Vincent Procopio shared the story behind his bustout hand, and it was painful. His opponent raised to about 7,000, Procopio reraised to 21,000, and his opponent was thinking about laying it down. Procopio said, "You don't have to fold, but if you're playing, you might as well push, because all the chips are going in eventually."
His opponent moved all in with A-K offsuit, and Procopio called with . It was a likely chop situation, but two diamonds flopped, and two more on the turn and the river gave Procopio's opponent a flush.
Just like that, Procopio's WPT World Championship came to an end.
The final table in the Bellagio Poker Room has just broken. All of the remaining players are now in the Fontana Room, which means despite what the tournament board says, we are down to 240 players and BJ has won yet another prop bet.
Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul raised to 6,000. Another player behind re-raised forcing Saul all-in. Saul called and turned over TT against his opponent's AQ. The board was a blank for both players and Saul doubled up to 63,000.
Three players see the flop of . The lead player with a monster stack moves all-in and both, repeat both of the other players lay down their hands. Because they did not release their hands they were able to show and. The winning hand was mucked with a big sigh of relief.
With less than an hour to go on Day Two there is quite a bit of laughter coming from several tables. At the same time, calls for the floor are up at other tables, where several disagreements have surfaced. There have been several calls for the clock and in general the players are either getting a bit weary or just a bit loopy.
Huck Seed went to battle with Jamie Gold in a hand between two WSOP Champions. Seed pushed with K-J while Gold called with A-Q. When it was all over, Huck Seed headed to the rail as Gold stacked up all of his chips.