After the chaos and massive crowds of Day 1C Monday, there was seemingly a relative that came over the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas as Day 2AB of the 2016 World Series of Poker main event played out.
The massive crush of humanity that was saw 4,240 players pack into three different massive rooms was gone, replaced by a group of 1,847 that represented less than half the number that’ll come back for Day 1C Wednesday.
That’s not to say there wasn’t exciting action and a tremendous pace to the play in the Amazon and Brasilia rooms, though (and more on that later), as stacks grew and one player in particular distanced himself from the pack in the later stages of the day
Valentin Vornicu, the eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner, was having a pretty steady day until his stack completely exploded in the final few hours of play Tuesday.