WPT World Championship - Michael Rocco leads after Day 2, Anthony Zinno wins Player of the Year title

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Michael Rocco built the biggest stack, while Anthony Zinno won the Player of the Year title at Day 2 of the WPT World Championship, the final event of the World Poker Tour Season XIII. There are 68 players left in the hunt for the $973,683 first place prize.

The WPT World Championship started on April 25 at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.

166 players advanced from the 234 entrants on Day 1, Eric Panayioutou built the biggest stack, but there were several big names left in the field.

Registration was open until the start of Day 2, five players took advantage of this, which created a prize pool of $3.58 million with a first place prize of $973,683.

By the end of Day 2 there were 68 players left, the chip leader is Michael Rocco, but WPT champion Jonathan Jaffee, Brian Yoon, defending champion Keven Stammen and Jake Schindler are also in the top 10.

David Tuthill, Scott Clements, Matt Salsberg, Lee Markholt, Carlos Mortensen, Ravi Raghavan and Jonathan Little also advanced, but two players with an incredible performance in Season XIII, Darren Elias and Anthony Zinno were eliminated early on Day 2, but Zinno is probably not too upset, having won the Hublot WPT Player of the Year title.

Elias won WPT Borgata Poker Open and WPT Caribbean back-to-back and cashed in six other WPT tournaments (11th,15th,46th,47th,69th and 117th place) for a total of $1.06 million, setting a new record for most in the money finishes in a season.

Zinno won WPT Fallsview Poker Classic and WPT L.A. Poker Classic and cashed five more times (12th,23rd,23rd,27th and 65th place) for a total of $1.4 million.

At the start of the final event of WPT Season XIII, Zinno had a lead of 2056.15 points over Elias, who had 1777.85 points. 

With Elias' elimination, Anthony Zinno won the WPT Player of the Year title, and a special edition Hublot watch made for the WPT.

The tournament will continue from 12:00 local time, the average stack is 175,000 chips, which equals a 58 big blind stack.

Top 10

1. Michael Rocco 439,500
2. Jonathan Jaffe 428,000
3. Corey Hochman 398,000
4. Brian Murphy 380,500
5. Simon Lam 337,500
6. Konstantinos Nanos 326,000
7. Brian Yoon 309,500
8. Sang Kim 304,500
9. Keven Stammen 303,000
10. Jake Schindler 292,500