Players who made it through Day 1A or 1B of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event headed to the Rio’s convention center on Tuesday for Day 2AB. Those who played on Day 1A largely found themselves in the Amazon Room to start, while those who played on Day 1B were seated in the Brasilia and Pavilion rooms.

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Your end of Day 2AB chip leader is Tim Stansifer, who amassed a stack of 481,000, or 16 times the starting stack, to close out the first of two Day 2s. According to WSOP.com, “Stansifer sat atop the chip counts late in the day and had a surge during the last few hands to boost his stack up to a massive 481,500.”

Joe DaPHUNNIEman Kuether (pictured above) sits in fourth place after Day 2AB. He was the first player in the field to pass 400,000 in chips after flopping a flush to crack kings. Kuether ended the day at just over 400,000 and posted on Twitter that he had reached a milestone of sorts: “Took me 6 years, but I finally made Day 3 of the Main Event!”

Kuether has nearly $1 million in cashes in his PocketFives profile, including a $117,000 haul for winning the Full Tilt Poker $375,000 Guaranteed three years ago. He finished second in the site’s $750,000 Guaranteed for $89,000 in 2009 and has multiple wins in the Full Tilt $75,000 Guaranteed. He has $2.1 million in live tournament earnings, according to the Hendon Mob.

Still in the Main Event is last year’s champion, Ryan Riess (pictured), who made it through Day 2AB, albeit with only about 84,000. On a board of J-8-8-K-9, his opponent bet 5,500 and Riess called, only to see the other player flip over K-Q. Riess flashed a jack and sent his cards into the muck, dropping a 25,000-chip pot. His opponent had check-raised on the flop and the action went check-check on the turn.

One of the more abrupt exits of the day belonged to Annette Annette_15Obrestad. The inaugural WSOP Europe Main Event winner got her money in with the nuts on a 10-8-6 board and was up against David Farber, who had an overpair of jacks. The turn was a six, giving Farber a sniff at a full house, and a jack on the river filled his boat. Obrestad had one cash at this year’s WSOP, which came in the Little One for One Drop.

The end of Day 1A chip leader, Martin Jacobson, is in 11th place after Day 2AB. As WSOP.com put it, “He started the day as the only player over the 200,000-chip mark in the field and by the end of the day he had 342,700 chips, which is good enough to sit 11th in chips.” Here are the top 10 chip stacks after Day 2AB:

1. Timothy Stansifer – 481,500
2. Thomas Cannuli – 407,800
3. Tony Ruberto – 402,700
4. Joe Kuether – 401,200
5. Cai Zhen – 367,900
6. John Sacha – 364,400
7. Munir Shahin – 361,900
8. Kyle Keranen – 358,000
9. Timothy Reilly – 354,500
10. Thomas Roupe – 349,600

Day 2C will take place on Wednesday at the Rio and includes all of the survivors from Day 1C, the largest starting day in WSOP Main Event history. Everyone who made it through Day 2 will meet up on Thursday for Day 3.

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