Sam Grizzle started the day on the wrong end of a big pot. He called the bets of Jeremy Kottler on every street through fifth street. On sixth street, Grizzle's board showed x-x / against Kottler's x-x / . With first action, he elected to bet, and Kottler called. Grizzle checked the river dark. When Kottler bet, Grizzle squeezed his river card, raised his eyebrows and folded.
After the hand, Grizzle slipped to 20,500 chips while Kottler climbed to 16,000.
Barbara Lewis was just eliminated by Richard Venturella. Lewis got all her chips in with X-X / . Venturella was showing X-X / . Lewis got the on 4th street and Venturella the . The hands were turned and Venturella was already filled up with in the hole. Lewis was drawing dead and left the Brasilia room.
Day 2 has claimed its first victims. Short-stacked Suzie Matzura and John Womack were sent to the rail on the first hand of the day. Sixty more eliminations and we will have our final table.
70 players returned for day 2 and will be fighting for one of the top 40 spots. Our winner will take home over $135,000. Notables in the field include: Men the Master, Greg Mueller, Amnon Filippi, and Sam Grizzle.
We have a 100 ante, 200 bring in, and 600/1200 limits.
70 players remain in the hunt in Event 35, $1,500 Seven Card Stud, led overnight by Leonardo Ebeling at 78,000 in chips. Here are the official seat assignments for Day 2 as released by the WSOP:
(Table 47)
Seat 1: Becki Vincent -- 5,900
Seat 2: Daniel Heimiller -- 1,500
Seat 3: Peter Campo -- 9,000 Seat 4: Alan Jaffray -- 28,900
Seat 5: Rodney H Pardey -- 8,400
Seat 6: Richard Salzman -- 5,200
Seat 7: Richard Tatalovich -- 22,200
Seat 8: Giacomo D'agostino -- 6,000
(Table 48)
Seat 1: Richard Venturella -- 17,600
Seat 2: Bruce Levitt -- 14,100
Seat 3: Barbara Lewis -- 2,500
Seat 4: Owen Mitchell -- 10,700 Seat 5: Joel Fischbein -- 18,900
Seat 6: Jean Gaspard -- 4,100
Seat 7: Tibor Tolnai -- 8,400
Seat 8: Jens Voertmann -- 9,100
(Table 49)
Seat 1: Kobie West -- 14,300
Seat 2: Stefan Rapp -- 17,000
Seat 3: Payam 'Paul' Attarchi -- 31,300
Seat 4: Roy Rose -- 18,200
Seat 5: Lu Wang -- 19,000 Seat 6: Leonardo Ebeling -- 78,000
Seat 7: Chip Jett -- 24,000
Seat 8: Ed Fernandez -- 12,800
(Table 50)
Seat 1: Charles Moore -- 27,300
Seat 3: Jerry Buss -- 8,900
Seat 4: Ralph Perry -- 10,900
Seat 5: Daniel Studer -- 17,100
Seat 6: David Levi -- 22,800
Seat 7: Cory Zeidman -- 17,500 Seat 8: Chris McIntyre -- 24,500