Abe Mosseri has nearly 450,000 reasons to smile.

The World Series of Poker saw 73 players return to start Day 2 of $2,500 2-7 Limit Triple Draw (Event 55). After a long day of play in the Miranda room, only 9 players will return for Day 3 and play down to a winner. Noted cash game player Abe Mosseri has almost 100,000 chip lead on the leaderboard.

Mosseri made a strong final table showing in the $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud HiLo 8-or-Better (Event 37) finishing 6th . That final table included Doyle Brunson, Justin “BoostedJ” Smith and was the 2nd of Jeffrey Lisandro’s 3 bracelets this year.

Mosseri will have a difficult time bullying the table with WSOP bracelet winners John Juanda and Blair Rodman in the field. Also in the field is Nam Le and Julie Schneider,wife of 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom Schneider.

Mosseri should be most concerned with Juanda. Having already strung together three final tables, Juanda is having an excellent series. He finished 4th in the World Championship No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball event, 5th in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event, and 9th in the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event. He will enter the final day 4th in chips.

Rodman is no stranger to Lowball games. He has a 10th and a 15th place finish in WSOP Razz events and a 10th and 21st place finishes in HORSE events. He did win his bracelet in a No Limit Hold’em event, but most recently made a deep run in $2,500 Mixed Event (Event 42) finishing 14th.

Not surviving Day 2 were Daniel Negreanu, Hasan Habib , Justin “Boosted J” Smith and John “The Razor” Phan.

Remaining Chip Counts for $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Event 55)

1. Abe Mosseri - 447,000
2. Blair Rodman - 358,000
3. Masayoshi Tanaka - 345,000
4. John Juanda - 182,000
5. Julie Schneider - 163,000
6. Brad Libson - 146,000
7. Hertzel Zalewski - 111,000
8. Nam Le - 95,000
9. Kris Lord - 87,000

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