One thousand, two hundred and fifty-one Day 1A and Day 1B survivors combined to play Day 2A of the WSOP Championship in what turned out to be a very fast day of play. It was also very much a day in which the rich got richer and the poor left early. Brian Schaedlich, a special education teacher from Cleveland, was clearly one of the players that parlayed a healthy Day 1 stack into an embarrassment of riches, starting with just over 160,000 and building it to a field-leading 801,000! And 2005 Tournament of Champions final tablist Brandon Adams took his above-average starting stack of 176,000 to over 350,000 in his second day of play. Adams, a Harvard PhD student, played to a deep 69th place in this event last year and is obviously making another run at it.

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