Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Day 2 | 2010 World Series of Poker

07-04-2010 06:02 UTC-7

Official Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

Player	Chips	Progress
	594,000 50,000	50,000
Sean Prendiville	559,000
Matthew Schulte	488,000
Mehul Chaudhari	424,000
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman	414,000
Daniel Van Kalkeren	405,000
Benjamin Palmer	394,000
Dorlan Schick	387,000
Johan Ekerfelt	368,000 1,000	1,000
Raymond Bonavida	350,000 350,000	350,000
Jesse Rockowitz	320,000

Matthew Lupton	315,000
Micah Johnson	309,000
Miklos Zsuffa	309,000
Espen Moen	277,000
Mike Allis	266,000

Ognjen Sekularac	265,000 89,000	89,000
Michael Kaufman	265,000
Michael Brain	260,000
Johnny Kitchens	257,000
Henrik Tollefsen	257,000
Daniel Hart	243,000
Matthew Nieberg	241,000
Yu Shen	233,000
Nathan Jessen	230,000

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Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 Completed

07-04-2010 03:24 UTC-7

Day 2 Concludes

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We've come to the end of Day 2 of Event #54, the last of the open-field $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em events. A total of 586 players returned today from a starting field of 3,844. The bustouts came quickly in the early going, with nearly 200 players going out within just a couple of hours. The money bubble burst quickly, and the bustouts continued at a rapid pace until late in the evening.

Among those going out with cashes today were Toto Leonidas, Thomas Fuller, Jena Delk, Thuyen Doan, Grayson Ramage, James Dempsey, Chris Klodnicki, Tony Dunst, and husband and wife Jorge and Isabel Carvalho. Later in the evening we saw George Lind, Al Krux, Mikael Johansseon, Eelke Arjaans, Van Nguyen, and Kara Scott also leave us having realized a profit in this one.

Meanwhile, a few players began to push out ahead of the field, including Matthew Schulte, Sean Prendiville, and our end-of-day chip leader David Peters.

There will be 47 players returning for tomorrow's Day 3 at 3 p.m., with the plan being to play down to a final table. Join us back here then for all of the action!

07-04-2010 03:19 UTC-7

End of Day Big Stacks

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07-04-2010 03:05 UTC-7

Shepsky Ships It, Is Shipped Out

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Matthew Shepsky had a big stack earlier today, though had slipped back to the middle of the pack as the field began to shrink.

Just now he found himself in a hand in which an opponent raised, he reraised, his opponent shoved, and Shepsky called with the rest of his stack.

Shepsky was in decent shape with {Q-Clubs} {Q-Spades} against his opponent's {Q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} . But the board came {9-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {J-Diamonds} , giving his opponent the straight and sending Shepsky home just before we wrap it up tonight.

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07-04-2010 02:59 UTC-7

One, Two, Three... Go

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Jesse Rockstein was given the honor of drawing the card to see how many more hands would be played here at the end of Level 18, and he drew a trey.

07-04-2010 02:59 UTC-7

Some for Ogura

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Takashi Ogura has added a few to his stack while knocking out a competitor here in the late stages of play. His opponent was all in with {2-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} against Ogura's {A-Spades} {J-Clubs} . The flop came {8-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {6-Hearts} and Ogura was still behind. But the {A-Clubs} came on the turn, giving him a better pair. And the {2-Clubs} on the river gave his opponent a set, but completed a club flush for Ogura, knocking out his opponent.

He's at 195,000 now.

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07-04-2010 02:49 UTC-7

Johnson's Spades Down Hart

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We heard about this one after the fact. A player opened with a raise to 21,000, then Dan Hart made a minimum reraise to 34,000. Micah Johnson then made it 120,000 to go from the button.

The original raiser folded -- pocket queens, he said afterwards -- and Hart, who had Johnson covered, made the call. Hart showed {10-} {10-} and Johnson {A-Spades} {Q-Spades} .

The flop came {10-Spades} -X-X, giving Hart a set. But the turn and river brought two more non-pairing spades, and Johnson's flush was best. Johnson moves to 340,000, while Hart slips to 240,000.

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07-04-2010 02:40 UTC-7

Jesse Rockowitz Up to 300,000

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A player moved all in middle position for about 76,000 chips and the action folded to Jesse Rockowitz in the small blind. Rockowitz eventually called.

Showdown
Rockowitz: {a-Clubs} {10-Clubs}
Opponent: {a-Diamonds} {6-Clubs}

The {2-Hearts} {9-Spades} {7-Spades} {4-Spades} {8-Spades} board gave Jesse Rockowitz 300,000 chips and his opponent a passport to the rail.

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07-04-2010 02:33 UTC-7

Ognjen Sekularac Going Down

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When we arrived at the table, the board spread out {5-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {2-Clubs} {q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} . There were three players in the hand, and one of them all in.

The all in player tabled {k-Clubs} {10-Clubs} and took the pot. Ognjen Sekularac tabled {a-} {j-} and was not very happy. He has slipped to 180,000 chips.

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