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Matt Matros tops the Day 1 survivors
Join us at 2:00 PM Pacific Time on Friday for the resumption of Day 2 play in Event #9, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed. A lively first day of action saw a field of 1,236 starters trimmed all the way down to 71, well inside the money bubble.
Leading the survivors after Day 1 play is Matt Matros, who will return to action today stacked at 156,600. Here's how the complete top ten stands entering Day 2 action:
Matt Matros 156,600
Rep Porter 137,200
Thomas Fuller 110,200
Peter Marr 104,700
Avery Cardoza 99,300
Zachary Clark 94,000
William Mikolay 87,000
Jonas Danielsson 83,900
Tom Braband 82,700
Dave Zand 82,300
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Welcome back for Day 2 of Event #9 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six-Handed. Players have just been allowed into the Green section of the Amazon Room to unbag their chips and count down their stacks. As soon as all of the bags are off the table we will get underway.
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Although there are only 71 players remaining, players are not sitting back on their thumbs and trying to slide up in the payout structure. On Green #3, Wes Pantling opened the pot from the cutoff for 4,500. He was reraised by the button, Cody Slaubaugh, to 12,000. When action folded back to Pantling, he tanked for two minutes, looking everywhere but directly at Slaubaugh. Then he put in the third raise to 36,000, leaving himself only 15,000 behind. Slaubaugh quietly folded; Pantling flashed .
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Suited connectors must look like gold today. Rod Fani got his whole stack in holding ; he was up against Andrew Fegan's . The board came out to send Fani to the rail. He will collect $3,205.
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We missed the action, but caught up with this hand in time to see Neil Channing, holding , eliminated by Michael Brummelhuis and his pocket jacks on a board of .
We thought eliminations might slow down somewhat today now that players are getting deeper in the money, but so far that hasn't been the case.
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After a day chock-full of eliminations and action, in less than 12 minutes, four players have been sent to the rail after moving all in before the flop.
Here's one:
Nghia Lee was the first player down, moving all in with and getting called by Thomas Patzner, who had in the big blind.
The board ran out .
And another:
Edward Damidot raised all in for his last 16,000 and was called by Zachary Clark with . Damidot showed Q-J. The board came , and Clark is up to 115,000.
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Another player picking up suited connectors means another player eliminated. This time, Ernie Rossi got the remainder of his in preflop holding . He was called by Peter Marr's . A flop of made Marr a prohibitive favorite. His two pair held up when the board bricked out .
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; he was up against Andrew Fegan's 
. The board came out 
to send Fani to the rail. He will collect $3,205.
, eliminated by Michael Brummelhuis and his pocket jacks on a board of 
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and getting called by Thomas Patzner, who had 
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and King was eliminated.
made Marr a prohibitive favorite. His two pair held up when the board bricked out 
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