The board was reading and Sebastian Pauli was already all in preflop for his last 26,000 when Donovan checked from the big blind along with Tzu Huang in the hijack. The completed the board and Donovan and Huang checked again.
Huang showed , Pauli showed , and Donovan revealed to win the pot with aces and jacks with a king-kicker.
Ryan Leng opened to 55,000 from the cutoff and Veselin Dimitrov three-bet jammed for 285,000 from the small blind. Leng snap-called and the players turned over their hands.
Veselin Dimitrov:
Ryan Leng:
The board came and Leng took down the pot, ending Dimitrov's run in the Main Event.
Sulabh Choudhury moved all in from the hijack for 335,000 and Zachary Donovan made the call from the button.
Sulabh Choudhury:
Zachary Donovan:
The flop came giving Choudhury a flush draw and the turn brought the giving him an open-ended straight draw as well. But the filled up the board, and Donovan stayed ahead, raking in the pot and sending Choudhury to the exit.
Peter Park opened to 60,000 from the cutoff and Ardys Reed three-bet jammed for 300,000 from the button. Tzu Huang reshoved for 2,600,000 from the small blind and Park let it go.
Ardys Reed:
Tzu Huang:
The board ran out and Huang took down the pot, eliminating Reed.
Dilip Das was eliminated from his table at the same time.
The remaining 17 players are now redrawing for the final two tables.
Michael Trivett raised to 60,000 from middle position and Kristen Deardorff three-bet jammed for 220,000. Action folded back to Trivett who made the call.
Kristen Deardorff:
Michael Trivett:
The runout was and Trivett took down the pot with trip tens, eliminating Deardorff in 17th place for $10,980.
Day 2 of the $1,700 WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event has concluded after ten 60-minute levels of play with just 16 players remaining. A total of 778 entry slips were compiled for the tournament, accumulating a total prize pool of $1,178,670 which surpassed the one million guarantee that was offered.
Day 2 saw 155 players return to the tournament area with the top 117 finishers being guaranteed to take home at least $2,553. The money bubble burst during the second level of the day when Kevin MacPhee moved all in for his last twelve big blinds with kings and got called by Charles Johnson with ace-queen. Johnson made a wheel, and sent MacPhee home empty-handed.
Players started heading to the payout desk in quick succession after it including champions Ben Yu (99th place - $2,598), Christopher Wallace (95th place - $2,598), and Scott Bohlman (88th place - $2,681).
Bagging the largest stack by night's end was Casey Stewart with 3,195,000. Stewart has over $630,000 in total live earnings on his poker resume with multiple victories. He took over the chip lead early in the day and kept climbing at a steady pace.
Stewart is closely followed by Tzu Huang with 2,965,000. Huang caught fire during the last two levels of the night and he eliminated Ardys Reed in 19th place with aces against Reed’s king-queen to boost his stack even more. Michael Trivett rounds up the top three with 2,860,000.
Bracelet winner and two-time ring winner Ryan Leng is in fourth place on the leaderboard and he will looking to add more gold to his collection. Leng has 61 cashes at the World Series of Poker and he cashed fourteen times at the 2019 World Series of Poker alone.
Zachary Donovan is next in the counts with a healthy stack of 2,200,000. Last February, Zonovan won the WSOP Circuit Seminole Coconut Creek Main Event. He will be going for another Circuit Main Event title, and for his third ring.
Other notables still in contention include former French soccer player Sebastien Grax (1,000,000), as well as Ben Palmer (580,000), and bracelet winner Ryan Laplante (575,000).
Palmer has over $2.6 million in poker live earnings including some major titles. He will try to win his first WSOP Circuit Main Event.
As for Laplante, just a couple of weeks ago he added a victory and a six-figure score to his resume. He got extremely close to claiming his second bracelet at the 2019 WSOP last summer but ended up getting third in Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. He will be looking to match his bracelet with a ring.
Guillermo Bella will also be returning tomorrow with 240,000. Bella started Day 2 with a stack of 19,000, which was about five big blinds, and he managed to make it through another day.
The remaining 16 players are all guaranteed to collect $10,980 but all eyes will be on the top prize of $215,943 as well as the Circuit ring. Action will resume on Tuesday November 26th at noon local time at Level 26 which features a small blind of 20,000, big blind of 40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante.
As usual, the Live Reporting Team will be on the floor to provide you with all the updates.