With the World Series of Poker just round the corner it seems players in the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship are in a hurry.
One of the smallest starting fields in recent WPT history (just 227 players started the tournament) has already been whittled down to just 33 with two days left. Leading the field is Ryan Daut, winner of the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, another World Poker Tour televised final table.
Daut will start Day Three with $320,000 chips, slightly ahead of the Day One chip leader Shawn Buchanon who has $275,000. Most of the big name pros have now been knocked out, but John Juanda, Barry Greenstein, David Levi, Michael Mizrachi, Jared Hamby, Alan Goehring, Thomas Wahlroos, and Billy Baxter are still in the hunt and will be a threat as the field thins.