Having been chipped down to around 60,000, Raymer opened with a standard raise then saw an opponent make a substantial reraise behind. The rest of Raymer's chips soon found their way in the middle as he'd been dealt , but unfortunately for the 2004 WSOP Main Event champion his opponent held .
The board brought no help to Raymer's hand, thus ending his Main Event run here in Foxwoods.
Kevin Saul has enjoyed a positive Sunday afternoon, having built his chip stack well over 200,000 to challenge for the chip lead. He just added a few more to his stack in a three-way hand also involving Tom Cope.
After a Cope raise and both blinds calling — with Saul in the small blind — the flop came and Saul checked. The big blind bet 4,000, Cope raised to 8,000, and both Saul and the big blind called.
The turn was the and this time Saul led for 10,000, and only Cope called. Both players then checked the river.
"One pair," said Cope, but Saul tabled for two pair to claim the pot.
We happened upon a hand in progress with around 30,000 in the pot and a flop of . Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul had checked from middle position and the player to his direct left bet 20,000. Saul thought for a solid minute before making the call, and then he checked for a second time on the turn.
His opponent then fired another 20,000 and Saul tanked for a long time before moving all in for 77,500 more. His opponent called with the , but he was drawing dead as Saul held a set with the . The meaningless completed the board on the river and Saul doubled big.
So said Paul Snead matter-of-factly, who after open-raising from late position saw a short-stacked opponent push all in over his raise from the blinds. Snead thought a while longer, then finally called the reraise.
"Oh," said Snead with a little surprise as he tabled his , then saw that in fact he was ahead versus his opponent's .
The board rolled out , and Snead boosted his stack up over 100,000 as the total field size falls below 150 players.
Players are back in their seats and cards are once more in the air for Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Foxwoods Casino.
The big board is saying 153 players have returned to rejoin the battle, just over one quarter of the total number of entries for the event. We should have information regarding the overall prize pool and payouts some time this afternoon.
With Level 16 the levels are now extended to one hour in length. Players will play four more levels today before going on a dinner break.
Allen Kessler's Main Event run has come to an end as we approach the end of Level 15.
All in on his last hand with , Kessler had unfortunately run up against an opponent's , and when the board brought no improvement to Kessler's hand, he was eliminated.
David Paredes and Greg Raymer were just now involved in a preflop reraising battle in which Paredes was playing from the small blind and Raymer had the button. It appeared a Raymer open had been met with a Paredes reraise, then after the Fossilman fired back, Paredes pushed all in with the 50,000-plus he had behind.
Raymer thought out loud for two minutes before finally letting his hand go, and now Paredes has the chip advantage at Table 7.
The rise and fall of Aryeh Cohen is a tale of two days. Yesterday nothing could go wrong for Cohen as he amassed the biggest stack in the room, but now he is out less than two hours into Day 2.
Cohen was crippled after losing a huge pot to Gaines, and less than ten minutes later he was out the door. We didn't catch the hand, but someone at the table informed us that Cohen held middle pair and a flush draw and failed to get there again top pair with a king kicker.
and Saul checked. The big blind bet 4,000, Cope raised to 8,000, and both Saul and the big blind called.
and this time Saul led for 10,000, and only Cope called. Both players then checked the 
river.
for two pair to claim the pot.
. Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul had checked from middle position and the player to his direct left bet 20,000. Saul thought for a solid minute before making the call, and then he checked for a second time on the 
turn.
, but he was drawing dead as Saul held a set with the 
. The meaningless 
completed the board on the river and Saul doubled big.
, then saw that in fact he was ahead versus his opponent's 
.
, and Snead boosted his stack up over 100,000 as the total field size falls below 150 players.
board brought no improvement to Kessler's hand, he was eliminated.
