Miltiadis Kyriakides opened with a raise to 25,000 from middle position, Jason Everett called from the button, and Keven Stammen called as well from the big blind. The flop came . Stammen checked, Kyriakides continued for 35,000, Everett folded, and Stammen called.
The landed on the turn, and both players checked. The river then brought the . Stammen contemplated for a moment, then led with a bet of 84,000. Kyriakides then pushed all in and Stammen quickly called.
Stammen tabled for quads, eliciting "wows" from several at the table. Kyriakides briefly flashed his hand — for eights full — before mucking his cards. He had a broad smile on his face, though, and quickly stepped over and reached across the table to shake Stammen's hand. "Sorry, man," said Stammen, who was grinning as well. And still was several minutes later, too.
The tournament director has just announced that our remaining two tables will play out four more hands before bagging and tagging for the night. Chip counts and the recap will come shortly.
We had one last big chip swing during the final hands of the night, occurring in a hand between Francisco Azares and Niel Mittelman.
The board was showing , and when the river card arrived, Mittelman set out a stack of orange chips for a bet of 100,000 (something close to the size of the pot). That's when Azares said he was all in for the 281,000 he had left, sending Mittelman into the tank.
Mittelman went through a series of exasperated expressions as he gathered together the calling chips. Then he finally pushed the chips forward, looking upward at the ceiling as he did as if he didn't want to see what Azares was going to turn over.
Mittelman did look down, however, and saw the bad news — for Azares, giving him a full house. Mittelman had to laugh as he mucked, saying he'd had a flush.
After ten additional levels of No-Limit Hold'em action, Event 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em is history with just 16 players remaining. Thomas Conway won the day by bagging the most chips - 880,000 to be exact. Right behind him is Nelson Robinson with 871,000 in chips.
Day 2 began with 297 players, but they dropped like flies as we lost over 100 players within the first hour, including notables Victor Ramdin, Barry Hutter, Pascal LeFrancois and Erik Seidel.
Others who fell during Day 2 include Joe Cada (112th), Jonathan Little (104th), Soi Nguyen (88th), Jude Ainsworth (78th), Ivan Demidov (76th), Joe Tehan (73rd), Maya Antonius (65th), and Amnon Filippi (62nd), who was eliminated by Travell Thomas after coming into Day 2 as one of the chip leaders.
As more and more of the field was wiped out, many eyes were on Blair Hinkle, who recently got 4th place in Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Hinkle was near the chip lead for some time, however, he eventually busted in 24th place after running top two pair into Niel Mittelman's top set for all his chips.
One to watch during Day 3 is our last woman standing, Anke Berner. Berner came into Day 2 with just 7,600 in chips and said she expected to play just one hand. Instead, Berner will come into Day 3 with 655,000 and will look to use those chips to become the first woman to win an open World Series of Poker event since Vanessa Selbst back in 2008.
Here are our final 16 players and chip counts:
Player
Chips
Thomas Conway
880,000
Nelson Robinson
871,000
Darren Rabinowitz
760,000
Patrick Karschamroon
678,000
Francisco Azares
678,000
Anke Berner
655,000
Keven Stammen
654,000
Niel Mittelman
578,000
Jaspal Brar
551,000
Kevin Elia
503,000
David Forster
437,000
Jason Everett
399,000
Rocco Palumbo
382,000
Travell Thomas
368,000
Mario Delis
234,000
Paul Sokoloff
209,000
Play is set to begin tomorrow at 1:00 PM PST. Be sure to stick with us right here at PokerNews as we race our way to a final table and crown an eventual champion!
. Stammen checked, Kyriakides continued for 35,000, Everett folded, and Stammen called.
landed on the turn, and both players checked. The river then brought the 
. Stammen contemplated for a moment, then led with a bet of 84,000. Kyriakides then pushed all in and Stammen quickly called.
for quads, eliciting "wows" from several at the table. Kyriakides briefly flashed his hand — 
for eights full — before mucking his cards. He had a broad smile on his face, though, and quickly stepped over and reached across the table to shake Stammen's hand. "Sorry, man," said Stammen, who was grinning as well. And still was several minutes later, too.
, and when the river card arrived, Mittelman set out a stack of orange chips for a bet of 100,000 (something close to the size of the pot). That's when Azares said he was all in for the 281,000 he had left, sending Mittelman into the tank.
for Azares, giving him a full house. Mittelman had to laugh as he mucked, saying he'd had a flush.
