It's all over for Steve Sung. After Shun Uchida raised, Steve Sung made it three bets from the small blind, folding Billy Baxter. Uchida put the fourth bet in, to 20,000, and Sung put a total of 21,000 in the middle -- all of his chips.
He flashed two black aces to Robert Mizrachi as he discarded two on the first pass. "I just always like going all in with those," he confided. Uchida took two.
On the second pass, Sung was pat. Uchida took one. Both players stood pat on the third draw.
"If you're pat, you probably got me," said Sung. Uchida did indeed have Sung, having drawn to Number Two. Sung earns $15,054 to ease the pain.
With simultaneous eliminations on each table, the remaining seven players have collapsed down to one table. They will play seven-handed, with each player being dealt into the hand, until another player is eliminated. Then we will be done for the day.
With seven left, Billy Baxter is the short stack with just 25,000.
"Well, I was in last position when we started and I'm in last position now," said Baxter, alluding to the fact that he began today 30th out of the 30 remaining players.
Greg Raymer, our 11th place finisher, had just walked up to the side of the table. "You want to change positions, Billy?" joked Raymer.
Billy Baxter couldn't quite pull off the miracle final table appearance. He started the day in dead last place -- 30th out of 30 runners -- with just 6,800 chips and limits of 1,200 and 2,400. He was quickly all in, drew three, then drew three again, then stood pat and won with a made eight. He rode that to a big chip stack during the middle of the day, but finally his tournament has come to an end.
Down to his last 26,000, Baxter raised before the draw and was called by David Sklansky in the small blind and Gioi Luong in the big blind. Each player drew two cards. Action checked to Baxter.
"Well, they both checked. That's a good sign," said Baxter as he bet. Sklansky folded, but Luong called.
On the second draw, Luong took two again. This time Baxter drew one. Luong checked to him. Baxter bet, leaving just 1,000 behind. "Raise me a thousand, will you?" Baxter asked. Luong obliged, and Baxter was all in.
On the third draw, both players drew one card. Luong showed 7-6-5-2, and drew a queen. Baxter showed 8-5-4-2, but also drew a queen. He is eliminated in 7th place and collects $15,054. With that elimination, we are done for the night.
With the ouster of seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Billy Baxter, we have our six-handed final table for Event No. 40, the $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) event.
Noted author David Sklansky looks to end a 25-year drought since his last WSOP bracelet, but he'll have a long way to climb back in order to do so. Sklansky will begin play tomorrow as the short stack, well behind our chip leaders Gioi Luong and John Phan. Phan will be trying to become the summer's first two-time bracelet winner.
Come back tomorrow at 2pm to see who draws his way to the bracelet!
Day 2 of Event 40 $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw, has come to an official close with the release of the overnight chip counts. Following the elimination of Billy Baxter in seventh, the final six players bagged their chips, with the counts for each player as follows:
John Phan 294,000
Gioi Luong 291,000
Robert Mizrachi 215,000
Shun Uchida 200,000
Ben Ponzio 113,000
David Sklansky 78,000
The final table for this one gets underway at 2pm PDT in the Amazon Room.