Lamb Tops the Field After Day 2
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Day 2 of the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship is in the books. Leading the way after another five levels of play is Ben Lamb. Lamb won his first-ever World Series of Poker gold bracelet in Event #42: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship during this WSOP and also ran deep in Event #46: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed Championship. He currently leads the WSOP Player of the Year race and sits on top of this field going into Day 3 with 704,000 in chips.
This event returned with 124 players from the starting field of 128. Only four player hit the rail yesterday, but today a lot more vanished. Some of those that were eliminated on the day included Daniel Negreanu, Jean-Robert Bellande, Jason Mercier, Allen Bari, Dan O'Brien, Mike Matusow, Justin Bonomo and Tom Dwan. Defending champion Michael Mizrachi also hit the rail. At the end of the day, 74 players remained.
Under the gun, Mizrachi went all in for 7,900 and next to act, David Benyamine called. The rest of the table folded.
Mizrachi: 
Benyamine: 
Mizrachi took the lead on the flop as it rolled out 
. Benyamine picked up a few more outs on the 
turn and scored the elimination when the 
hit the river, ending Mizrachi's title defense.
Besides Lamb, Gus Hansen, David "OBD" Baker, Rami Boukai, Matt Glantz and Scott Seiver also has very solid days on the felt. They each built nice stacks and will head into Day 3 well above average. Other notables remaining include Barry Greenstein, Robert Mizrachi, Nick Schulman, Phil Hellmuth and 2009 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. champion David Bach.
Play resumes tomorrow at 3:00 PM PT and the schedule is to play five to six more levels. Be sure to check right back here at PokerNews for all the live coverage from the WSOP and this hefty $50,000 buy-in.