In what was a fairly substantial pot, Josh Ewing got his money in with pocket kings against two players, both of whom he had covered. One of them held ace-ten while the other held pocket nines.
The flop came out ten-high to give a bit of a sweat, but the rest of the board was blank to send two players off to the cashier. Evans has thusly earned himself the first double knockout we've seen this weekend, and it propels him all the way up into the realm of the chip leaders with 430,000.
Jose Nadal got the last 46,000 of his chips into the middle preflop with , and he was an underdog to stay alive when Humberto Brenes looked him up with the superior . The board ran out favorably for his two live cards, though, coming (bink!) to lock up his double.
Brenes was less than pleased with the result, and he's been whittled down to about 50,000 as he drops that pot.
Action folded to Victor Silva Talamini and he raised all in for 107,000. In the next seat was Vitor Torres and he took a minute before announcing a call. Everyone else folded and the cards were on their backs.
Talamini:
Torres:
The flop came down and Torres began to celebrate hitting the jack. He then realized Talamini still had a straight draw.
The turn ended things when the fell to pair the board and give Torres and unbeatable full house. The river completed the board with the .
With the elimination of Talamini, the field moved to 24 players and play has ended for the night. There will be a recap coming shortly.
Day 2 is in the books here at the 2012 PokerStars.netLatin American Poker Tour Grand Final in São Paulo, Brazil. The day ended just about 30 minutes after the dinner break following a flurry of eliminations. At the end of it all, just 24 players remained and Caio Cesar Pimenta was on top with 607,000 in chips.
The day belonged mainly to Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu as he seemed to steal the show. He entered the day as one of the larger stacks in the room and went right to work, quickly moving up the ranks and finding himself in the top spot with a good-sized lead over the rest of the group.
Negreanu played numerous big hands today, including a massive 500,000-chip clash against Patrick Mahoney that sent Mahoney to the rail in 39th place. Although that big hand put Negreanu up to about 625,000 in chips, he lost a bit back before bagging up 398,000. That's still plenty healthy moving into Sunday as the average sits just over 300,000.
Fellow Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes lost a key all-in pot right near the end of the night and it caused him to finish on just 51,000. Still, last year's 15th-place finisher from LAPT São Paulo is alive and looking to get those chips back.
Speaking of tomorrow, Day 3 will commence at noon local time. The remaining players will be competing for a spot at the eight-handed final table and a shot at the R$324,600 first-place prize. Right now, everyone remaining has locked up no less than R$9,220.
PokerNews will be on hand for all of the action tomorrow and we hope you can join us.
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, and he was an underdog to stay alive when Humberto Brenes looked him up with the superior 
. The board ran out favorably for his two live cards, though, coming 
(bink!) 
to lock up his double.
and Torres began to celebrate hitting the jack. He then realized Talamini still had a straight draw.
