Mirage Poker Showdown Day 2 – Standings Turned Upside-Down

With only 40 players left after the second day of the World Poker Tour’s Mirage Poker Showdown, the money is within site.  Only 13 players are left to be eliminated before the bubble is burst. 

The story of this day was how topsy-turvy the standings had become when compared with Day 1.  Daniel Alaei: from 2^nd to 37^th.  Shannon Shorr: 4^th to 35^th.  Geoffrey Sanford: 5^th to eliminated.  Jeff Blenkarn: 6^th to eliminated.  Anthony Newman: 7^th to eliminated. 

On the other side of fortune, Phil Ivey leapt from 75^th to 2^nd.  John D’Agostino: 81^st to 4^th.  Richard Kirsch: 107^th to 5^th.  Jon Friedberg: 72^nd to 6^th.  Jonathan Little: 142^nd to 9^th. 

At the end of the day, Darrell Dicken was one of the few to start play amongst the leaders and end amongst the leaders, finishing as the overall chip leader with just over half a million chips.  His next closest competitor, Phil Ivey, has less than 300,000.   

Play resumes Monday as plans are to whittle the field to 27, when all remaining players will be in the money.  As that only requires 13 bust-outs, it may go quick enough to allow for further play. 

Day 2 Chip Counts 

1. Darrell Dicken -- 501,900
2. Phil Ivey -- 284,900
3. Mikko Pispala -- 279,300
4. John D'Agostino -- 279,100
5. Richard Kirsch -- 260,000
6. Jon Friedberg -- 245,600
7. Cory Carroll -- 241,000
8. Mark Ketteringham -- 238,700
9. Jonathan Little -- 225,400
10. Owen Crowe -- 217,000
11. Randy Holland -- 197,700
12. Paul Wang -- 194,000
13. Chip Reese -- 175,000
14. Davidson Matthew -- 167,000
15. Eric Froehlich -- 166,200
16. Solomon Niyazou -- 162,700
17. Cuong Nguyen -- 150,200
18. Jonathan Depa -- 145,600
19. Gabriel Alarie -- 145,000
20. Alan Goehring -- 141,500
21. Tommy Garza -- 132,500
22. Chul Kim -- 121,900
23. David Peat -- 118,500
24. Tom Pniak -- 118,300
25. Rene Angelil -- 111,800
26. Yoon Kim -- 110,400
27. Laith Salem -- 109,000
28. John Esposito Jr. -- 108,000
29. Jared Hamby -- 104,200
30. David Pham -- 97,900
31. Amnon Filippi -- 90,100
32. Haralabos Voulgaris -- 87,100
33. Ardavan Yazdi -- 85,600
34. Nam Le -- 65,500
35. Shannon Shorr -- 65,200
36. Chad Layne -- 59,300
37. Daniel Alaei -- 53,200
38. Burt Boutin -- 49,700
39. Dallas Wottlio -- 45,000
40. Anh Van Nguyen -- 28,800