Samuel Oberlin, a 22-year-old student from Grand Rapids, Michigan, will be the chip leader when the final table of the WSOP Circuit event at Horseshoe Southern Indiana gets underway tomorrow at 2 p.m.
It took less than five hours for the 27 players returning on day two to get down to nine after Oberlin left Bob Cole on the bubble by beating his Ac-5c with A-K. The finalists include several pros, and perhaps the best-known player is Circuit regular Dean Schultz, who has racked up some 600,000 in tournament cashes, half of it coming from winning a Borgota/WPT $2,500 event.
This event had been notable because of the presence of a husband and wife, David and Stacy Kopacz. Stacy, however, went out midway through day two after losing most of her chips when she held pocket kings and lost to an A-K when an ace hit the river.
Here are the chip counts going into the final day:
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Samuel Oberlin
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229,500
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Jamin Stokes
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189,500
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Len Ashby
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177,000
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David Kopacz
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151,000
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Jerry Martin
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137,500
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Joey Couden
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128,000
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Derek Whelan
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117,500
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Dean Schultz
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114,000
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Ray Lynn
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17,500
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