2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
108
Prize
$750,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$4,700
Entries
716
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event

Day 2 Completed

Day 2 Complete

Jordan Morgan - Chip Leader
Jordan Morgan - Chip Leader
We started the day with 443 players. More than 300 made their exit and roughly 20 players remain until the bubble breaks. Jordan Morgan is the chip leader, bagging up 705,100 in chips. His closest competitor appears to be Firas Massouh with 570,600.

Vanessa Selbst and Ryan D'Angelo both had solid days as well, finishing with 542,600 and 450,800, respectively. Phil Ivey also quietly built a stack, ending the day with 356,600.

Also making it through were Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Rousso, Dennis Phillips and Marcello Del Grosso. Fellow Pros Daniel Negreanu, Gavin Griffin and Angel Guillen were not as fortunate, failing to survive the day.

An unofficial 125 players remain and will return tomorrow. We'll be right back here to continue our coverage noon EST so be sure to return then.

A Bad Day's End for Suied

Suied counting out his stack.
Suied counting out his stack.
Just after he doubled with jacks versus {A-?}{Q-?}, Danny Suied was all in again. He raised before Roland Isra moved all in. Suied called off and rolled over two jacks again. Isra held a better pair though with pocket aces. There was no help for Suied after the flop, turn and river, leaving him with just over 20,000 chips.

Moments later, Suied jammed his last 20,900 in the middle and was called by Max Greenwood. Suied held the {3-Diamonds}{3-Spades}, but was crushed by Greenwood's {K-Spades}{K-Hearts}.

After a board of {10-Spades}{7-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{7-Clubs}, that was all she wrote for Suied and he packed up his belongings before exiting the tournament room, unable to make it to the bag-and-tag portion of the night. Greenwood shot up to about 200,000 chips.

Tags: Danny SuiedMax GreenwoodRoland Isra

Suied Doubles

Danny Suied was all in preflop for his last 32,900 holding the {J-Clubs}{J-Hearts}. He was up against an opponent holding the {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}.

The board ran out {4-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{K-Spades} and Suied was able to fade his opponent's outs and double up.

Tags: Danny Suied

Four More Hands

The clock has been paused with ten minutes to go in the day. Dealers will deal four more hands at each table and then the survivors will bag their chips.

More Chips for Ivey

Mr. Ivey
Mr. Ivey
Paul Wasicka was under the gun and raised to 7,500. Action folded all the way around to Phil Ivey in the big blind and he tossed in the casual call. The flop came down {9-Hearts}{6-Spades}{6-Diamonds} and Ivey checked. Wasicka fired 6,500 and Ivey called.

Fourth street added the {J-Hearts} to the board. Ivey checked and then Wasicka checked behind.

The river was the {3-Diamonds} and Ivey fired 15,000. Wasicka called. Ivey tabled the {Q-Spades}{9-Spades} and it was good enough to move him up to 335,000 chips. Wasicka dropped to 135,000.

Tags: Paul WasickaPhil Ivey

Williams Giving Rousso Fits

David Williams is seated to Vanessa Rousso's immediate left and is using his position to handcuff her. She opened a pot to 7,400 from the cutoff but the aggressive Williams three-bet to 19,400. That re-raise cleared the blinds out of the hand.

Rousso called to a {J-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} {3-Clubs} flop. She checked and then folded when Williams bet 16,000 chips. That loss pushed Rousso back down to about 100,000 chips.

Tags: David WilliamsVanessa Rousso

Another Double For Rousso

We caught the action on the {A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} flop. Vanessa Rousso was faced with a decision of calling 18,000 from her opponent.

She opted to do so and the {J-Hearts} followed on the turn. Her opponent bet 29,000, nearly covering Rousso's remaining stack. She spent a while considering her options and settled on moving all in for a little bit more. Her opponent called and tabled {A-Clubs}{9-Clubs}, leading Rousso's {Q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}.

Alas, the {K-Hearts} hit the river and Rousso made a straight to double to about 120,000.

Tags: Vaneesa Rousso

Free Money for Efro

Trust us, Efro was happier than he looks.
Trust us, Efro was happier than he looks.
Interesting hand. A cautionary tale, perhaps. The button raised, and Eric Froehlich defended his big blind.

Flop: {K-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {6-?} - Efro checked, and the button checked behind.

Turn: {K-?} - Froehlich checked again, then called the button's 15,000 bet.

River: {10-?} - Froehlich took a 19,800 stab at the pot. His opponent tank, eventually making the call. "Nice call, I missed," Efro said, tabling {J-Hearts} {9-Hearts}. The button threw his hand away after seeing Froehlich's. Odd that he couldn't beat jack-high. Turns out that he had rivered a ten but mucked the winning hand because he thought Efro had said he'd made a straight. There's a nice 80,000-chip present for Efro, who is up to 235,000.

Tags: EfroEric Froehlich

What's the Count?

Floor decisions always provide an extra bit of excitement to the poker action -- and generally spark a great deal of discussion from players.

Here at Mohegan Sun (according to a floor summoned to a table after a hand), the house rule is that a player involved in a hand is entitled to an exact count of his opponent's chips if he requests it. This prompted some debate as to how the count is to be delivered: whether the dealer is required to count down the stack, whether the player is required to count down the stack, or some other method.

One player argued that he should not be required to do anything than show all of his chips to his opponent so that his opponent could eyeball them for himself. His theory was that counting chips is a skill required for live poker.

Most other players at the table disagreed, but the specific issue of how the count was to be delivered (if requested) was never explicitly resolved.

"You could ask every floor in here and get a different answer from each of them," said another player at the table.