Main Event Day 2 | 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - The Lodge Casino

03-24-2013 14:14 UTC-6

Lynch Makes Big Laydown

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Action started with Phillip Hui raising it up to 4,200 from under the gun. A middle position player put in a three bet to 14,000, and Mstr Lynch made the call from the button. It got back around to Hui, and he cut out a four bet of 40,000, and slid it in.

The original three better folded, and it was back to Lynch. He was in the tank for about a minute before reluctantly folding , and Hui keep his hand a secret. After that hand, Hui is up to 146,000, while Lynch drops to 96,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phillip Hui	146,000 80,000	80,000

Mstr Lynch	96,000 -14,000	-14,000

Tags: Mstr Lynch Phillip Hui

03-24-2013 14:02 UTC-6

A Few Bustouts

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Gardenhire	Busted
Michael Sanders	Busted
Aaron Massey	Busted

03-24-2013 13:54 UTC-6

New Crop of Big Stacks

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

We will have photos of these players up shortly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin St. Clair	310,000 310,000	310,000
James Faircloth	301,000 179,000	179,000
Jonathan Seelbach	246,000 120,200	120,200
Kevin Eyster	204,000 119,000	119,000

Bryan Campanello	190,000 190,000	190,000

03-24-2013 13:33 UTC-6

Rich Dixon on Quite the Heater

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Rich Dixon came into today as one of our shortest stacks, with just 14,900. He joked with us on the break that he wished he could have just brought in again, so that he would have started with more chips. Well it's a good think he didn't. Dixon has worked his once measly 14,900 stack to a top five stack of 165,000. Will Dixon be able to keep it up as the day goes on?

Player	Chips	Progress
Rich Dixon	165,000 165,000	165,000

03-24-2013 13:24 UTC-6

Chainsaw Cut Down

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler ran out of miracles on one of the first hands back from break. He open shoved his last 18,000 with in middle position, and Travis Northrope made the call from the big blind with . Neither player improved their hand, and ace high was good enough to knock out Kessler.

Player	Chips	Progress
Travis Northrope	56,000 56,000	56,000
Allen Kessler	Busted

Tags: Allen Kessler

03-24-2013 13:18 UTC-6

Scramble and Gamble

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Level 16 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The players are back from break, and we are ready to get things going again.

Level: 16

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

03-24-2013 13:05 UTC-6

Break It Up

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Level 15 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The players are on their first 15 minute break of the day.

03-24-2013 13:04 UTC-6

Chainsaw Riding The Roller Coaster

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Level 15 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

It has been quite an interesting few minutes for Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler. He came into the day fairly short with 34,000, and has just played a series of hands that has seen his stack move up and down like a seesaw.

The first hand was a big double up for Kessler. He got it all in preflop holding , and was up against the of his opponent. The board ran down , and Kessler won the race to get up to 70,000. "I needed that one," he said after the hand.

"Well I just lost it all," Kessler told us just a few minutes later. We walked over and saw that Kessler was all in against two other shorter stacks on an action packed flop of .

Opponent 1:
Opponent 2:
Kessler:

According to the table, opponent 1 open shipped on the flop, and Kessler shoved behind him. Unfortunately, his second opponent had woken up with a set that turned into quads on the turn, the . The meaningless river was the , and after that pot, Kessler was down to just 3,000.

He has not gone quietly into the night yet though. Two hands after that, Kessler doubled when his held against his opponents on a board that ran down .

"I'm all in again," Kessler said a few hands later. This time, he held and was up against the of his opponent. Again, Kessler managed to fade a ton of outs, as the board came down .

After being down to just one and a half big blinds a few minutes, Kessler is back up to 20,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Allen Kessler	20,000 -10,000	-10,000

Tags: Allen Kessler

03-24-2013 12:50 UTC-6

Hwang Crippled, Then Eliminated

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Level 15 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We caught the tail end of an interesting hand that left Andy Hwang with just 6,500 in chips. He was eliminated on the next hand.

In the first hand, Hwang was heads up with Raymond Dandrea on a board that had completed . There was about 45,000 in the middle, and Dandrea had put out a bet of 10,500. Hwang tanked for about 30 seconds while we were there, before eventually making the call. Dandrea tabled for just ace high, and Hwang sat up in his chair to see the hand. Then, his shoulders sunk, as he checked his cards one more time, before sending them to the dealer.

On the next hand, Ting Ho raised to 4,500 in early position, and a middle position player moved all in for his last 20,300. Hwang committed the rest of his chips out of the small blind, and when it got back around to Ho, she made the call to put both at risk.

Ho:
Hwang:
Opponent: