Soheil Shamseddin was facing a difficult decision on the river against Hoyt Corkins. Corkins had either bet or raised Shamseddin -- either way it was one bet back to Shamseddin. His board of (X-X) / / (X) was up against Corkins' (X-X) / / (X).
After about a minute of deliberation (unusually long for a fixed-limit event) Shamseddin called. Corkins opened for trip eights.
"What a laydown!" said Eli Elezra from across the table. "I had two pair." It seems likely that Shamseddin did also, but we'll never know -- he mucked.
We pick up the action on fourth street, heads up between Shane Douglas and Erick Lindgren.
Douglas: (X-X) / / (X)
Lindgren: (X-X) / / (X)
On fourth street, Douglas bet his queen-ten, and Lindgren called. On fifth street, Lindgren picked up the ace and fired a bet of his own. Douglas called a bet there, as well as single bets on sixth and seventh streets.
Lindgren opened up , showing the winning nut diamond flush, as Douglas mucked his seven.
Max Pescatori never managed to get much going yesterday, finishing with just barely more chips than he started with. Things aren't going much better so far today. He called a completion bet made by Karle Wilson (door card: ) showing the . Wilson bet fourth when he caught a queen to Pescatori's nine, then took down the pot on fifth by betting his four against Pescatori's three.
Pescatori once again has less than the starting stack.
In a hotly contested early pot, Marco Traniello made two pair, tens and sixes, by the time all the cards were out. Mark Seif was the lone opponent, and he couldn't table anything better. The pot of about 17,500 chips was pushed to Traniello, bumping him up to 32,000. Seif has slipped to 22,000.
Welcome back to the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino for our continuing coverage of the $10,000 Seven-Card Stud World Championship. Day 2 has dawned with 101 players remaining out of the 142 that began play some 21 hours ago.
After the chips were counted down last night, it was David Oppenheim who snagged the overall lead, bagging up 97,000 at the end of Day 1. Hot on his heels are the likes of Miami John Cernuto, Nick Frangos, Toto Leonidas, Steve Zolotow, and Matt Glantz, who dusted off more than 20,000 of his chips just as the day ended.
Today, we've moved out of the cozy confines of the Brasilia room, and we're back to restart in the cavernous Amazon room. Play is scheduled to get underway at 2:00pm, but we suspect it may get pushed back a bit. The orange section that we are supposed to be using is full of Event #7 players, and there's nowhere to put our Stud restart just yet. The staff is breaking tables out of the area, and we figure to get going as soon as 13 tables become available.