A short-stacked Jason Mercier moved all in for his last 7,000 with and watched another player three-bet to 24,000 behind with . The big blind also called with . Mercier was in a bad way and wouldn't find any help as the board ran out .
Mercier told PokerNews that he will be vacationing in Europe for awhile and will be playing the EPT Sanremo, a stop he won way back in Season 4.
Likewise, Taylor Paur was eliminated after being felled in the very first hand of the day:
taypaur Taylor PaurBusted first hand of the day AQ<AK.August 21 2012
Jude Ainsworth and Rino Mathis were seen leaving the casino, one after the other, due to a failure in day 2 chip accumulation.
No such problem for....
AngelGuillen25 Angel Guillen PeredaDoubled up to 135k after value betting big (my whole stack) on the river with AJ on JT684ss, got called by KT.August 21 2012
Theo_Jorgensen Theo JorgensenThe AC is working today so not melting, had my 2 cops of coffee the stack is at 160K and most importantly of all,... http://t.co/K4pbBxhfAugust 21 2012
johneamespoker John EamesReasonable start to day 2. Up to 60k #eptbarcelonaAugust 21 2012
John Eames' reasonable start has just got even better. He opened the button to 2,200 before Oleksii Kovalchuk raised to 6,800 in the small blind. Eames slid out a four-bet to 15,000 and the Ukrainian quickly folded.
RealKidPoker Daniel Negreanu@dnchips #EPTBarcelona hello average stack 118k QQ vs 77. Would be pretty cool to win this I guess. 279 left, 1082 started 160 get paid.August 21 2012
RaSZi Lex VeldhuisAnd I busted 3 hands before the end for 10bbs A9 vs QQ. Pretty standard ept day 2 for me. Gonna see how far I can swim in the ocean now.August 21 2012