Matt Berkey is two days away from the biggest score of his career.

Only 16 players remain in the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl and 15 of them finished Day 2 looking up – way up – at the chip leader, Matt Berkey. The 34-year-old poker pro bagged up 2,816,000 to end Day 2, more than double that of his nearest competitor.

The key pot for Berkey, who came into the day second in chips, came against Tom Marchese where he caught Marchese bluffing against his top pair. The pot was worth over 900,000 and pushed Berkey past 2,000,000 in chips. After the day wrapped up, Berkey knew he had put on a show.

Timofey ‘TrueTeller’ Kuznetsov, who came into the second day of play with the only stack over 1 million, didn’t see the end of Day 2. The young Russian pro ran his AhQh into Dan Colman’s AsAd for a huge part and then eventually found himself on the losing side of a flush draw against Jason Mercier and was eliminated.

While Berkey is the only player to break through the 2 million chip mark, six players finished with at least a million in the bag. Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel bagged 1,299,000, the second biggest stack. Dan Shak (1,243,000) and Jason Mercier (1,208,000) are right behind Seidel. Dan Smith, Bryn Kenney and Andrew Robl round out the group of players closest to Berkey.

The defending champ, Brian Rast, won’t be repeating the feat as Dan Smith took him out in an all-in preflop situation. Rast’s Ah5h wasn’t able to catch up to Smith’s AcJc and his run was over.

Daniel Negreanu headlines the other 17 players eliminated on Day 2. Negreanu took a number of successive beats and was finally eliminated by Kathy Lehne. She soon joined him on the rail. Other Dy 2 eliminations included Stephen Chidwick, Dominik Nitsche, Bobby Boldwin, Dan Colman and David Peters.

The remaining 16 players return on Tuesday to play down to a final table of seven players.

Day 3 Schedule

Action gets underway Tuesday at 1 PM PT. The Twitch stream runs from 2 PM – 5 PM PT on https://www.twitch.tv/pokercentral with CBS Sports Network picking up the live, cards up coverage at 5 PM PT

Top 10 Chip Counts

  1. Matt Berkey – 2,816,000
  2. Erik Seidel – 1,299,000
  3. Dan Shak – 1,243,000
  4. Jason Mercier – 1,208,000
  5. Dan Smith – 1,152,000
  6. Bryn Kenney – 1,097,000
  7. Andrew Robl – 1,075,000
  8. Phil Hellmuth – 936,000
  9. Fedor Holz – 751,000
  10. Rainer Kempe – 740,000