From under the gun, Dan Hirleman raised to 2,500. Ryan Hughes reraised to 6,200 from middle position and then action folded over to John Dolan in the small blind. Dolan moved all in for approximately 30,000 in chips. Hirleman and Hughes both folded to give Dolan the pot.
On a board, Jordan Morgan and David Baker were heads up. Baker was the one doing the betting, and Morgan was just calling a bullet on the turn as we joined the action. There was just less than 50,000 in the pot.
The filled out the board on the river, and Baker fired another 16,600 at the pot. Morgan looked deflated as if he was about to make a call he knew was wrong. He eventually did drop the chips into the pot, and he promptly mucked when Baker showed him the .
Baker adds a big pot to his stack, and it looks like he's up around 175,000 or so now. We'll have to wait until he does some housekeeping to get a better count, though. Morgan, on the other hand, is back down around 30,000 with that loss.
Jose "Nacho" Barbero got his last 8,500 chips into the middle with against an opponent with . The board ran , and Barbero can beat the break-time rush out of the room. His day is done.
With 5,000 in the pot and a flop of , Kathy Liebert checked to her sole opponent on the button. He bet 1,600, Liebert gave a little speech and then raised to 5,600. The button wasn't convinced and reraised to 10,600. Liebert cheerfully moved all in for about 10,000 more and the button insta-mucked.
"That's how you play the ace-deuce, baby!" Liebert exclaimed. "I played that like Phil Hellmuth. You can quote me on that." Liebert then broke into a fairly accurate Hellmuth impression. She is sitting with around 45,000.
No sooner did we get into the second level of the day than Barry Greenstein was eliminated. It happened in a blind vs. blind situation: Greenstein's against his opponent's . He managed to flop a flush draw, but couldn't connect.
Randy Lew raised to 2,600 from middle position and received calls from the player in Seat 8, Joe Hachem in the cutoff, and the player of the button. Four players watched the flop fall and Lew checked. Seat 8 took the opportunity to bet 8,000, which only Hachem called. When the dealer burned and turned the , Seat 8 moved all in for 50,600. Hachem had a stack of about 80,000 so a call would constitute the vast majority of his chips.
He thought long and hard before asking his opponent if he'd show after a fold. "One time for an old guy like me," Hachem pleaded as he tossed his cards in the muck.
"Just because you're Joe Hachem," Seat 8 explained as he tabled for a flopped set.
Joe Tehan raised to 2,600 from early position and then a player in middle position called before Joseph Cheong also called in the cutoff seat. The player in the big blind also called and the flop came down . Action checked to Tehan and he bet 5,200. The next player folded, Cheong called and the big blind called.
After the landed on the turn, action checked all the way to Cheong. He moved all in for 23,200 and both the big blind and Tehan folded.