Yonghui Jiang is holding court on Table 2, where he has amassed more than one million chips.
Gintautas Putinas was relocated to the empty seat on Jiang's right and promptly handed over some more chips to the big stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,060,000 |
Level: 20
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Joseph Andino is cruising on Table 11, up to more than 1.1 million and the new chip leader.
Mark Gavrilov is on his right in a tough spot, but still managed to get some chips. His 
was good against a shorter stack's 
and Gavrilov is up to ~270,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,100,000 | 346,000 |
|
270,000 | 173,000 |
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Busted |
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Players are back from their first break of the day and with the money now locked up, they're settling in for a long play-down day.
Here are the big stacks and some other random chip counts, as of the break:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
880,000 | 591,000 |
|
865,000 | 835,000 |
|
860,000 | 690,000 |
|
810,000 | 271,000 |
|
|
754,000 | 503,000 |
|
657,000 | 57,000 |
|
640,000 | 156,000 |
|
|
550,000 | 550,000 |
|
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530,000 | 242,000 |
|
460,000 | 320,000 |
|
455,000 | -5,000 |
|
445,000 | 445,000 |
|
|
430,000 | 64,000 |
|
400,000 | 83,000 |
|
320,000 | 233,000 |
|
|
300,000 | 300,000 |
|
300,000 | 65,000 |
|
260,000 | 160,000 |
|
245,000 | 245,000 |
|
218,000 | 218,000 |
|
140,000 | 75,000 |
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
|
97,000 | -153,000 |
|
85,000 | -69,000 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
After a handful of hand-for-hand hands, the money bubble has burst and play has resumed at normal speed.
One of the bubble hands came down to a blind vs. blind encounter with Al Riccobono (sb) shoving into Christian Harder (bb) who was the short-stack. Harder folded and survived the bubble with about 65,000 (8 big blinds). He's locked up a cash of at least $1,105.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,000 |
The player count is dropping quickly, rapidly approaching the money bubble. These are just some of the players who have reported to the rail in early Day 2 action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted |
Three players on Table 15 were looking at a flop of 
and Al Riccobono (bb) moved all-in for 120,000. Jon Borenstein flatted, then Doug Shirk jammed over the top, forcing Borenstein to fold and successfully isolating the shorter stack.
As it turned out, Riccobono was ahead with 
for the flush draw with King-high. Shirk had 
for a lesser flush draw.
The 
appeared on the turn, completing the flush and shipping the pot to Riccobono, who tripled up to ~400,000. Shirk was left with about 200,000 (after surrendering on a subsequent hand).
As if this table wasn't already hard enough, Greg Fishberg got moved into LJ Sande's old seat. He was all-in for ~200,000 and got no takers, picking up some dead money, blinds and antes, and is up to ~260,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
400,000 | |
|
260,000 | |
|
|
235,000 | -85,000 |
|
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200,000 | -85,000 |
|
|
76,000 |
John Hinds moved his last 60,000 across the line, first to act from the middle. Only the big blind looked him up, tabling 
. Hinds' 
needed help for him to survive.
The board didn't even bring a sweat as it ran out 
and the pot was shipped to the big blind. Hinds headed for the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |