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We didn't see the hand that did him in, but Kurt Jewell was unable to parlay his big Day 2 stack into a deep run. The last time we saw him, he was making his rounds through the tournament room, repeating his elimination quickly to several people and wishing his friends luck.
The man who has won two WSOPC Main Events in two years will have to wait until Atlantic City to try for number three.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
The players are on their first 10-minute break of the day.
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
96,600
|
96,600 |
|
||
|
168,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
||
|
158,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
|
||
|
143,000
29,600
|
29,600 |
|
125,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
110,000
16,500
|
16,500 |
|
70,000
7,200
|
7,200 |
|
||
|
70,000
31,800
|
31,800 |
|
|
68,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
62,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
57,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
45,000
11,500
|
11,500 |
|
43,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
Busted | |
We picked up a three-way pot on the flop as the dealer spread out 
. Action checked all the way around, and the 
hit fourth street. Danny [Removed:376] led out with 6,200, and both Barry Hutter (who appears to have been the preflop raiser) and Drazen Ilich called to see the river.
It was the 
, and now [Removed:376] checked it again. Hutter took his cue to make a bet of 16,400, and Ilich made a relatively quick call. [Removed:376], though, spent a long time in the think tank, and he looked to cut out a raise at one point before grabbing the calling chips and throwing them into the pot.
Hutter tabled 
, and it was the winner. Ilich flashed his own 
, [Removed:376] mucked, and that nice pot moves Hutter all the way up to about 210,000 and into the chip lead as we see it right now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000 | |
|
|
||
|
80,000
3,200
|
3,200 |
We missed the hand that knocked Bernard Lee out of this Main Event, but he was kind enough to fill us in before he left.
Lee tells us that an aggressive young player opened to 3,500 on the button before he looked down at pocket nines in the big blind. The pro made a big three-bet to 11,100, but his opponent shoved right back over the top. Lee had about 40,000 chips left, and he snap-called with his nines. Mr. Opponent was flipping for the knockout with 
and another queen on the flop has sent Lee to the rail here in the early afternoon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
|
128,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
|
115,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
|
98,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
|
97,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
||
|
|
67,000
-15,900
|
-15,900 |
|
47,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
43,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
|
40,000
-34,300
|
-34,300 |
|
39,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
A player in middle position opened with a raise to 4,500, and the action came around to Chad Batista in the small blind. He held all 14,900 of his chips in his hands with a bit of a frown on his face, then spilled them out into the pot to make an all-in three-bet. The raiser quickly called with 
, and Batista's 
had him as a strong favorite to stick around.
The board ran 
, and Batista has rebounded back to about 33,000 after a rough start to his Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
33,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
The last time we checked on John Riordan, he had gone down to 50,000, then back up to 95,000.
It appears he's been doing good work in the meantime. He was stacking up a pot as we went over to check on him, and the addition to his chip stack vaults him all the way up to 305,000. That's good for the chip lead as far as we can tell, and Riordan certainly knows his way around a big stack in this building.
If you're still not sure who this Riordan guy is that we're talking about, have a read through the coverage of last year's Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
305,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
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