The floor staff took Bach's concerns to heart, but reminded him that with the heavy WSOP schedule already in place, delaying an event or adding a day causes a ripple effect across the series that affects ESPN filming, as well as scheduling conflicts for casino employees and the media alike. What action, if any, will be taken regarding this matter remains to be seen.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 2 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
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The floor staff took Bach's concerns to heart, but reminded him that with the heavy WSOP schedule already in place, delaying an event or adding a day causes a ripple effect across the series that affects ESPN filming, as well as scheduling conflicts for casino employees and the media alike. What action, if any, will be taken regarding this matter remains to be seen.
Regardless, we will still play down to nine before we go home, possibly needing sunglasses by that time.

into Perry Friedman's pocket sixes and failed to improve; Byrd's 
couldn't beat Mike Ngo's presto (pocket fives). We are down to 36 players.


flop. Souza had 
for top pair, top kicker; Tran had pocket aces. No ten on the turn or river for Souza and he hits the rail.Tran is over 950,000 in chips now, taking over the chip lead from Pia Jeppesen.
Level: 18
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
Johnny Menus moved all in for his last 72,000 with

, and Tran made the call with 
. The board came 



, and Menus (Johnny Carlson) is sent home. Tran, meanwhile, is up to 655,000.

, he called an all in of 67,000 from Thomas Fuller. Fuller opened 
and neither player improved. The hand dropped Ferguson to 215,000.The very next hand, Fuller doubled again when his

bested the 
of Richard Byrd. Just like that, Fuller is up to 325,000. Byrd is dangerously low at 80,000.
and Evan McNiff checked from the small blind. Matthew Kearney bet 30,000 from the big blind and McNiff made the call. The turn brought the
and McNiff checked again and Kearney fired 50,000 this time. McNiff made a casual call. The river came the
and not unlike the streets before, McNiff check-called 75,000 from Kearney. Kearney showed
for the full house and McNiff mucked. McNiff is down to about 270,000 while Kearney climbs to roughly 650,000.
The first hand saw Izuogu calling a raise to 35,000 to see a flop of


. The raiser checked, Izuogu pushed and was insta-called. The raiser showed pocket aces beating Izuogu's A-Q by showdown.A few hands later, Izuogu's

was beat by another player's 
when four spades hit the board. Izuogu was eliminated in 45th place and takes home $14,480 for his efforts.