Preflop, Linda Lee called a player's all-in for 12,000. Linda held A-K and her opponent held A-8. Both players missed the board and Lee's A-K held up. After the hand, Lee is up to 65,000.
Gaetano Buda raised to 1,260 from the cutoff, and Patrik Antonius made the call from the big blind.
The flop came . Antonius checked, Buda bet 1,200, then Antonius check-raised to 4,100. Buda called. The turn brought the . This time Antonius bet out 6,500, and Buda called.
The fell on the river. Antonius checked it, Buda bet 5,000, and Antonius let it go.
Antonius is at 52,000, while Buda moved up to 66,500.
It was a short day 2 for William Exelby. Just five minutes into the first level, Exelby got all his chips in holding against the of Alberto Franceschini.
There was little suspense on the hand as the came right on the flop. Exelby got no help on the turn or river and was eliminated.
The "All in and Call" cries are ringing out fast and furious early in today's restart. A lot of short stacks are getting it in trying to either double up or go home.
Philip Hilm, starting the day with 7,175 in chips, got his short stack all in preflop vs. an early-position opponent. Hilm showed and was in a race situation against his opponent's . Hilm flopped a set when it came down . The turn was the opening up a straight draw for his opponent, but Hilm caught the case jack on the river to make quads and double his stack to 14,000.
1,250 players will return to the Rio Convention Center today for action on Day 2a of the 2008 WSOP Main Event. Chip counts for all but a handful of non-reporting players from Days 1a and 1b have been loaded into our "Chip Counts" page (link at right).
These players were also listed in the official WSOP tallies as having an unspecified number of chips. The counts for these players, therefore, are outdated or missing in their entirety:
Julian Gardner
Phidias Georgiou
Philip Jacobsen
Ayaz Manji
Joseph Ward
David Gallis
Ofir Ventura
John Spagnolo
Larry Snyder
Ferdinand Quelle
William Dumont
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