Matt Woodward made a late surge to capture the chip lead.

The World Series of Poker $2,500 Mixed Hold’em Event Limit/No Limit (Event 47) entered Day 2 with 67 players that survived 527 original entrants. After a long day and a flurry of eliminations early, 9 players survived reaching the final table. Matt Woodward will enter the final day with as chip leader after winning a series of big pots late in the evening.

Many of poker’s most familiar names were not able to survive Day 2: Daniel Nereanu, Gavin Griffin and Eli Elezra would all have an early night. Jean-Robert Bellande continues to find frustration at this WSOP and was out just before the money bubble again.

During hand for hand play it seemed if the bubble might never burst. Then in rare fashion three players were eliminated during the same hand: Bryan “Devo” Devonshire, Klein Bach and Charles Teplitz. The each received 2/3 of 54th and 55th place prize money - $3,159 apiece.

Allen Cunningham was in the mix until the end when he was busted in 15th place. He was short-stacked and desperate and moved in with 6 5 but could not improve on a board of J T 3 J 4 and Bahador Ahmadi’s A Q was good enough to win the pot.

Also falling just short of the final table was Mimi Tran. She moved the last of her chips with A J and Zachary Humphrey isolated her with A K. The board ran K Q 3 4 Q and Tran was sent to the rail in 13th place.

November Nine finalist Ylon Schwartz found some bad luck with pocket Kings and Aces after the dinner break. He first bet every street holding K K against a board of Q 9 5 T 3 and then mucked face up when Humphrey tabled A 9. Then holding A A he lost to a board of 5 Q 2 J 4 when David Baker held 5 5.

The field assembled at one table for ten-handed play and they played very cautiously; averaging about one showdown every fifteen minutes. With the 3 a.m. cutoff approaching the final table bubble finally burst. Lee Vlastaris opened with a raise, Barry Greenstein called, Hasan Habib raised and Karlo Lopez reraised. The blinds folded and Vlastaris called; Greenstein and Habib folded. The flop came K T 7 and Vlastaris check called to see the J on the turn and check-raised all-in. Lopez had him drawing dead with K K. Vlastaris’ tournament ended just short of the final table in 10th place holding A J.

Final Table Chip Counts for $2,500 Mixed Hold’em Limit/No Limit (Event 47)

1. Matt Woodward - 6670,000
2. Randy Haddox - 615,000
3. Bahador Ahmadi - 564,000
4. John McGuiness - 520,000
5. Karlo Lopez - 510,000
6. Ylon Schwartz - 295,000
7. Barry Greenstein - 230,000
8. Zachary Humphrey - 140,000
9. Hasan Habib - 135,000

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