Michael Guzzardi has been battling all day with a below-average stack. He finally found it necessary to push all in with , and was going to have to catch up to Michael Schnabel's .
The board came , ending Guzzardi's day. Schnabel is up to 60,000.
Jeff Mahoney has doubled through Tom Franklin after all the chips were in the middle on a flop of . Franklin had flopped trips with but found himself outkicked by Mahoney's .
A on the turn and a on the river gave Mahoney the double up to 47,000 chips with Franklin now in trouble with only 17,000.
After playing a nut flush very well earlier, but getting outdrawn by two-pair that filled up, Peter Gould had played very well to get himself back up to nearly one-hundred thousand. I say "had" because he has just become unlucky again to be eliminated. No outdraws this time, just a simple case of running pocket kings into an opponent's pocket aces.
On a flop of , the action was checked to Brian Schaedlich who bet 7,500. The small blind called and the cutoff folded. The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the . The small blind checked, Schaedlich bet 7,000 and the small blind called.
The small blind showed for trips and Schaedlich mucked. He's still the chip leader, but down to 480,000.
Ronald Moore moved his last 12,000 chips in from under the gun and it looked like he was going to be able to steal the blinds and antes, until the player in the big blind made the call.
Moore held pocket tens, but was in trouble against the big blind's pocket jacks.
The board of didn't help Moore and he was sent to the exit late on Day 2a.