Troy Reed found his way to a double up in a cooler of a hand just moments ago.
There really wasn't much action until the river when his opponent bet 4k on a board reading 
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Reed promptly shoved and his heads-up opponent tanked for a long while before calling off his entire stack holding a full house.
However, his 
was no match for Reed's nut-like 
and while he hit the exit, Reed pushed over the 40k mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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44,000 |
In what can only be described as the luck of the draw, 2008 WSOP Main Event Finalists Ylon Schwartz and Dennis Phillips just happen to be seated at the same table here in the evening session.
Phillips seems to be enjoying the experience, having already picked up a few pots and increasing his stack up to 36000, which is apparently a much better start than he had earlier today.
"It's been great," he told PokerNews. "I haven't ran into quads yet or set over set."
Phillips even managed to fold ace-king preflop when two players shoved ahead of him.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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36,000
16,000
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16,000 |
As we're now ten minutes into the second level of the second Day 1 flight, we can confirm that Todd Brunson will last longer than the 10 minutes he did in the first half of the day.
It appear's Doyle's boy is playing it a little closer to the vest as evidenced by a hand we picked up on a 
flop. Brunson called a 400 chip bet from the player on his left and was joined by a third player on the button.
He even called a rather big looking 2,400 chip bet on the 
turn. But when his opponent led out for 5k on the 
river, a suddenly cautious Brunson let it go.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Chad Brown and Layne Flack have both re-entered here on this second Day 1 flight after busting earlier today and it just so happens they are seated at adjacent tables.
Flack was a little late coming in and still has played a hand, since the two took a few minutes to share Bad Beat stories from the first half of their day with Brown bemoaning the fact it took so long for his heads up opponent to call his small all-in re-raise with a flush draw that eventually came.
Layne's story was a much shorter one.
"They flopped me dead," he said, smiling and getting down to business.
They've fired their second bullet and have taken their seats.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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20,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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20,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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Kyle Cartwright just avoided a rather cagey trap.
Heads up in a pot with three sevens on the board and Jan Howard holding the case seven, she decided to check and try and induce a river bet from Cartwright.
He didn't bite, however, and Howard was forced to show the nuts earning just a small pot for her effort while Cartwright breathed a sigh of relief.
We caught this hand due to the eliminated player standing and loudly questioning his opponent - Marco Kudla, "For real dude? It took you that long to call?!"
We ran over to see the board showing 
and Kudla had tabled 
and his opponent had 
. The board finished 
and the eliminated player exclaimed, "Oh, and I got there too. Unbelievable!"
Kudla raked in the pot and now has twice the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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40,000 |
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20,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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20,000
20,000
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20,000 |
With re-entry options limited now to just the start of play on Day 2 and only for those who haven't re-entered already, odds are that this second Day 1 flight would play a little slower than the first.
But at least one player has some different plans. We caught Alan Thomas check-calling a 450 chip bet from his heads up opponent on a 
flop. He then check min-raised another 450 chip bet on the 
turn and went as far as to check-shove facing an 1,850 bet from his opponent after the river fell.
His opponent folded and Thomas is off to about as fast a start as one could expect here at WSOPC Choctaw.
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