From the cutoff seat, Joel Shulruf opened with a raise, and Travis Green moved all in from the small blind for his last 5,200 chips. When it came back to Shulruf, he called. Both players turned over ace-queen, with Shulruf's in slightly better shape than Green's .
Or so he thought. Green realized the benefit of having two flush draws preflop though, as the board ran out to favor the at-risk player and give him the winning four-flush. He's doubled up to around 13,000.
Barely one orbit into play, and Phil Hellmuth and Alex Kravchenko just had a huge confrontation when Hellmuth picked up pocket queens on the same hand Kravchenko was dealt .
They got all of Kravchenko's chips in the middle before the flop, after which the community cards came . Hellmuth tumbles back to 30,000, while Kravchenko doubles to 112,000.
Among the early casualties here in the first hands of the day was a short-stacked Jeff Madsen.
We are about 17 eliminations away from the money. Depending on how rapidly the eliminations come, hand-for-hand play will begin when we are either one or two spots from the cash.
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event No. 34, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Just 240 players made it from the original starting field of 2,095. The cash bubble will burst shortly, as only the top 216 finishers get paid.
We're just about 10 minutes from the cards going back into the air.