The Milkybarkid, Ben Grundy, got most of his chips in as a big favourite pre-flop with versus but the hit the board to leave him short. He got the rest in with against but was unable to hit the three-outer himself to avoid elimination.
Moments ago, Philip Hardy was eliminated from the tournament after running his pocket kings into the pocket aces of Ian "Crapper" Cox.
The hand lifted Cox towards the head of the field, with right around 100,000 in chips.
Cox is on quite a roll as of late, having reached the final table in each of the last three live events he's played, most notably posting an 8th place finish at the EPT London in September.
Ian Cox has busted a player during the first level with pocket Kings on a Jack high flop. His ooponent got all his chips in with pocket tens and failed to hit putting Ian up to 64,000.
Ben Grundy managed to get a double up with the bullets. He called a raise pre-flop and pushed a flop and got a caller from a player with . he now has 19,000.
The tournament clock has been paused while the dealers race off the $25 chips from the table. There are currently 98 players remaining and the average chip stack is 33,800.
The first level of play produced 24 eliminations, which amounts to 20% of the Day 2 starting field.
Annette Obrestad threw a couple of power punches in a hand against Lars-Ola Svensson, on a board showing . She bet 4,300 on the flop and Svensson called. The turn brought the and Annette decisively shoved the remainder of her stack into the middle.
"Ok, I gamble. I call," said Svensson. Annette revealed for top and bottom pair, which made Svensson smile as he tabled .
In the midst of a pot that was shaping up to be a pre-flop all in fest, Michiel Brummelhuis saved us the drama, folding pocket queens face-up facing Jonothon Butters' all in reraise.
The hand saw Michael Martin make it 1,800 to go and Thor Hansen made the call. Action then fell on Brummelhuis, who reraised it to 8,000. The small blind folded, making Butters the next to act from the big blind. After some considerable though, he moved all in over the top of Brummelhuis' raise. Both Martin and Hansen folded, leaving Brummelhuis Butters' lone opponent.
"I should've pushed . . . " said Brummelhuis, as he tossed his queens face-up into the muck.