Currently the tournament has been split up into three different sections here in the Amazon Room.
The majority of the players are located in the purple section, while there is overflow in both the blue and orange parts of the room.
The Tournament Director has just announced that those players located in the orange section will not be seated there when the money is reached - so don't get comfy because we may be in the money sooner rather then later.
Sitting at a table with plenty of other big stacks, John Eames just became the biggest by besting Nathan Jensen in a large part early in Day 2.
With the board reading and over 14,000 already in the pot, Eames found himself facing a bet of 5,000 by Jensen. The smallish sizing could have been intended to look like a value bet, but after thinking for over two minutes Eames decided to look up his opponent.
Jensen immediately said "nice call" as Eames flipped up his , building his stack to over 90,000 as we head to an early color-up break.
Michael Pesek called after a player in the big blind went all in for his last 7,700 chips and Pesek tabled the . He found himself trailing the held by his opponent and the dealer revealed a flop of .
Pesek found a few more outs in the form of a gutshot straight draw after the turn came , but the on the river was a complete blank and Pesek dropped to 28,000 or so in chips.
Elliot Smith entered the pot from the lo-jack with a splashy raise of 1,500. The action folded to the small blind, who after a few moments, pushed out a three-bet of 4,000.
Once the big blind passed, Smith went into the tank for nearly three minutes - so long in fact that Lacey Jones attempted to start a conversation with Matt Vengrin.
Eventually Smith would opt to muck his hand while slipping to roughly 19,000 in chips.
Ryan Kun entered the pot with a raise to 1,600 only to have Josh "JJProdigy" Field ship his last 4,900 in to the pot from the cutoff. Kun deliberated for a few moments before making the call to put the infamous online player at risk.
Kun:
Field:
With Field in great shape to double, the saw his opponent gain a further out with a ten, and with Field noticing, he stated, "No ten!"
The turn of the changed little, but when the river spiked the sickening , Field was left to vacate the tournament.
"That's sick!" stated Kun as he raked in Field's chips.
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and over 14,000 already in the pot, Eames found himself facing a bet of 5,000 by Jensen. The smallish sizing could have been intended to look like a value bet, but after thinking for over two minutes Eames decided to look up his opponent.
. He found himself trailing the 
held by his opponent and the dealer revealed a flop of 
.
, but the 
on the river was a complete blank and Pesek dropped to 28,000 or so in chips.
was no match for an opponent's 
saw his opponent gain a further out with a ten, and with Field noticing, he stated, "No ten!"
changed little, but when the river spiked the sickening 
, Field was left to vacate the tournament.