Jennifer Tilly and 2010 November Niner Filippo Candio are sitting side by side and just got involved in a big pot on one of the first hands of the tournaments. Tilly raised preflop to 1,050, and Candio three bet to 2,600. Tilly called, and the players took a flop of . Both players checked, and the turn came the . Tilly bet out 3,000, and Candio called quickly. The river brought the , and Tilly cut out a bet of 7,000. Candio thought for about 20 seconds before calling, and Tilly flipped up for a rivered set. Candio shook his head, showed the , and sent the chips to Tilly, boosting her stack up to about 58,000 early on.
We're back for the second round of the Shootout (bang, bang!) event. Players today will be at ten-handed tables and at the moment, they're all joint chip leaders and all equally short-stacked with 45,000. Everyone is in the money and guaranteed just shy of $5,000 having won their table yesterday but today, once again, only first place will matter.
Looking down on seating draw and table 280 looks to be arguably the toughest of the 16, it features Greg Raymer, Dan Kelly, Dan O'Brien and Thayer Rasmussen amongst its competitors, all of whom will be looking to advance into Day 3 and the final 16 players.
Play will begin at 2.30pm as our remaining runners attempted to win their table and guarantee themselves $13,238 with a shot at the $369,371 first prize, and of course, the gold WSOP bracelet.