Groundhog Day is finally over. After three Day 1s and two Day 2s, 2,786 of the 7,874 players who signed up for the 2018 World Series of Poker main event are set to return Saturday morning as one combined group. Of the 1,655 who played to the end of Day 1C, no one had a better day than Ignacio Sanchez, who bagged 627,200 to bring the overall chip lead into Day 3. Phil Ivey had a pretty strong day of his own, and he'll take 434,200 (within the top one percent of all stacks) into Saturday's moving day. Previous main event champions Phil Hellmuth, Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Cada and Robert Varkonyi all advanced from Day 2C, while 2014 champion Martin Jacobson saw his 2018 main event run come to an end. Play resumes at 11 a.m. PT, with a strong possibility of the money bubble bursting before Day 3 play has ended. Pictured: Phil Ivey. Photo Credit: WSOP/Danny Maxwell.
