Min Jae Park is at it again, this time we caught up with the action on the flop after a big pot had already been formed.
His opponent bet out 25,000 from the small blind on the flop of and Park called. The turn didn’t slow down his opponent who bet out 35,000 to which Park again called. The river paired the board with the . After a lot of thought the small blind checked and Park instantly reached for enough chips to put his opponent all in and placed them in the middle.
Again a lot of thought was had by his opponent before eventually he made a fold. Park has now moved up to over 400,000.
Canadian pro Xuan Liu has had a bit of a roller coaster day at the felt, but has now steadied out at around 200,000 as we head towards the money. We recently watched Liu scoop a pot against one opponent on a board. There were already plenty of chips in the pot by the time we arrived at the table on the river to find Liu checking to her lone opponent. The player bet out 23,500 and Liu thought for quite a while before making the call. At showdown, Liu's trumped .
As we approach the bubble in the final level of the day, you get the feeling it might take a couple of coolers to burst the bubble this evening. Well, we just saw a huge cooler with three players finding monster hands at the same time.
We arrived to see all the chips in the middle preflop and the cards on their backs – it was pocket jacks vs pocket queens vs pocket kings.
The player with kings had both opponents covered but the roars went up when a queen appeared in the window on the board of .
The queens belonged to Manu Austin who is now up to a very healthy 290,000, as one player was crippled and the other eliminated.
There are now 56 players remaining with just around 25 minutes left on Day 2. That means we need to lose two more players before reaching the money. There is a real chance that wont happen either, especially considering the staff at The Star just informed the players that the clock would be paused with 15 minutes remaining and there would be three more hands from there.
During hand-for-hand play, Brendon Ruse held and got his stack of 116,000 in preflop against big-stack Michael Kanaan with . The board ran out a safe and Ruse gave a little fist pump as he survived to double on the bubble.