Iwan Jones is off to a good start on Day 2 after eliminating a short-stacked player when his was able to river two pair to crack the of his opponent on a board.
Jones is now well over the 100,000-chip mark and looking strong.
A nice double up to Con Tsapkounis sees the PokerNews Cup champ with a little more breathing room at he now sits with 66,000 chips.
It was a limped pot with Tsapkounis seeing a free flop from the big blind. It arrived and Tsapkounis check-raised all in over the flop bet of Mohamejd Taoube, who made the call.
Taoube:
Tsapkounis:
Taoube had top pair but Tsapkounis had flopped trips which held on the turn and river.
Jason Mann is another short stack to bite the dust on Day 2 action. After raising to 9,000 from under the gun and finding a caller in the big blind, Mann moved the last chips into the middle on a flop holding pocket tens. However the big blind had set the trap with his pocket aces, which held as Mann couldn't find a ten on the turn and river.
An opponent moved all-in for about 47,000 with on a flop that read , only to have a well-disguised Barry Woods call him down with , which improved to quads when the hit on the turn.
The river was merely a formality - the opponent is out, but Woods is now one to watch, sitting on 233,000 in chips!
A short-stacked Ewan Morgan moved all-in for his last 26,700 and was looked up by his (former) poker coach David Saab, who made the call from middle position holding . Morgan produced the and would need a little help from the board to stay alive, and that's exactly what he got.
The ensuing community cards filled out giving Morgan a six-high straight, besting Saab's wheel to win the pot.
We counted both players at just under 60,000 in chips after the hand.
Brendan Edmonds and Daniel Carter recently took part in an 87,000 flip that was won by Edmonds.
The two got it all in before the flop; Edmonds with big slick and Carter with a pocket pair of nines. The ensuing board ran out giving Edmonds two pair, kings and sixes, and the checkmark.
We were summoned over by one of the DeucesCracked team members, Chuck Danielsson who has a monster stack in front of him. He didn't give us all the details but his deuces flopped a set and busted an opponent.
New Zealand's Richard Lancaster approached the PokerNews team and said, "I just got a message from Jeff Putt, he said to have a look at his stack."
So we ventured out to table 33 where Putt was sitting and discovered that the distant relation of Graeme Putt was sitting a stack of 210,000, doubling what he started with today.
According to his recount, Putt managed to bust an opponent after managing to flop a set of nines against the opponent's pocket aces.
Putt was paid off; the opponent moved the rest of his stack in on the turn and the rest, as they say, was history.