Main Event Day 2 | 2010 PokerStars.com EPT London

10-01-2010 17:45 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Jamie Brown	460,000

Benny Spindler	390,000 80,000	80,000

	359,000 284,000	284,000
John Juanda	280,000 145,000	145,000

	220,000 130,000	130,000
Chance Kornuth	205,000 45,000	45,000
Kevin Stani	190,000 5,000	5,000

David Steicke	180,000 45,000	45,000
Shannon Shorr	180,000 110,000	110,000

Daniel Negreanu	176,000 1,300	1,300

Ben Vinson	165,000 175,000	175,000
Claire Renaut	150,000 7,000	7,000
Per Ummer	130,000 40,000	40,000
	75,000 30,000	30,000

Nik Persaud was contemplating a raise and a shove in front of him but decided to get it all-in with {J-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} and found himself up against {A-Hearts} {K-Spades} and {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} .

Persaud turned to Daniel Negreanu and said, "I'm feeling good about this, I'm going to hit."

As the cameras rushed in to watch, Persaud's gut-feeling was good, as the {J-Hearts} came out first followed by the rest of the {10-Clubs} {9-Clubs} {10-Spades} {3-Hearts} board.

Persaud won the main pot, trebling up to 220,000 while the kings took the small side pot as big slick slid on out of here.

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10-01-2010 17:55 UTC

Ivey Finds Aces

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Phil Ivey, yesterday. Looks much the same today.

Phil Ivey is back up to 175,000 after finding {a-Diamonds} {a-Spades} against a short stack's {7-Clubs} {7-Hearts} .

The sevens weren't lucky for the all-in player as the board came down a seven-free {4-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {4-Spades} {j-Hearts} {q-Spades} to eliminate him.

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10-01-2010 17:58 UTC

It Ainsworth a Thing if it Ain't Got That Downswing

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Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth started the day near the top of the chip counts but has now been crippled to just 40,000.

We didn't see what he had, but his opponent was holding {a-} {q-} on a {q-} {8-} {2-} {8-} {2-} board to do the damage.

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10-01-2010 18:08 UTC

JP Keeps Running Into Big Pairs

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JP Kelly has bumped into a big pair for the third time in the last hour, and no he's not in a plastic surgeon's office.

He had opened to 7,000 with Masa Kagawa making it 22,000 from the big blind. Kelly called the raise and the flop came out {9-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} {3-Hearts} .

Kagawa bet 27,000 and Kelly made the call to see a {4-Hearts} turn.

Kagawa now fired out like 80,000 with about 60,000 which had Kelly tanking before setting his opponent all-in. Kagawa instantly called with {A-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} to Kelly's {Q-Clubs} {Q-Diamonds} and held on the {10-Hearts} river.

Kagawa moved up to 350,000 while Kelly dropped to 150,000

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10-01-2010 18:14 UTC

Nearly Brown Trousers Time

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Jamie Brown had 3-bet preflop against Jack Ellwood and called the latter's 4-bet.

Ellwood fired out 35,000 on the {8-Hearts} {2-Clubs} {A-Diamonds} flop which Brown called before Ellwood (who had recently come 5th in the WCOOP Main Event) pushed all-in on the {10-Hearts} turn. Brown tanked for a minute or two before making the call with {K-Clubs} {K-Diamonds} - this was the worst hand Ellwood could see since he was holding {Q-Spades} {J-Diamonds} . The river was the {4-Clubs} and Brown's kings held to push him up to 460,000.

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10-01-2010 18:24 UTC

Raymer of Sunshine for Charder

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Christian Harder picked up {k-Clubs} {k-Spades} to double up through Greg Raymer's {9-Diamonds} {9-Spades} . From Joe Hachem's cries of, "Awww! It all goes in on the flop" on the flop, the players at the table surmised that he would have flopped a flush draw.