After getting crushed down to just 5,000 in chips, Chance Kornuth was all in preflop for the last of his money with pocket kings. He was up against Scott Seiver with pocket fours.
The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Kornuth nearly tripled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
14,000 | 9,000 |
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Our access to the featured table is very limited, so the details for this hand are unfortunately sparse.
What we do know is that Daniel Negreanu got it all in for 360,000 on the turn of a board that looked from afar to read 
. Chance Kornuth had Kid Poker just barely covered, and he looked Negreanu up with 
. Negreanu's 
was the stone-cold nuts, though, and Kornuth was drawing dead to the river 
.
Negreanu has found his big double, moving up into the mix of the chip leaders with about 800,000. Kornuth, on the other hand, is left with just 5,000 lonely chips with which to try and mount a comeback.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000 | 454,000 |
|
|
5,000 | -439,000 |
We just heard Daniel Negreanu pipe up from the featured table with a remarkable observation.
"You know," he began with his dead-panned tongue in cheek. "These tables are pretty tough. This isn't an easy tournament. There are some good players left."
Under the gun, Sam Stein made it 13,000 to go, and he found calls from both Yevgeniy Timoshenko (button) and Jonathan Duhamel (small blind) to go three ways to the flop.
It came 
, and the action checked to Timoshenko. He settled on a bet of 19,000, folding Duhamel without incident. Stein check-raised, though, and the resulting action left Timoshenko all in for 148,000 total.
Showdown
Stein: 
Timoshenko: 
It was a cooler of a flop, and Timoshenko needed to fade just two outs to double. The turn and river 
were blanks, and Stein has been forced to pay off a double. He'd been doing some good work early on to chip up above his start-of-day stack, but that run-in with Yev has knocked him right back down there again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
375,000 | 201,000 |
|
320,000 | -24,000 |
From under the gun, last year's PCA Main Event champion Galen Hall raised to 12,000. Play then folded around to the blinds where two Team PokerStars Pros got involved; Viktor Blom from the small blind and Jason Mercier from the big blind. Blom reraised to 33,000 and then Mercier four-bet to 66,000. At this point, Hall ducked out of the way. Blom made the call.
The flop came down 
and Blom checked. Mercier bet 36,000 and Blom called.
After the 
paired the board on the turn and both players checked, the 
landed on the river. Blom fired a hefty bet of 184,000 and Mercier tanked. He tanked for about a minute and then folded his hand, allowing Blom to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
920,000 | 170,000 |
|
440,000 | -74,000 |
2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel opened to 12,000 from under the gun, and the action folded to David "Doc" Sands who moved all in for 72,000 on the button. The action folded back to Duhamel, who called.
Showdown
Duhamel: 
Sands: 
The board ran 
, and Sands doubled to more than 150,000 chips.
"You grinded the short stack well," Will Molson told Sands.
"Thanks," Sands responded. Then he noticed there was a boom mic hanging in front of his face. "I learned it on the internet, at PokerStars dot net."
Cheesy, but a double nonetheless.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
480,000 | -249,000 |
|
155,000 | 108,000 |
Scott Seiver raised the button to 13,000, and Erik Seidel called from the big blind. The two of them took a 
flop, and Seidel check-called a bet of 25,000.
The made things interesting on fourth street, and now Seidel led out with a bet of 40,000. Seiver peered up at Seidel from under his eyebrows, taking pause for a minute or so before calling the bet.
The 
river scared Seidel enough to check it over once again, and Seiver took his cue to make the bet of 60,000. Now it was Seidel who flashed a pensive look for a bit, and he gazed down at the board for a while before surrendering his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
675,000 | -78,000 |
|
425,000 | 60,000 |
From under the gun, Jonathan Duhamel raised to 12,000. Sam Stein made the call and the flop produced the 
. Duhamel continued with a bet of 18,000 and Stein called.
The turn was the 
and Duhamel opted to slow things down with a check. Stein fired 37,000 and Duhamel called to see the river.
The last board card was the , prompting another check from Duhamel. Stein bet 106,000. Duhamel made the call, but when Stein turned up the 
for bottom set, he cards went straight into the muck.
First into the pot from the cutoff, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom raised to 13,000, and Isaac Haxton defended his big blind with a call to go heads up.
The flop brought 
and a continuation bet of 22,000 from Blom. Haxton check-called that bet and another 46,000 behind the 
turn. That led them to the 
river, and the two men were content to check it down.
Blom showed his 
miss first, and Haxton tabled 
with a set of deuces to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,310,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
750,000 | -125,000 |
Our old pal Robbie Thompson has taken the mic to cue the start of Day 2. With a warm welcome to the spectators assembled, he announced that we'll be playing to reach the final table of eight today.
With the small blind 3,000 and the large blind 6,000, the cards are in the air, and Day 2 is off and running.
About 36 hours from now, one of these 18 men will become 2012's first poker millionaire with a top prize of more than $1.25 million on the line. Not to mention the shiny gold Super High Roller trophy and a bejeweled Shamballa bracelet worth more than $20,000.
