In yet another hand where all of the action happened before the flop, Nathan Tuthill put his stack in the middle with and got called by Brian Saltus who held .
The flop of didn't help Tuthill's cause, and the on the turn put the nail in his coffin. The on the river didn't change a thing, and Saltus pushed his stack to 180,000.
Erika Trenck has become the first victim of three-handed play on Table 62. Christopher Moore now enjoys a two-to-one chip lead over Kyle Brossia, 300,000 to 150,000 respectively.
In another hand where the money got in before the flop, Tim Kahlmeyer shoved with from the button and got called by Marco Liesy who held from the small blind.
When the flop of put the king in the window, Kahlmeyer needed help that didn't come with either the or .
When Theo Tran busted from the table a few hands later, Liesy began heads-up play against Eugene Katchalov.
Nick Binger has taken the chip lead in his heads-up match with Ralph Shannon. With his brother Michael sitting a few tables over playing another event, Nick is sitting with 255,000 to Ralph's 195,000 right now. Things look very serious over there.
Yesterday, Maura Harris credited her boyfriend Dennis Phillips' lucky Cardinals hat with helping her advance to Day 2. Unfortunately, she didn't have the hat with her today.
Harris got her stack in preflop with against the of Rajesh Vohra. While she started off ahead, her lead vanished on the turn when the board came .
In another hand where a player moved in a with a weak kicker, Howard Boyd's short-stack shove with didn't work the way he wanted when he got called by Ronnie Chin who held .
When neither player improved on a board of , Chin's kicker played and Boyd was bounced from the event.