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Bodog Poker pro Justin Bonomo is near the top of the leaderboard for Day 2 of the WPT Bellagio Cup V. (Bodog Beat Image)

Yes, that is a picture from the WSOP, but that's because we're at the Rio sweating out the drive to the November Nine. However, over at the Bellagio, the WPT Bellagio Cup V is moving into Day 2 and Bodog Poker pro Justin Bonomo is sitting pretty near the top of the leaderboard.

The $15,000 buy-in tournament drew out 268 players, most of whom busted out of the WSOP and walked over to the Bellagio and dropped down the money to take a seat. Off the top of our heads we can name David Benyamine, Bertrand "elKy" Grospellier, Prahlad Friedman and Joe Serock as players who ran deep in the 2009 WSOP Main Event and are now playing in this event just days, or even hours, later.

There are currently 218 players remaining with Alec Torelli as the chip leader with 308,675. Behind him are Cornel Cimpan (285,000), Michael Mizrachi (182,700) and Bonomo (175,675), all in the top ten. Other notables in the top half of the standings include Tim Phan, the aforemention Grospellier, Isaac Haxton, Hoyt Corkins, Jeff Madsen and several others.

They will play a grand total of five levels today and then call it quits (lucky, we'll be at the WSOP until at least 4am by all estimates). Check out the WPT live updates crew for all of your tournament news and if you want to qualify for as little as $1 to play in a WPT even yourself, then check out the Bodog Flight Club promotion.