Assadour Assadourian told PokerNews on Day 1 that he's taken lots of tips from his son Eric since he started playing poker. Assadour didn't need any of those tips to make an easy call with when a player in front of him moved all in for 10,000 chips. His opponent showed , and Assadour's 3-to-1 edge held up on a board of . He now has 63,500 chips.
Kristine Milinkovic has doubled up with against an opponent holding . All the chips were in preflop with the board running out . She's now well placed with nearly 80,000 chips.
Antonis Kambouris was looking at a stack of 23,500 and a raise from middle position to 2,200. He decided to ship his stack into the middle, putting his faith in . The original raiser wasn't the party to be worried about; it was the big blind, who moved in over the top of Kambouris with . That folded the original raiser, sending Kambouris and the big blind off to the races. Kambouris was the victor on a board of . He's over 50,000 in chips now.
It didn't take Gaving Griffin long to re-acquire the chips that he recently surrendered to Simon Wallace. Griffin was sitting in the small blind when Shane Moran opened the pot for 2,100 and was called by Kevin Wagler. Griffin reraised to 8,500, folding Moran. Wagler made the call.
Both players checked the flop. Griffin checked again when the turn fell , then called a bet of 9,000 from Wagler. On the river , Griffin led out for 19,000. Wagler moved all in, bringing a double-fist-pump-snap-call from Griffin, all in for less -- about 58,000 total. Wagler flopped a small full house with , but was second-best to Griffin's turned full house with . Griffin dragged a monster pot of roughly 153,000 chips, crippling Wagler in the process.
Gavin Griffin opened with a raise to 2,100 before Simon Wallace popped it to 6,500. Antonio Fazzolari cold-called in the big blind and Griffin made the call as well.
The flop came down and Fazzolari led out for 5,000. Griffin popped it up to 15,000 before Wallace moved all in for 57,100. Fazzolari folded and Griffin made the call.
Wallace:
Griffin:
Both players were drawing but Wallace was in front with his pair and better flush draw. That is, until the the turn landed the to give Griffin the lead with his pair of tens. However the river was the , to complete the flush for Wallace and provide him a huge double-up to send Griffin back to 76,000 chips.
Day 2 has started off horribly for Jonathan Karamalikis. He got all in preflop with Frank Saffioti. Karamalikis was in a dominating position, tabling against Saffioti's , but the board ran out to make a ten-high straight for Saffioti. He doubled to about 45,000. Karamalikis was left with only 5,200.
A few hands later, Karamalikis reraised all in over an open-raiser and a caller. Karamalikis held pocket eights and couldn't dodge the overcards he needed to. The other two players held and and both hit an ace on the turn to send Karamalikis to the rail.