After 12 hours of poker action, 25 players are left to bag and tag their chips and head into Day 3 of Event #42: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em.
277 players came back for Day 2 and after just seven eliminations at the beginning of the day, the final 270 players were in the money. The chip leader to start the day, Jackson Zheng, would not stick around long enough to bag his chips at the end of the night. History will not be made tomorrow, as Carter Phillips, who could have become the youngest player to win two bracelets in the same year, was eliminated as well.
The chip leader going into tomorrow is James Schaaf with 1,258,000. Just behind him, and the only other player with over one million is Ryan Hemmel with 1,080,000. Deep into the money, Dean Hamrick was down to just 3,500 in chips, but managed to claw his way out of the trenches and is now sitting third on the chip leaderboard. Humberto Brenes is still lurking, rounding out the top five with 764,000. Bernard Lee will have some catching up to do tomorrow when he returns to the felt, as he will come back with the shortest stack at just 48,000.
Who will be left at the end of the day tomorrow? Keep it locked here to find out! We'll see you back here at 2:30 p.m. local time for all the action.
James Schaaf opened with a raise only to have Kevin Schaffel move all in from the small blind for roughly 200,000. Schaaf made the call and we were off to a showdown.
Schaffel:
Schaaf:
The board ran out to see Schaffel exit in 26th place on one of the final hands of the night.
Table 368
Seat 1: Peter Granlund
Seat 2: Humberto Brenes
Seat 3: Henrik Hoeg
Seat 4: Jose Obadia
Seat 5: Daniel Buzgon
Seat 6: Ian Wiley
Seat 7: Niccolo Caramatti
Seat 8: William Prieto
Seat 9: Dean Hamrick
Table 369
Seat 1: Kevin Schaffel
Seat 2: David Zeitlin
Seat 3: Brett Michael
Seat 4: Thomas Johnson
Seat 5: Mike Sowers
Seat 6: James Schaaf
Seat 7: Bernard Ko
Seat 8: Craig Bergeron
Seat 9: Michael Swick
Table 372
Seat 1: Andrew Rosskamm
Seat 2: Michael Vaccarello
Seat 3: Bernard Lee
Seat 4: Ryan Hemmel
Seat 5: Aaron Gustavson
Seat 6: Thomas O'Neal
Seat 7: David Siegel
Seat 8: Aaron Kaiser
Seat 9: Dustin Pattinson
to see Schaffel exit in 26th place on one of the final hands of the night.
Henrik Hoeg was crippled when his 
was unable to improve against Humberto Brenes' 
after the turn and river landed the 
and 
.
but was unable to improve against Brenes' 
when the final board ran out 
.
to see Pattinson double to 290,000 as Sowers slips to 386,000 in chips.