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* Day 2 lasts until an eight-handed final table is reached
* 152 players are remaining of 851 entries (including re-entries)
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1:41pm: Break time
They've reached the first 15-minute break of the day, with the big board showing 152 players remaining. --MH
1:36pm: Yamron doubles through Greenwood
Level 14 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)
Bruce Yamron was just all in and at risk with [Qc][Qd] versus the [Jd][Js] of Sam Greenwood, but after the board rolled out 10-high Yamron survived. He's back to 115,000 while Greenwood still sits with a healthy 170,000 with the day's first break almost here. --MH
1:16pm: Updated chip counts
Level 14 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)
They are down to less than 160 now -- still another 30-plus knockouts away from the cash. A recent tour of this corner of the poker room where the LAPT Bahamas Main Event is playing out shows Tyler Hurman still looks to be sporting the biggest stack with more than 330,000.
Meanwhile Daniel Weinman has been building up so far in the early going on Day 2 as well, pushing up close to 300,000.
Here's a look at a few selected counts at the moment:
Tyler Hurman -- 330,000
Daniel Weinman -- 295,000
Guillaume Darcourt -- 270,000
Andre Akkari -- 250,000
Sam Greenwood -- 240,000
Mukul Pahuja -- 210,000
Yann Dion -- 200,000
Danny Noseworthy -- 200,000
Ismael Bojang -- 195,000
Marvin Rettenmaier -- 185,000
Felipe Ramos -- 155,000
Carter Gill -- 150,000
Pablo Gordillo -- 140,000
Mike Leah -- 140,000
Ole Schemion -- 135,000
Juan Martin Pastor -- 120,000
Ryan Riess -- 120,000
Andres Herrera -- 115,000
Leo Fernandez -- 105,000
Aaron Massey -- 95,000
Chris Moorman -- 95,000
Alex Manzano -- 95,000
Ana Marquez -- 90,000
Roland Israelashvili -- 85,000
Carlos Mora -- 80,000
Michael Mizrachi -- 40,000
Barry Greenstein -- 30,000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier -- 30,000
Mohsin Charania -- 20,000
In about 20 minutes the remaining players will be taking their first break of the day. --MH
12:51pm: Level 14 begins (182 left)
Level 14 - Blinds 1,200-2,400 (300 ante)
They've raced through an initial 50-minute level and are onto Level 14.
Right now the big board is showing 182 players remain, with Thomas Muehloecker the last player eliminated during the day's first level after losing his stack to Joao Fernandes. --MH
12:36pm: Akkari leading fellow red spades
Level 13 - Blinds 1,000-2,000 (300 ante)
We noted at the top how Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari was near the top of the counts to start the day. The Brazilian -- and, of course, permanent fixture at LAPT events -- has continued to accumulate here at the start of Day 2 and now sits with more than 250,000.
Akkari is one of four Team PokerStars Pros still in the mix at LAPT Bahamas. Leo Fernandez, who owns a LAPT Main Event title (having won LAPT5 Panama), has about 90,000 at the moment, while Barry Greenstein (60,000) and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier are battling with below average stacks.
And Friend of Team PokerStars Felipe Ramos is still in and doing fine as well, sitting behind about 150,000 as they move into the second half of Level 13. --MH
12:23pm: Lemke makes wheel, collects
Level 13 - Blinds 1,000-2,000 (300 ante)
Arriving on the river with the board showing [8c][Ad][8d][4h][2s] and a big pot having already developed, Brian Lemke pushed all in and after some thought Ryan Blank made the call. Lemke tabled [5d][3c] for a rivered wheel, which was better than Blank's [Ac][Kd].
A big chip exchange there results in Lemke pushing up around 200,000 (and a top 10 stack) while Blank falls back to about 60,000. --MH
12:14pm: Shorties shoving
Level 13 - Blinds 1,000-2,000 (300 ante)
We're watching lots of short stacks getting their chips in the middle early on here at the start of Day 2, with the last three instances of which resulting in double-ups.
First Justin Oliver's ace-eight was able to outrun Kyle Frey's pocket queens when an ace came among the community cards.
Then at a nearby table Ramin Hajiyev was able to survive with king-jack against Arutyun Arutyunyan's ace-queen when the community cards brought a jack.
After that LAPT6 Peru Main Event champion Patricio Rojas was the one surviving when his pocket queens held up against the ace-queen of Will Molson. --MH
12:00pm: Day 2 begins
Level 13 - Blinds 1,000-2,000 (300 ante)
Players are in their seats and the first hands of Day 2 are being dealt. They'll start out with a couple more 50-minute levels, after which will come the day's first break. --MH
11:44am: 220 players return for Day 2
If you happened to be near the Predators Lagoon around eight this morning here at the Atlantis resort in sunny Nassau, you had a chance to witness feeding time. It's quite a scene.
One of the many friendly staff here explained what was happening as he tossed buckets of chum to the barracudas, sawfish, and eventually the hammerhead sharks who all circled wildly around him below the water's surface. Meanwhile above the surface the birds were likewise whipping about, with a couple actually managing to sneak in for a spare shrimp out of a bucket when the fellow wasn't looking.
The scene reminded us a little of what we saw here yesterday at the LAPT9 Bahamas Main Event, where by the time late registration closed there had been an incredible 851 entries (607 unique players, with 244 re-entries), well exceeding the 736-entry field from last year's inaugural version of LAPT Bahamas.
It was kind of a feeding frenzy, you might say.
Today 220 players return from that field, all of whom will be circling about the $1,650,940 prize pool of which the top 127 of them will get to take bites. A minnow-cash is $3,460, while the biggest chunk of $308,220 is scheduled to be gobbled up by the winner.
Right now Tyler Hurman is dominating the remaining player pool with a leading stack of 261,300, with Ismael Bojang his nearest challenger with 205,300 and Team PokerStars Pro Andre Akkari also wading close with 200,100. Chris Moorman, Daniel Weinman, Kevin Eyster, Danny Noseworthy, and Mukul Pahuja are also part of the school of players who'll be splashing with big stacks to start today.
Click here for a complete list of start-of-Day-2 chip counts along with the seat draw.
Play gets going in about 15 minutes at 12 noon ET. They'll be playing 50-minute levels again today (switching to hour-long levels when they reach a final table. The plan calls for them to try to get down to that eight-handed final table tonight, with a dinner break coming after today's eighth level (Level 20).
Keep circling this space yourself as we'll be serving up live updates throughout the day to satisfy your poker appetite.--MH
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PokerStars Blog reporting team on the LAPT9 Bahamas Main Event: Martin Harris, Alex Villegas. Photos: Carlos Monti.
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