Five More Hands
The tournament director has just announced that our remaining players will be dealt five more hands before bagging and tagging for the night. Full chip counts and a recap will be provided shortly.
The tournament director has just announced that our remaining players will be dealt five more hands before bagging and tagging for the night. Full chip counts and a recap will be provided shortly.
We've had few bustouts during the final hands of Day 2.
First, Cody Slaubaugh went out in 54th. Then the next bust came at the hands of Alex Cordero (again). Hoi Lee was all in before the flop with against Cordero's , and when the board ran out , Lee was out in 53rd place.
Soon after Jake Cody was knocking out Denis Simard with against the latter's . The community cards came , and we are down to 51.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alex Cordero |
845,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
Jake Cody |
330,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
|
||
Hoi Lee | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alex Cordero |
822,000
721,525
|
721,525 |
Franklin Johnson |
789,000
759,450
|
759,450 |
Dimitri Holdeew |
593,000
243,000
|
243,000 |
Bao Dao |
477,000
471,400
|
471,400 |
Iakov Onuchin |
474,000
114,000
|
114,000 |
Hieu Nguyen |
473,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
Erik Hellman |
437,000
418,875
|
418,875 |
Daniel Eichhorn |
398,000
153,000
|
153,000 |
Andrea Tropea |
383,000
350,850
|
350,850 |
Sebastien Comel |
376,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Aditya Agarwal |
347,000
305,800
|
305,800 |
Evan Orman
|
340,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Bryan Mileski |
338,000
330,025
|
330,025 |
Christopher Hart |
332,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Todor Plaseski |
310,000
271,925
|
271,925 |
James Taylor |
308,000
275,875
|
275,875 |
Fernando Suaya |
304,000
139,000
|
139,000 |
Gaetano Dimaria |
304,000
287,125
|
287,125 |
Jake Cody |
302,000
224,400
|
224,400 |
|
||
Yoav Tenenbaum |
302,000
286,025
|
286,025 |
Sohale Khalili |
292,000
277,025
|
277,025 |
Christopher Bonita |
287,000
268,200
|
268,200 |
Jonathan Hilton |
285,000
246,400
|
246,400 |
Joshua Prager |
283,000
263,100
|
263,100 |
Alin Pandilica |
275,000
216,500
|
216,500 |
Day 2 of Event 59: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em is history with Alex Cordero as your current chip leader (822,000). Not too far behind are Franklin Johnson (789,000), Dimitri Holdeew (593,000) and Bao Dao with 477,000 in chips.
Today we saw a merging of the surviving players from Day 1a and Day 1b, which brought a total of 726 players together to duke it out. When all was said and done, just 51 would remain to see a Day 3.
Eliminations came swiftly and before we knew it, the money bubble had burst by the middle of the eleventh level. Some notables who were knocked out early, but still managed to cash include Jeff Madsen (456th), Jeffrey Manza (450th), Tony Dunst (424th) and Konstantin Puchkov (381st), who made history by cashing a record-breaking eleventh time in a single series.
Phil Ivey was another player to fall short on Day 2. After working his stack up to nearly 80,000 during level 13, Ivey's stack went on a bit of a roller-coaster ride - both swinging upward and downward as opponents doubled through him and he doubled through opponents. Ivey eventually met his end after pushing all in with and losing out to Yoav Tenenbaum's . Ivey's 208th-place finish marked his seventh cash of the series.
Alex Cordero (the overall chip leader of both Day 1's) used his abundance of chips to play many pots and put pressure on his opponents throughout the day. A key hand for Cordero occurred when he rivered the nut straight and got paid off by his lone opponent. Cordero's stack slipped a little toward the end of the night, but managed to come back strong by eliminating a couple of opponents in the last level.
Jake Cody will also be joining the field in Day 3. Cody's stack was anything but consistent throughout the day - both rising and falling as he found himself in big pots late in the day. By the end, Cody bagged up 302,000 and will be looking to make a run for a second gold bracelet.
Our remaining field will resume play tomorrow at 1:00 PM PST and continue until either ten levels have passed or a final table has been decided. Be sure to stick with us here at PokerNews as we provide you with all the action from the felt!
Event 59: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed