Chance Kornuth has dispatched of Brian Powell and Andrew Robl took care of Roberto Romanello.
In the latter match Romanello moved his short-stack all-in with 
but was looked up by Robl with 
and didn't find the three-outer he needed.
After spending most of the day waiting around, it didn't take Martin Kabrhel long to send [Removed:283] packing. We'll see Mr. Kabrhel back here tomorrow.
We found Daniel Steinberg betting out 6,500 on the turn of an 
board - around a pot-sized bet, by our reckoning. Sorel Mizzi on the button made the call.
They saw a river - the 
- and Steinberg tanked for a while before betting out 15,000, just the slightest hint of a shake in his hand as he reached for the chips.
Mizzi was shaking too, but that was because of the extremely vigorous massage he was receiving. Eventually he called, but he looked ready to muck even before Steinberg showed him 
.
Mizzi - 36,500
Steinberg - 83,500
We got the the table with the flop of 
laid out between Phil Ivey and Erik Sagstrom. Ivey had bet 4,000 after Sagstrom checked to him and the Swede made the call.
The turn added the 
to the board and Sagstrom checked again. Ivey increased his bet size and made it 10,500. Sagstrom called to see the river, which was the 
. Sagstrom checked and Ivey fired out 20,000. Sagstrom tanked for about three full minutes with a stack of 50,700 behind. Eventually, he tossed in the call. Ivey immediately flipped over his 
and Sagstrom mucked.
Ivey now has a big lead of 89,300 to 30,700 over Sagstrom.
Erik Sagstrom still holds the lead versus Phil Ivey but the latter has just clawed some of those lost chips back. Sagstrom raised to 2,100 and then called Ivey' 6,200 three-bet. The flop came 
and Ivey check-raised Sagstrom's 5,500 bet up to 20,000. A quick fold from the Swede handed Ivey the pot.
Level: 12
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
A surprise pot has left Shannon Shorr on the rail when just moments ago he had around 40k and a hard-fought match with Marius Torbergsen. The winning hand, spotted as the chips, still stacked neatly, were being collected on one side of the table: 
. This was, on the river, a full house, although it looks as if the money went in earlier when it was two pair vs. a higher two pair in Shorr's hand! The river changed it all and shut down this match like someone flipped a painful light switch.
The many railers are just loving it, as Phil Hellmuth has now hit another downwards bit of his heads-up roller coaster.
He seemed to have bet just the minimum on the button on a 
flop before calling a raise to 2,200 from Ram Vaswani. Both players checked the turn, leading us to believe we might see another showdown - but the railers were to be disappointed as Vaswani led out for 2,000 on the 
river and Hellmuth folded.
Back down to 25,000 for Mr. Hellmuth.
Tom "durrrr" Dwan was facing a big uphill climb to get back into his heads-up match with Talal Shakerchi. Down around 20,000, Dwan raised the button with pocket tens, and Shakerchi moved all in with ace-eight. Dwan called to put himself at risk, and he would be unable to hold for the double.
The board ran 
, and that makes a come-from-behind straight for Shakerchi, sending Dwan to the rail.
A few minutes after Dwan's exit, Phil Ivey noticed something was amiss at the adjacent table, and he stood up for a second and craned his neck, scanning the room for his nosebleed pal. Dwan was long gone though, and Ivey seemed to smirk as he realized he'd won their last-longer bet.
We might have imagined the smirk, actually.
Yasuhiro Waki, who cashed in the £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event already here at the Empire Casino, and who appears to have made the trip from Japan just to compete in a selection of WSOPE events, has not fared so well at the start of this Round Two. He just lost a pot of over 50,000 to Kevin Eyster, with whom he'd built a pot of 22k by the turn: . At this point out bet big blind Eyster, 16,400, and after a bit of a pause Waki made the call. The river was the 
and Eyster checked, Waki checking behind and then mucking when he saw 
in his opponent's hand.
Less than two minutes later and the rest of the chips were Eyster's - he progresses to tomorrow's Round Three.
