Dan O'Brien has skyrocketed up the counts to about 350,000. How did he get so many chips so fast?
"Just playing a lot of hands," he said. "And winning most of them."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
350,000 | 142,000 |
We found Robert Panitch calling an all-in shove from an opponent on a flop of 
.
Panitch: 
Opponent: 
"Uncle Krunk" found himself miles behind with only two outs, but one materialized immediately on the 
turn. A 
river completed the board, and Panitch clapped before stacking his opponent's chips.
"You take some chances, sometimes you make 'em," Panitch said after Filippi commented about the unlikeliness of the win. "It coulda been a flush draw."
"It was a flush draw," Filippi said with a laugh.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
207,000 | 66,800 |
Time for another 15-minute break.
Players love to use Twitter to help friends and family track their progress, and when the last of their chips are lost a rundown is usually offered up to followers.
Here are a few players recently eliminated who told the world via tweet:
Grinded a few levels got the last of the chips in aqcc vs 77 and I'm out. Excited to go home and see the fam..Follow @paulgees81
Shoved 10bb with 22 and ran into JVA's 55, which inspired me to do a JVA. Next up is @SemCasinoCoCoFollow @DarryllFish
With the second break of the day quickly approaching, we thought you'd like to know that just 396 players are still in contention for this Borgata Winter Poker Open WPT Main Event Championship.
In many of the lively home games played on kitchen tables across America, players liven up the game by awarding a bounty to anyone who wins a pot after tabling deuce-seven. A one dollar chip or a free beer are the usual prizes pocketed for dragging a pot with the 
, but for K.C. Nam, a 110,000 chip pot and a chance at a life-changing six-figure score.
After an opponent opened for 2,600, Nam looked down to find the 
in the hole. A holding that would ordinarily be mucked without a second thought was a weapon to be wielded for Nam, and rather than folding he three-bet to 7,600. His opponent flatted the reraise and the flop fell 
to give Nam bottom pair, bottom kicker.
Nam then led into his opponent for a 15,000 wager, and after the other player called the turn card came to pair the board and bring flush possibilities to bear.
Reading his opponent for a drawing hand, Nam went with his instinct and shoved all in for about 38,000, with his opponent rising from his chair to make the call. Nam was covered by his opponent's stack, so this all-in move was made with his tournament life on the line.
When the other player tabled 
, Nam discovered his read to be spot on, but he was still fading nearly half of the deck considering his opponent's array of outs. Any eight or nine would hit his overcards, any ten filled in the gutshot straight, any jack would double-pair the board to counterfeit Nam's pair of sevens, and of course a spade on the river would flush Nam's chances away. With many players at the table now standing in awe to await the river card's arrival, the dealer burned and turned.
River: 
"What is going on here?" asked one of Nam's tablemates as the river bricked off. "What just happened here?"
Nam's response to the sight of a safe river card was a pump of the fist and a quick "yes!" to congratulate himself. The other player took the loss like a pro and never said a word about playing the worst hand in poker, while Nam quietly stacked his new chips to put himself in strong position midway through the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
114,000 | 114,000 |
Laz Hernandez, who notched the overall chip lead coming into Day 2, hasn't slowed down much, if at all, in his efforts to accumulate chips. In a recent hand we witnessed, he busted an opponent who held 
when Hernandez's 
held up all in before the flop.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
325,000 | 325,000 |
Matt Haugen bet 4,000 after an opponent checked to him on a flop of 
. The player, who was in the small blind, check-raised to 10,000. Haugen made the call, and the small blind pushed all in for about 36,000 on the 
turn. Haugen once again called, this time after thinking for a few minutes.
Haugen: 
Small blind: 
The small blind had been purely speculating on the flop, but turned a diamond flush draw and decided to try to force Haugen out. Unfortunately for him, Haugen wasn't folding his overpair, and a river meant Haugen got all of his opponent's chips.
Haugen has cleared the 400,000 mark, and he appears to be the chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
411,000 | 227,000 |
Here is the latest round of updated counts from around the room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
240,000 | 205,300 |
|
235,000 | 235,000 |
|
130,000 | 79,775 |
|
121,000 | 18,500 |
|
|
120,000 | 120,000 |
|
76,000 | 36,250 |
|
64,000 | 64,000 |
|
47,000 | 16,875 |
|
46,000 | -12,350 |
|
43,000 | -11,000 |
|
40,000 | 40,000 |
|
39,000 | -11,625 |
|
38,000 | 16,700 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Andrew Kelsall checked the turn with the board reading 
, and Chris Reslock fired 8,000. Kelsall raised to 22,500, and Reslock quickly made the call. The two took in a river of 
, and Reslock watched his opponent fire 44,000. Reslock went into the tank for about three minutes, and he finally decided to make the call.
"Nice hand," Kelsall said. Reslock revealed 
, and Kelsall slid his cards to the dealer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
193,000 | 142,150 |
|
170,000 | -140,000 |
