With two early-position limpers in front of him, Michael DeMichele decided to try and squeeze with and pushed his last 11,000 into the middle. However one of the limpers called and tabled a dominant .
The flop came to give DeMichele with a pair of eights, but the turn was the to give his opponent an unbeatable nut flush. The river was a meaningless and DeMichele is eliminated.
Both short-stacked to begin the day at around 25,000, Adam Restifo and Roeland Knijnenburg just had an all-in confrontation, with Restifo barely having Knijnenburg covered.
Restifo had , and Knijnenburg . The board came ... . That king on the river meant the end of the day for Knijnenburg.
Team PokerNews member Tiffany Michelle started Day 2b off on the right foot. A player moved all in from the cutoff for about 13,000 and Michelle made the call from the button with . Her opponent showed , and off to the races they went.
A very non-threatening board of allowed Michelle to pick up the pot and knock out her opponent. She now has about 62,000 in chips.
On a flop of , Bill Chen check-raised all in and was called by a shorter-stacked player. Chen tabled and while he trailed his opponent's , he had plenty of outs.
Chen came up short when the turn and river blanked for him, coming the and respectively.
Chen was left with just about 15,000 chips after the hand.
After fooling everyone with a clever disguise on day one, the original Phil Laak is back today and he is in full flight as he lights up in the Tropical Room with the entertainment that we usually expect from this popular poker personality.
In early action a late-position raiser made it 1,300 to go before Laak popped it to 3,100 from the big blind. They took a flop of and Laak led out for 5,000, which forced a fold from his opponent.
Laak jumped out of his chair and exclaimed "Chemical Brothers is the best for good hands!" -- referring to the music he was listening to on his iPod. "For bad hands, it's Billy Joel!"
The very next hand Laak raised it up again and everyone folded. He flashed pocket aces and yelled, "Yes! Another Chemical Brothers hand! Chemical Brothers, baby!"
His voice is often the only noise you can hear in the Amazon Room and he now sits behind 53,000 chips.
Before the flop Emanuel Seal raised with and called when a short-stacked player moved all in. Seal was up against and the two saw an interesting flop-- . Seal needed an ace and that's just what the turn brought, the . The other player was already walking away from the table when, incredibly, the hit on the river to give both players quads with an ace kicker. "It's a chop, it's a chop!" Joe Hachem called after the player who thought his Main Event was over, and granted a reprieve he quickly returned to re-take his seat.
With the board reading and with his opponent having checked, Allen Cunningham bet 10,000 and was immediately called. The other player showed and Cunningham mucked without showing his cards. He's now down to 14,300.