is the second biggest in history, with the $10,000,000 that awaits the winner the joint second-biggest of all time, equal to the amount that Sweden's Martin Jacobson won for taking down poker's biggest prize in 2014 (albeit with a slightly lower 6,683 runners). Only Jamie Gold's $12 million win in 2006 stands above this year's top prize.

(Article courtesy of World Series of Poker)

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