Mads Amot raised to 5,200 from middle position and Sebastien Boyard called from the next seat before play folded to Vinny Pahuja on the button. He reraised all in for 33,700. Play folded back to Amot and he gave it up. Boyard tanked for a bit and then made the call.
Boyard: 
Pahuja: 
The board ran out 
and Pahuja was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
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From middle position, Ari Engel opened to 5,300, and Jonathan Duhamel three-bet to 12,700. Engel was undeterred, though, and he made another raise to 22,800 total. Duhamel's response was an insta-shove, and the insta-call came -- well, instantly. Engel had the 137,000 covered by a bit, so it was the former World Champ at risk as the cards were rolled over.
Showdown
Engel: 
Duhamel: 
Well, it was a misstep, but Duhamel was still drawing live for a big double. Engel managed to fade the six outs, though, and the 
board sent him the pot. With it comes the elimination of Duhamel, out in the last half hour of Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
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Busted | |
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One final round of shots with Neil Stoddart.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
We didn't see it happen, but rumor has it Gus Hansen just had his pocket kings cracked to end his day. We're not even sure who his knocker-out was, but we understand a player with ace-jack made trip aces on the turn and river to send The Great Dane to the pound.
Johnny Lodden opened the pot to 4,100, and Tomas Elexhauser three-bet to 13,200 out of positon in the small blind. The Team PokerStars Pro spent a couple long minutes in the tank, but he eventually called to proceed.
Heads up, the dealer spread out 
and Elexhauser instantly had 11,000 more chips in the pot. Lodden called that bet, and he called another 21,000 after the turn. On the river 
, the two men were content to check it down.
Elexhauser showed up 
for ace-high, and it was good enough to win the pot. After that exchange, he's pipped just ahead of Lodden, and both men are hovering right around the chip average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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130,000 | |
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120,000
25,000
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25,000 |
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When we walked up to the table, we joined a preflop battle in progress between Martins Adeniya and Martin Finger. In the cutoff seat, Adeniya had 22,700 chips out in front of him -- it appeared to be a four-bet. Finger had five-bet to 36,000 from the small blind, and we watched Adeniya reraise it right back to 50,000 total. Finally, Finger had enough of the clicking-back, and he announced the seven-bet shove. Adeniya immediately folded, leaving himself with 177,000 now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
540,000
11,000
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11,000 |
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177,000
-63,000
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-63,000 |
We missed the hand that took the rest of her chips, but after a level-long battle with the short stack, Melanie Weisner has been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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612,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
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546,000
36,000
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36,000 |
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529,000
289,000
|
289,000 |
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On the last hand before the break, Mike "Timex" McDonald and Alexander Kuzmin mixed it up in another big pot.
It began with Konstantin Puchkov opening to 4,500 under the gun, and Kuzmin flatted in the cutoff seat. From the button, McDonald squeezed in a reraise to 12,400, and Puchkov quickly called. The action froze back on Kuzmin, though, and he eventually decided that he wanted to play for more. Stacking out 40,000 chips, he made a back-raise, and McDonald responded by reraising all in for 91,800 total. That finally shook Puchkov out of the way, and Kuzmin asked for the count before calling. He had the covering stack, but only just.
Showdown
Kuzmin:
McDonald:
McDonald's eyes widened for just a moment as he willed the dealer to be kind in this coin flip.
The 
flop was a good sweat -- there's always a sweat -- and Kuzmin added the flush draw to his two overcards. The board-pairing on the turn was a good card for McDonald, robbing one of Kuzmin's outs and putting himself one card from the double.
That turn card would prove to be rather necessary for Timex, too. The river was a flush card for Kuzmin, but it made McDonald the superior tens full.
When Kuzmin counted down his losses, he was left with less than 4,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
201,000
143,000
|
143,000 |
|
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3,800 | |
