$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 800/1.6k/200 ante

Table 41 will be one of the next tables to break and it has not been a good spot for a lot of players so far. Steve Karp knocked out Marc Sachezi earlier in the 5-seat and the incoming player was soon gone as well.

Paul Prager was eliminated when his ATo was shot down by a four-card straight on the board by the K7o of Ray Nalbandian followed by Chris Bolek sending Ioannis Poitsourakis out two hands later. One hour into play and five players are gone who spent time at the table.

Only 99 players remain of the starting 117 with two tables down and ten to go.

Day2 of @SHRPOLIVE WPT regional main event, doing my thing and chipping up slowly. Got pos on the chip leader, could be a good day! #yup

— David Rheem (@ChinoRheem) December 1, 2013

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Stuart Paterson came into to the day at the bottom of the chip count with just barely over the 20k starting stack. He now has a little more room to work as he doubled through Edgar Solorzano with Queens versus . He had to dodge a gutshot on the river but now has enough to make some moves.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 600/1.2k/200 ante

Steve Karp is one of the top players remaining in the field and was late for the start of Day 2. Most of his chips were still in the bag when he called the all-in of Marc Sachezi but his pocket Sevens were dominated by Sachezi’s Aces.

Temporarily. The dealer pealed another Seven right off the flop and Karp added Sachezi’s stack to those chips he still needed to organize. Karp is looking to add to his runner-up finish in the 2009 WSOP $1,500 NLH Event 7.

$1,500 + $150 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘n’ Poker Open” Main Event

Blinds: 200/400/50 ante

With registration closed we can begin to get an idea about who will be around at the end of the day. Matt Waxman and Tony Ruberto are still going strong but the father/son duo of Jeff and Zach Kessler are done for the Main Event.

A funny old gentleman in the 9-seat at Table 31 recently sent two other players to the rail when he called both their all-ins with after the flop up against top-top and top two. The 9-seat just chuckled as the two players to his right were drawing dead after the dealer put out the turn. No miracle boat on the river and the pony-tailed pulled in the 71,000 pot.

The rest of the field has quickly dropped under 150 players and those who stick around for Day 2 will join the 48 players with chips from Day 1A.