Welcome to our Day 2 coverage of Event #39, $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better. The starting field of 558 players is down to 155, each looking to capture the coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelet along with the $184,590 first-place prize.
On top of the field entering Day 2 is Raul Paez with 58,400. He is followed by none other than Phil Hellmuth with 40,200. Only 56 players make the money and we fully expect to reach that point. Ten levels will be played today and play is scheduled to resume at 2pm local time, about half an hour from now.
Be sure to keep it here throughout the day for updates on all of the exciting action! For a recap on yesterday's happening at the Rio, here is Lynn Gilmartin to break it all down.
Can Kim Hua is having a very nice 2013 World Series of Poker, cashing in three events and finishing runner-up in Event #20 for $171,577, but he will have to wait to make his sixth career WSOP final table. Hua entered the day with only 5,000 chips, and was unable to get anything going. He has been eliminated with unknown action along with a few other individuals.
A player brought it in with the , Savage completed, and the action folded to Chu, who called. The player who brought it in folded. Chu check-called a bet on fourth street, and Savage made a better board on fifth. He led out, Chu called, and both players checked on sixth and seventh.
"Two pair," the legendary tournament director announced, tabling .
We arrived at the table on sixth street where Kravchenko was already all in. Schneider was in the tank and eventually check-called a bet from Tehan. It was the same story on seventh street and Tehan tabled for deuces full of sevens. Neither Schneider nor Kravchenko could beat it and Tehan collected the pot.
Tom Schneider won't be winning his third bracelet of the 2013 World Series of Poker in Event #39.
Schneider was all in on third street in a four-handed pot.
David Wortham: /
Tom Schneider: /
Richard Ashby: /
Joe Tehan: / - folded on sixth street
Wortham forced Ashby out on seventh street and tabled for an 8-6 low and a pair of sixes. Schenider showed for a straight-flush draw on his first four streets, but bricked from there on out.