$500,000 Guaranteed Main Event Day 2 | 2012 Sands Bethlehem DeepStack Extravaganza

$500,000 Guaranteed Main Event

Day 2 Started

12-16-2012 12:06 UTC-4

Table	Seat	Player	Chips
32	1	Daniel Shelbo	43,100
32	2	Robert Bowers	59,900
32	3	Vinny Pahuja	77,400
32	4	Timothy Chang	115,900
32	5	Jeffrey Spence	42,400
32	6	Dixit Patel	74,300
32	7	Jake Schwartz	69,700
32	8	Tanner Millen	153,200
32	9	Dan Spanton	52,200

34	1	Michael Franceschetti	31,800
34	2	Matthew Silberzweig	20,100
34	3	Ayman Sawaged	40,400
34	4	Jim Gilbert	8,200
34	5	David Konigsberg	38,300
34	6	Paul DiMinno	78,100
34	7	Adam Feldman	32,300
34	8	Brian Davis	101,100
34	9	Patrick Holter	87,600

38	1	Joseph Tracy	133,400
38	2	Brian Shaw	152,400
38	3	John Chapman	99,800
38	4	Anthony Messina	40,700
38	5	Dean Chen	34,200
38	6	Matthew Burnitz	100,500
38	7	Vince Baldassano	46,400
38	8	Dmitri Argaros	43,100
38	9	Ryan Riess	66,500

40	1	Artur Kos	39,800
40	2	Jeanette Baudouy	46,500
40	3	--empty--	--
40	4	Scott Baumstein	115,000
40	5	Michael Schoultz	111,100
40	6	Matt Brady	20,500
40	7	Tam Minh Nguyen	190,800
40	8	Naveen Chettipally	20,300
40	9	Frank Fratzola	91,200

41	1	Suraj Dalal	197,700
41	2	Matthew Diehl	14,400
41	3	Daniel Wach	200,100
41	4	Alan Kraut	136,900
41	5	Denis Gnidash	96,200
41	6	Coury Mascagni	104,200
41	7	Drew Johnson	52,700
41	8	Ian Searing	63,500
41	9	Richard Wagner	26,600

43	1	Mike Linster	25,600
43	2	Michael Ryan	109,700
43	3	Lou Procopio	57,600
43	4	Ketan Pandya	107,800
43	5	David Paredes	7,800
43	6	David Manzi	61,200
43	7	Michael Jouaneh	60,900
43	8	Jared Palmer	42,400
43	9	Pradeep Deshpande	83,100

47	1	Robert Wood	37,900
47	2	William Tonking	144,800
47	3	Terry Feusner	25,300
47	4	Kevin McColgan	91,300
47	5	Dennis Dekker	34,000
47	6	Richard Allen	126,700
47	7	Mikhail Alkhazov	104,300
47	8	Ryan D'Angelo	60,200
47	9	--empty--	--

49	1	Edward Pham	145,600
49	2	Drew Heller	61,400
49	3	Robert Miller	60,200
49	4	Jennifer So	126,300
49	5	Robert Colucci	23,200
49	6	Chris Klodnicki	228,000
49	7	Abhinav Asija	65,400
49	8	Micah Raskin	346,900
49	9	Neal Gvansan	34,700

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!

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 100

12-16-2012 13:11 UTC-4

Day 2 Begins

Shamus

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 100 ante

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.

12-16-2012 13:17 UTC-4

Paredes Out

Shamus

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pradeep Deshpande	92,000	8,900
David Paredes	Busted

Tags: David Paredes Pradeep Deshpande

12-16-2012 13:18 UTC-4

Sloppy Start For Klodnicki

Mickey Doft

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 .

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Klodnicki	166,000	-62,000
Drew Heller	125,000	63,600

Tags: Chris Klodnicki Drew Heller

12-16-2012 13:24 UTC-4

Allen Busts Wood

Mickey Doft

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 .

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Allen	146,000	19,300
Robert Wood	Busted

Tags: Richard Allen Robert Wood

12-16-2012 13:26 UTC-4

Doing the Short-Stack Shove

Shamus

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Konigsberg	40,000	1,700
Michael Franceschetti	34,000	2,200
Matthew Silberzweig	18,000	-2,100

Tags: David Konisberg Matthew Silberzweig Michael Franceschetti

12-16-2012 13:28 UTC-4

Heller's Kings Hold Again

Mickey Doft

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 .