Vladimir Schmelev opened from the button to 3,000 and Chris Moorman made the call to see a flop fall.
Moorman checked and Schmelev fired out 4,000 only to have Moorman check-raise to 11,000. Schmelev made the call before the turn landed the and Moorman fired out 17,200.
Schmelev - being covered - moved all in and was quickly called by Moorman.
Moorman:
Schmelev:
With Schmelev turning a higher set, he was a near certainty to double through and take a commanding lead in his match against the British online star.
Unfortunately there aren't too many certainties in poker as the dealer burned and turned the final three - the - to send Schmelev crashing to the rail as Moorman proved victorious and into the final thirty-two with a guaranteed $17,987 in his pocket.
On a flop of , Juan Ramirez followed up his preflop raise with a continuation bet. Ernst Schmejkal check-raised, Ramirez raised back, and Schmejkal moved all in with the slightly bigger stack.
Ramirez called with , still on the draw, and Schmejkal was looking to fade the outs and have his set of sevens hold up. The turn and river were a blank apiece for Ramirez, and he has been eliminated after missing that big draw.
Ernst Schmejkal is in the money and on into the fourth round.
With play now underway, there are some matches that only have one opponent seated. Missing from the field are Vivek Rajkumar (though he's walking to his seat as we speak now), Johan Sundell, and Andrew Feldman. Their opponents have only the dealers to talk to for now.
Although they are waiting patiently for their match to get started, the clock continues to tick away with WSOP rules stipulating that every minute the seated player will receive a big blind, and then a small blind and so forth until their opponent arrives.
Today we will be playing three rounds of heads up matches.
There will be one at 3:00 pm with the winner sneaking into the money, before another is played at 7:00 pm. The final one of the day will be at 11:00 pm to leave just eight players remaining for final day action tomorrow.
Phil Ivey is making a deep run in Day 3 of the PLO/PLH event, so he and his third-round opponent Kido Pham agreed to bump their heads-up match forward to an earlier time. They played it out at 1:00 p.m. here in the Amazon Room, and the battle was a quick one.
Pham eliminated Ivey in less than ten minutes, and he's the first one through to the Round of 32.
Welcome back to the Rio and the 2010 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event #35 $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship!
64 players are returning for Day 2 action with all off them just win away from being in the money and a guaranteed $17,987 richer. However it will be the $625,682 first prize, coveted gold bracelet and title of Heads Up Champion that will be the only goal in mind.
Josh Arieh, Terrence Chan, Scott Clements, Antonio Esfandiari, Ashton Griffin, Phillip Gordon, Bertrand Grospellier, Steve Gross, Phil Ivey, Faraz Jaka, Gabe Kaplin, Alexander Kostritsyn, Alexander Kravchenko, Jonathan Little, Chris Moorman, Brock Parker, Vivek Rajkumar, Vanessa Rousso, David Williams and Sorel Mizzi are a few of the big names remaining.
Make sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for continuous live updates from 3:00 pm PST of every rivered flush, turned straight and flopped set from Event #35!
Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
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flop fall.
and Moorman fired out 17,200.
- to send Schmelev crashing to the rail as Moorman proved victorious and into the final thirty-two with a guaranteed $17,987 in his pocket.
, Juan Ramirez followed up his preflop raise with a continuation bet. Ernst Schmejkal check-raised, Ramirez raised back, and Schmejkal moved all in with the slightly bigger stack.
, still on the draw, and Schmejkal was looking to fade the outs and have his set of sevens hold up. The turn and river were a blank apiece for Ramirez, and he has been eliminated after missing that big draw.
flop fall.
land on the turn and Verspui fired out 3,000.
landed on the river and both players checked.
as Clements picked up his cards, looked at them, then back at the board, before flashing his 
and mucking his hand.