They're Dropping Like Flies...

Only 4 hours into Day 2a and lots of big names are busting out: Mike Sexton; Men "The Master" Nguyen; Eric Froehlich; John Juanda; Barry Greenstein; Bill Gazes; Andrew Black - 5th place in 2005 Main Event - this may drive him back to the Buddhist Monastery.

Of the 980 still standing today are Humberto Brenes, Allen Cunningham, Daniel Alaei, David Grey, Chris Ferguson, David Sklansky, Layne Flack, Mark Vos - he overslept and was almost 2 hours late, Carlos Mortensen, David Pham, Annie Duke,Hoyt Corkins, Devil Fish Ulliott, Kristy Gazes, Scotty Nguyen and Phil Ivey.

One player has passed 220K in chips: James Crowshaw with 229K chips.