From the hijack, Tom Grigg came in raising to 3,400, and Jason Mercier three-bet small to 6,100 total. Grigg shoved in on him with 
, and Mercier called off the rest of his short stack with Big Slick, 
.
The flop came 
, a swing and a miss for Mercier, and he'd not be able to catch up to Grigg's snowmen. The 
and 
filled out the board, and it's sent Mercier to the exit here in the middle of Day 2.
JC Tran has been nursing his short stack for a long while now, and he's finally found a double to claw back into the mix. It looked like Tran was on the button when he got the last 20,700 of his chips into the middle preflop with 
. His next-door neighbor figured 
was good enough to go with, and his chips put Tran five cards from the double.
The 
flop was just what Dr. Tran ordered, but the turn did give him a little sweat. He needed to fade the four-outer, and the river 
was safe enough.
Tran's back up around 45,000 chips now, just a double away from the chip average.
We came to James Dempsey's table with a board showing 
and Demspey in a hand against JC Tran. There was over 20,000 in the pot at this point and Dempsey flung out 6,000. Tran made the call and then tapped the table as he sent his cards into the muck when Demspey turned over his 
.
Just before the break, action folded to Joey Lawrence in the cutoff and he raised to 4,000, which Dominykas Karmazinas three-bet to 10,900 from the big blind. Not to be outdone, Lawrence pushed back with a four-bet to 18,000, which was enough to take down the pot.
It wasn't much, but a good excuse to update you on their stacks.
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Level: 10
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Players are now on another 15-minute break.
"I busted the Great Dane," Tony G told us with his chest puffed out wide. "Gus always wants to move in, and I trapped him!"
Aage Ravn opened with a raise to 2,500 from middle position, and Tony G looked down at in the small blind. He decided to flat, and that sent the action over to Hansen's big blind. He had , and the squeeze was on. He made it 10,000 total, Ravn folded, Tony G reraised all in, and Hansen called off the rest of his short stack.
The board ran out blank for Gus, and his Main Event has ended almost before it began.
Joey Lawrence was just involved in a three-way all in, with his 
coming up against an unkown opponent's 
and Manig Loeser's 
.
All the chips were in preflop and when the board ran out 
, Lawrence took down the pot, while Loeser eliminated the unknown player.
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