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$5,500 Aruba Poker Classic Championship
Day 2 Completed
2009 Aruba Poker Classic
$5,500 Aruba Poker Classic Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 Aruba Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,303,750
Total Entries
475
Level
26
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 475
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One might think 250,000 chips is plenty enough to claim the chip lead at the end of the second day, but Robert Mizrachi crushed that number after bagging up a whopping 353,200. MIzrachi stayed in control of his table throughout the entire day, winning almost every pot he played. The biggest confrontation he was involved in came when he rivered a wheel against Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin in a 130,000-chip pot.
Defending champion Matt Brady is still standing as well. Brady came in towards the bottom of the pack and had a roller coaster day, but was never able to get above 45,000. He finished the day with about 35,000 chips.
Despite losing half his chip stack on the final hand of the night, Gavin Smith finished with just under 50,000 chips. James Honeybone had a turn the other way towards the end of the night when a miracle five on the river was able to keep him alive. Phil Hellmuth, Brock Parker and Matt Vengrin are all moving on to tomorrow as well.
After five levels of play today, 86 players remain. Play will resume tomorrow at 12:00pm local time and conclude once the field is narrowed to 36 players. We'll see you all then right here on PokerNews.com for all the live updates from the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic.
) in his hand and doubled to over 60,000.
holding 
. He now has about 80,000 chips while Stewart dropped to 40,000.On an adjacent table, Jeffrey Vanchiro just had a river bluff picked off by his opponent. The board was
when Vanchiro tried to win the pot with a bet of 20,000 into a 30,000-chip pot, but couldn't get his opponent to lay down 
. Vanchiro announced that he only held ten high.
It was a race situation with Sharp taking slightly the worst of it holding
to his opponent's 
.The board ran out
to give Sharp the double up. He now has around 65,000 chips.
. Honeybone waited for the wrong time it seemed like when he showed 
.The board ran out
and just as Honeybone was about to shoot to the rail, he was saved. he's back up to 33,000 now.
"Just been building it up slowly." Vanchiro said. "Let's see if I can dust it off in the next 50 minutes or so." he then joked.
. Clark led out with a bet of 9,000, and the original raiser made the call. West ducked out of the way, and it went heads up to the turn.The dealer placed the
on the board, and both players checked. The completed the community cards, and Clark fired out a small bet of 8,500. After some deliberation, his opponent folded out, sending a nice pot over to CrazyZachary.He's up to about 80,000 after that exchange.
According to Scott "yaboystu" Stewart, Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin bet 16,500 on the river with the board reading
. Mizrachi then raised to 56,500. Baldwin tanked for some time before making the call.Mizrachi tabled
for the wheel and all Baldwin could do was muck his hand and say, "I'm so sick." He's down to about 55,000 while Mizrachi soars up to 355,000. He is by far and away the chip leader.
