Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2010 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Palace
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 WSOP Circuit - Caesars Palace
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,150
Entries
150
Level
21
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 150
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It was a long day in the Caesars Palace tournament room. Players originally expected that this would be a four-day tournament but were told upon arriving today for Day 2 that one day had been trimmed from the schedule. The 66 Day 2 starters would need to play all the way down to a final table of 10.
Andrew Lichtenberger got a big boost in the middle of the day by taking out Layne Flack, who had been absolutely crushing his opposition to that point in the tournament. Lichtenberger flopped sixes full of jacks against Flack's three jacks, a hand that Flack ulimately couldn't get away from.
Dan Casetta, the Day 1 chip leader, also had a good day, continuing to chip up throughout the day without ever being in any serious trouble.
When play resumes at 2pm tomorrow, the players will be in the following seats:
Seat 1: Matt Stout (270,000)
Seat 2: Diego Sanchez (472,000)
Seat 3: Andrew Lichtenberger (348,000)
Seat 4: Aaron Been (198,000)
Seat 5: Thu Nguyen (157,000)
Seat 6: James Carroll (575,000)
Seat 7: Steve O'Dwyer (644,000)
Seat 8: Brock Parker (465,000)
Seat 9: Anthony Yeh (101,000)
Seat 10: Dan Casetta (489,000)
Join us then for what should prove to be an exciting conclusion to this championship event.
Until then, you can find us at the bar.
against Stout's 
. The flop came queen-high, 
. DeMaci was left with a few different cards to hit, but the board bricked 
and 
to send hm to the payout table one place shy off the final table.
board, they went into O'Dwyer's stack and Burkholder was headed to the payout table.
Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Andrew Lichtenberger just spent five minutes tanking on the river against stev O'Dwyer, by far the longest tank we've seen to this point in the tournament. Lichtenberger started by limping his small blind pre-flop. O'Dwyer raised to 21,000 and Lichtenberger called.
Lichtenberger then took a very passive line on every street, check-calling 33,000 on the flop, check-calling another 72,000 on the turn and then checking the river. There, with a board of 
, O'Dwyer moved all in. Lichtenberger was in the tank a solid five minutes before finally folding his hand.
"It would be very +EV if you showed a bluff right now," Andrew Been said to O'Dwyer as O'Dwyer collected the pot.
"It *would* be," agreed Lichtenberger. "I'd be out in ten minutes." O'Dwyer didn't respond.
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Steve O'Dwyer had this to say on his latest Tweet about the structure:
"this mtt has the silliest structure ever, @AllenKessler would not approve, and neither do I. I have 410k at 3k-6k 500. 15 left."
Whether or not Kessler would approve doesn't matter here as we trek onward into the night in pursuit of a final table.
The board ran out
and that was the end of the line for Roper. He finished in 13th place and earned himself $14,350. Roper took down the title in the WSOP Circuit Main Event that was held in St. Louis, Missouri a couple weeks ago for over $170,000. Not a bad back-to-back run.
