Amir Lehavot made a late surge on Day 2B at the Main Event and finished with a big lead over second placed Peter DeBaene. In total 1,436 players made it to Day 3 from this group, meaning that the field will be approximately 2,100 strong when all of the remaining players get together for the first time today.

Phil Ivey (pictured) is doing very well and is in the Top 10 of 2B. Other notables over 200k are mentioned below. Defending champion Peter Eastgate was on the brink of elimination at one point, but rallied back and will return today with a stack of approximately 100k. Some players who did hit the rail were Tom Dwan, Scotty Nguyen, Howard Lederer and Erick Lindgren.

The players on top of the WSOP POY leaderboard had mixed fortunes, Jeff Lisandro is keeping good pace at 229k while Ville Wahlbeck struggles at 33k.

When play commences today at 12pm local time (9 pm CET), blinds will be at 600/1,200 (ante 200).

2B Top 10 plus some notables over 200k:

Amir Lehavot 610500
Peter DeBaene 465000
Troy Weber 453200
Dan Bilzerian 439500
Franklin Grigsby 424400
Gabe Walls 417900
Mikael Thuritz 395400
Jason Brice 376100
John Hammer 359400
Phil Ivey 346200
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JC Tran 284600
Kenny Tran 273000
Jeff Lisandro 229300
David Benyamine 228800
Justin Bonomo 223300
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier 207900
Aleksander Kostritsin 202600