Drew Heller opened to 2,800 from middle position and Robert Colucci shoved for roughly 26,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Heller who called with , leading Colucci's .
Michael Franceschetti just pushed his below-average stack all in from middle position, and it folded around to David Konigsberg in the big blind. He folded, showing the as he did. "I own this card," he joked before complimenting Franceschetti on a good hand.
On the next hand Matthew Silberzweig opened from the cutoff, then it was Konigsberg's turn to shove his short stack as a reraise from the small blind. "I thought you always had a deuce?" asked Silberzweig before folding to preserve his short stack. Konigsberg just smiled in response as he gathered the chips.
Down to 13,000, Robert Wood moved all in from middle position with . Richard Allen woke up with in the big blind and called, scoring the elimination when the board ran out .
A series of raises between Chris Klodnicki and Drew Heller led to Heller all in for 61,200 with . Klodnicki was behind with and took an early hit on Day 2 when the board ran out .
David Paredes began today with the shortest stack in the room, 70th of 70 with just 7,800 to start. And on the first hand he'd push those chips all in from the middle position and get a single caller in Pradeep Deshpande from the small blind.
Paredes had and Deshpande . But the flop came badly for Paredes, the first three community cards — — giving Deshpande trip queens. Paredes immediately began to move from his seat as he watched the turn and river fall, then bid everyone adieu as the first elimination of the day.
After about a ten-minute delay to make sure everyone was settled, play is underway on Day 2. Levels will be lasting 75 minutes today. The current plan is to play through Level 18 or down to a final table, whichever comes first.
Welcome to PokerNews' Day 2 coverage of the 2012 Sands Bethlehem DeepStack Extravaganzana Main Event. After two Day 1 sessions that played 10 levels each, our starting field of 188 entrants is down to just 70 players, each looking to capture the $135,000 first-place prize.
Leading the way into Day 2 is Micah Raskin with 346,900. He is followed by Chris Klodnicki (228,000) and Daniel Wach (200,100), the obky i. The plan today is for the final table of nine to be reached or for eight 75-minute levels to be played (whichever comes first).
The Day 2 table and seat draw is being constructed at this time, so we'll have that posted for you as soon as it is made available. Play resumes at noon local time, about an hour from now, so be sure to keep it throughout the day for live updates on all of the exciting action!