With around 11,000 in the pot and a flop reading , Marco Fantini checked to Mike Sowers who fired out 8,700.
After a call in between, Dmitriy Shilnikov made it 35,000 only to have Fantini move all in along with Sowers as Shilnikov made the call for his tournament life.
Fantini:
Sowers:
Shilnikov:
The turn paired the board, but it happened to be a good one for Sowers, as it was the before the safe fell on the river to send him to 280,000 as both his opponents were eliminated
After having more than half of his day two chip-stack in the big blind, Ramirez amazingly folded his hand only to find aces the very next one and double through.
The player in the small blind raised and Matt Marafioti defended his big blind. The flop came down and the player in the small blind bet 8,000.
Marafioti deliberately counted out his stack and after about 90 seconds announced he was all in. He had a bit more than his opponent and after about another minute, the player in the small blind called all in for about 25,000.
Marafioti's led his opponent's and held up safely as the turn card and river card fell.
That hand boosted Marafioti's stack to about 65,000.
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker. If you were just clicking away on the home page, you've stumbled across Day 2 of Event #42: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Yesterday, 2,521 players took to the felt to compete for the coveted gold bracelet. Those players generated a prize pool of $604,222, so the 277 players that remained at the end of the night have that to look forward to as well. Yes, 277 players will come back today, but seven of them will leave this tournament empty handed, as the final 270 will make the money.
Leading the pack coming into the day is Jackson Zheng with 151,000. Humberto Brenes is right behind him with 146,400. Carter Phillips is looking to make history if he can outlast this field. He would become the youngest player to ever win two bracelets in the same year, but he does have his work cut out for him. He comes into the day with a stack of 122,100. And rounding out the top ten chip counts is Arnaud Mattern with 107,500.
Keep it locked here as we bring you all the action from the red section here in the Amazon Room. The cards will be in the air shortly.