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The Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey once again played host to the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open on Tuesday, but this time for Day 2 action. At the start of the day, Abe Korotki led a field of 786 remaining players with 260,100 in chips. His lead didn’t last long and he was ultimately replaced by David Williams, a past WPT champ, as the chip leader.

Vanessa Selbst actually led for much of the day, but was finally passed by Williams shortly after the 14th level of play. Williams finished the day with over 700k chips, and he’s looking very strong for Day 3 despite the encroaching presence of Jack Schanbacher, Erik Cajelais, David Diaz, Eric Haber, Darren Elias and Maurice Hawkins, all of whom are major pros with dangerous chip stacks as well.

A number of other famous poker professionals are also in the running, albeit with smaller chip stacks. This includes Will “The Thrill” Failla, Lee Childs, John Racener, Robert Mizrachi and Matt Glantz. Although they’ll need to put in some serious effort and run into more than a little luck to reach the final table, they could all easily cash as the money bubble extends all the way to 100th place.

Several other pros weren’t so fortunate on Day 2. Maria Ho hit the rail early despite a good showing on Day 1b, and she was joined by Matt Brady, Matt Matros, Christian Harder, Ali Eslami, Steve Dannenmann, Jason Young, Tuan Le, Hasan Habib and Gavin Smith.

With the field whittled down to just 170 players in total, it seems likely that the money bubble could be broken during Day 3. Prizes range from $8,386 to $922,441, one of the biggest live tournament jackpots of the season.