Lodge Doubles Through Mrakes
While the early stages of Day 2 proved to be very profitable for Michal Mrakes, the start-of-day chip leader just experienced a setback, but remains near the top of the counts.
Mrakes had raised and picked up two callers in Jaroslaw Sikora in the cutoff and Harry Lodge out of the big blind. The flop of 
flop was checked to Sikora, who bet 3,500. Lodge called that and Mrakes check-raised to 11,500. Sikora folded and Lodge called.
On the 
turn, Lodge checked and called the shove of Mrakes for his last 33,000.
Harry Lodge: 
Michal Mrakes: 
The 
on the river was already a formality, as Lodge had the unbeatable flush and the Brit doubled. This summer, Lodge scored his best result thus far at the World Series of Poker when he finished 3rd in the Crazy Eights Event for a payday of $344,888.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
217,000 | -43,000 |
|
115,000 | 47,200 |
|
70,000 | -37,700 |