Ben Yu raised to 12,000 from the cutoff and Terrence Chan three-bet from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Yu made the call.
The flop came 
and Yu checked. Chan bet 6,000 and Yu called to see the 
come on the turn. Again, Yu checked and Chan bet 12,000. This time Yu folded and gave Chan the small pot.
On a flop of 
, Jonathan Little checked and Brian Tate bet 6,000. Little called and the two saw the 
come on the turn. Again Little checked and Tate bet.
Little called as the 
appeared on the river. Tate bet 12,000 after Little checked and received a call. He turned over 
which was good enough to take down the pot. He added 51,000 to his stack while Little dropped 42,000.
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Action folded to Ben Yu on the button. He raised and was three-bet by the small blind, Terrence Chan. Once Michael Schneider folded the big blind, Yu called to a flop of 
. Chan fired out a bet that Yu called. When the turn came another Broadway card, the 
, Chan checked and folded to Yu's bet.
Joe McGowan had the betting lead in a hand against Brian Tate until the turn. At the turn, with the board showing 
, Tate checked to McGowan, who fired out a bet. Tate then raised, with McGowan making the call. Tate fired a last bet on the river that McGowan called. Tate's 
, two pair kings and sevens, was ahead of McGowan's 
on every street.
Brian Tate raised to 12,000 from the button only to have Sijbrand Maal reraised to 18,000 from the small blind. Tate made the call and the two saw a flop of 
.
Maal bet 6,000 and Tate called. The came on the turn and again Maal bet and Tate called. When the 
hit the river, Maal bet 12,000 and Tate called. Maal showed 
for a pair of tens, which was good enough to take down the pot and increase his stack to 385,000.
The hands happen quickly here in fixed-limit hold'em. Brian Tate raised the cutoff and was called only by big blind Terrence Chan. Less than a minute later, Chan had check-called a bet on every street of a 
board. He couldn't beat the nuts, 
, a full house of aces full of sevens, that Tate showed down at the river.
Level: 2
Blinds: /
Ante:
In the last hand before the new level, Brendan Taylor raised from the small blind and Jonathan Little reraised from the big. Taylor called and the flop came 
. It went check, bet, call as it would when the came on the turn and 
on the river.
Little revealed for the ace-high flush and took down the pot. He increased his stack to around 330,000.
Brain Tate did not slow down in the face of Brendan Taylor's attempts to control the betting. Tate, sitting in the big blind, three-bet after Taylor opened the button with a raise. Taylor called to a flop of 
. Tate fired out a bet and was called. The turn was a seeming blank, the 
, and drew another bet from Tate. Taylor tried a raise, but quickly surrendered his hand after Tate kept on telling the same story by re-raising.
After one full level of play, Brian Tate has jumped out to the early lead. He's followed by Terrence Chan. The person taking the worst of it so far is Dutch player Sijbrand Maal.
