It sure is nice to look down at pocket kings in the first orbit of Day 2 when you're below average in chips. That's what happened for Jesper Petersen and his stack of about 45,000, and he was more than happy to get it all in there preflop against Jeff Shulman.
The only problem for Petersen was that his ran smack into Shulman's , and it looked like he was going to have an awfully short Day 2.
The board ran out , and Shulman's aces hold up to earn him the pot and the early knockout. He's up to 105,000, and you can put Petersen at zero.
We're already hearing the call from the short stacks here in the no-limit half of Level 11. Just now we heard it from Table 368, where Casey Yontz has eliminated a short-stacked Eric Haddad in an early hand. Yontz pushes his stack to 34,500 on that one.
Cards are in the air! As will be the case throughout, we're starting with 30 minutes of no-limit hold'em this level, to be followed by 30 minutes of fixed limit HE.
That was the refrain we heard most often yesterday during the first day of play of Event #44, the $2,500 Mixed Hold'em event in which players alternate between a half-hour of no-limit hold'em and a half-hour of limit HE.
Of course, there were likely those who felt plenty comfortable during the limit rounds, for whom no-limit might have been "killing" them. Those limit guys, though, tend to be a little less vocal. For them, the complaints were generally more reserved, often variations of a similar theme: "I just can't pick up a hand."
It was a whirlwind day yesterday, with the field of 507 being whittled all of the way down to just 69. Eli Elezra bagged the most chips at day's end, followed closely by Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy. The plan today will be to play ten levels or down to the final nine, whichever comes first.
Join us back here at 2:30 p.m. local time for all of the action!
Table 358
Seat 1: Jovon Williams (35000)
Seat 2: Luke Vrabel (30100)
Seat 3: Daniel Idema (124200)
Seat 4: Claudio Rinaldi (33300)
Seat 5: Dwyte Pilgrim (109500)
Seat 7: Jarred Solomon (127600)
Seat 8: Marc Goldman (21000)
Table 359
Seat 1: Jeff Shulman (56800)
Seat 2: Manish Patel (58100)
Seat 3: Tay Nguyen (56300)
Seat 4: Steven Goosen (86300)
Seat 5: Timothy Vansant (24800)
Seat 6: Barry Werthmann (32100)
Seat 7: Johanssy Joseph (45600)
Seat 8: Jesper Petersen (45500)
Seat 9: Andreas Hoivold (25300)
Table 360
Seat 1: Erica Schoenberg (53000)
Seat 2: Daniel Kochan (55300)
Seat 3: Kenny Hsiung (81100)
Seat 4: Ray Henson (100900)
Seat 5: Narendra Banwari (13100)
Seat 6: Eli Elezra (165400)
Seat 7: Chris Overgard (9200)
Seat 8: Timothy Finne (104200)
Seat 9: Adam White (23100)
Table 363
Seat 1: Chris Podlewski (49100)
Seat 2: Gavin Smith (50900)
Seat 3: Eelke Arjaans (15900)
Seat 4: Cathleen Tran (24600)
Seat 5: Ivo Donev (37000)
Seat 6: Michael Michnik (66700)
Seat 7: James Collopy (140400)
Seat 8: Eric Froehlich (97600)
Seat 9: Arkadiy Tsinis (23100)
Table 364
Seat 1: Brian Aleksa (72100)
Seat 2: Matthew Matros (59400)
Seat 3: Jason Potter (22400)
Seat 4: Randy Lew (47200)
Seat 5: Michael Santoro (53900)
Seat 6: Steven Kelly (53200)
Seat 7: Jonathan Tamayo (108800)
Seat 8: Chris Bell (21200)
Seat 9: Alexander Freitez (79700)
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ran smack into Shulman's 
, and it looked like he was going to have an awfully short Day 2.
, and Shulman's aces hold up to earn him the pot and the early knockout. He's up to 105,000, and you can put Petersen at zero.
