December 12 2011, Rich Ryan

Day 2 of the 2011 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s Atlantic City is in the books. The day began with 215 players, but that number skyrocketed when over 100 players lined up to be alternates. When the dust finally settled, the tournament fielded 618 entrants, generating a prize pool of $899,190. Make the final table, and you’re guaranteed $17,516. Win, and you take home $188,830 and the gold ring.

No player had a more turbulent day than our chip leader; Tuan Phan. Phan was unafraid to get all of his chips in the middle, and was fortunate enough to win a 200,000-chip pot against Chris Reslock when he flopped a set against Reslock’s flopped flush. The board paired on the river, eliminating Reslock from the tournament and propelling Phan to the top of the leaderboard. Phan finished with an impressive 1.060 million chips – we’ll see if he can go wire-to-wire on Monday.

Hung Truong entered the day as the leader with 211,200 chips, and survived with 692,000 chips in his stack. He could’ve finished stronger, his peak was well over 700,000, but he’s certainly happy with advancing to Day 3. Jimmy Born was second in chips entering the day, and he too will return on Day 3 to chase the gold. Like Truong, Born was at one time flirting with seven figures, but only managed to bag 510,000 chips.

Peter Ippolito cashed, but failed to reach a second final table at this stop. He won Event #1 for $37,926, and added $4,388 to that today with his 33rd place finish. Other notables who cashed include Sirous Jamshidi (57th, $2,940), Mark Rose (54th, $3,192), Ashira Lavine ($3,192), Jeffrey Papola (38th, $3,507), and Steven Tabb (26th, $5,755).

Quite a few well known players busted short of the money, including Mark “Pegasus Smith, Mike “Little Man” Sica, Chris Tryba, Drazen Ilich, Carter Phillips, Josh Brikis and Matthew Chang.

The final 20 look like this:

Table 52

Table 62

Table 83

The tournament resumes Monday at 1200 EST (1700 GMT), where we will play down to a champion. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews.com for exclusive coverage of the WSOPC!

Follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news.

Follow Rich Ryan on Twitter – @RichTRyan

November 18 2011, Josh Bell

The excitement in the $15,000 Carbon Poker League is starting to heat up, so make sure you download Carbon Poker and don’t miss out on another moment of the action!

The Carbon League is still anyone’s game since the top of the leaderboard remains unchanged. A few players have managed to gain valuable points to begin making their way up the ladder.

The winner of last week’s weekly $5.00+$1.00 ($100 added) Friday was ”dreaminder,” who won all the cash and 30 Carbon League Points. The win put ”dreaminder” on a total of 40 points, putting him just outside of the top 10.

”Pbokss,” “Rogerdelpk,” and ”basker2b3” also had impressive finishes in the event and each of those players solidified their places on the leaderboard.

“XxMTVxx” continues to sit atop the leaderboard after managing to win huge league points in the first of three VIP freerolls which took place during the league.

$15,000 Carbon Poker League Leaderboard

”XxMTVxx” may have a lot of league points, but he won’t be hard to catch if players start taking part in each of the weekly league events. The weekly $3.00+$0.50 ($50 added) Tuesday event awards points as seen below, while the Friday event awards double points!

League Point Payout Structure

If you would like to make sure you have the best chance at making it to the top of the leaderboard, be sure to take part in one of the two remaining VIP freerolls.

The next VIP freeroll is set for Thursday, Dec. 1 and along with the free $1,000 added prize pool, it will also award a massive 120 Carbon league points to the eventual winner!

See below for a breakdown of the league points which will be paid in the VIP freerolls and see just how easy it is to make your way up the leaderboard.

With two weekly league events and still two VIP freerolls remaining, there are no excuses for players not to start taking part in the $15,000 Carbon League.

If you start playing now it will be extremely easy to finish in the top 30 players who will qualify to take part in the Big Final on Jan. 8 at 1800 GMT (1100 PDT).

The Big Final is what all the players are aiming to qualify for and you can see why, because thousands of dollars are awarded to the top 15 finishers in that event.

Big Final Payout Structure

Remember that the $15,000 Carbon Poker League is exclusive to PokerNews players, so if you don’t already have account through one of our links, make sure sign up to Carbon Poker through PokerNews. Also don’t forget our huge 150% up to $750 first deposit bonus!

For more information about the league visit the $15,000 Carbon Poker League page and prepare to start accumulating league points.

If you experience any problems with this or any of our promotions, please contact our Ticketed Promo Support System.