John Auville has chipped up in impressive fashion this morning moving to 170,000 in chips with the majority of those coming when he cracked pocket aces with queens. A queen would flop to give Auville a massive double up and he's won a few more pots since then to move his stack to where it currently sits.
"Guess I haven't used up all my run good," smiled Auville.
Todd Boghosian opened for 4,500 and Matt Menes on the button made it 9,500 to go. Boghosian called and would check to Menes on the flop.
Menes grabbed two yellow T5,000 chips and tossed them into the middle. Boghosian countered by tossing out two of his own T5,000 chips while announcing all in. Menes quickly folded leaving himself with just 21,500 while Boghosian is close to where he started the day with 65,000 in chips.
Ryan Franklin opened for a raise and one spot to his left, Pamela Wilson moved all in for slightly more than 30,000. Michael Baize made the call and it was folded back to Franklin who let go of his hand. Wilson turned over and Baize .
Wilson would quickly move into the lead on the flop and would retain the lead on the turn. The river was the to secure the much needed double up for Wilson.
We didn't catch the pre-flop action but there were three players all in and it was Jon Ferraro holding the biggest stack and the best hand with against the respective that both Roni Grenfell and John Carlson held. The flop came leading Mark Kroon to say "that's a good flop for your hand" and it would hold as the turn and river came to give Ferraro the double elimination.
Welcome back for PokerNews' Day 2 live coverage of the 2014 PPC Aruba World Championship Main Event. There were a total of 138 entries and 52 players are returning today with eyes on the Main Event trophy and first place money. Steve Karp enters the day with 152,700 and the chip lead and is followed closely by Jeff Hartwick who has a stack of 148,500.
The 2012 Champion of this event and third place finisher last year, Joe Serock, comes in to play today with 76,100 in chips. Sitting at his table is last year's runner up and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Joe Ebanks who enters play with a big stack of 112,600. Other notables joining in on the Day 2 action include Chris Bolek, Mark Kroon, John Ott, Nick Mann, Jesse Chinni, Josh Kay, John Auville, and Ryan Franklin.
First place will collect $72,163 and the top 15 finishers will make the money so there is some time left before we hit the money bubble. The tentative plan is to play 12 levels today but that can change depending on circumstances and is at the discretion of the PPC tournament staff.
Play will be getting underway in approximately 15 minutes at 1 p.m. local time. PokerNews will be here until the very end providing you all of the exciting poker action here in beautiful Aruba.
There were 138 entries creating a total prize pool of $267,720. The top 15 places will make the money with first place collecting $72,163. In addition the top two places will receive $5,000 packages to the 2015 PPC Aruba World Championship.