We picked up the action on a pot. It was heads-up, and Phil Ivey checked. When Josh Bergman made a 3,500-chip continuation bet, though — it looks like Ivey flatted a raise preflop — Ivey quickly check-raised to 9,000 straight. Bergman called after just a moment.
The turn came the , and Bergman called another 17,000 without much incident. The river was the , and Ivey wasn't slowing down. He started stacking up a bet with his right hand, and when he got to 35,000, he froze and shot an Ivey glance up at Bergman. Then he pulled his chips back toward his stack. A moment later, he grabbed that 35,000 again and held it in a betting position. A few seconds later, it finally made its way into the pot.
"Call," Bergman announced firmly.
Ivey never flinched as he tabled for the boat. Bergman took a long last look at his mystery cards, mucked them, and paid off his debt.
When Phil Ivey is flopping full houses, it figures to be a long day for the rest of the field. He's just moved up to about 128,000 with that pot.
Two of the bigger stacks in the field have just been having a little chip-argument over at Table #448. Farzad Bonyadi and Patrick Cronin were two of our chip leaders yesterday and when we joined the action Cronin had a bet of 7,800 splayed out in front of him on the button. Bonyadi was seated in the hijack seat and he had a bet of 17,800 splayed in front of him. Back to Cronin and he popped it up to 29,900 and all eyes averted to Bonyadi. Bonyadi moved a tower of orange 5k chips into the middle representing a bet in excess of 100,000 and Cronin mucked instantly.
Former November Niner Matt Giannetti is having a moment of quiet contemplation over at Table #447. The reason Giannetti is so quiet is because of a man named Shaun Deeb.
Unfortunately, we only caught the tail end of the action. The board was showing and there was 70,000 in the pot. Deeb was in the cutoff and he had made a river bet of around 40,000. Giannetti was seated on the button and was dwelling in the tank. Eventually Giannetti made the call and Deeb turned over for trips and Giannetti mucked his hand.
"I'll tell you what," Will Failla piped up. "If you give me $10,000, I'll shave every single hair on Ali Eslami's head."
A game of "Lodden Thinks" has broken out on the table nearest us, and the questions have so far been pretty run-of-the-mill. "How much would it take for Ali to shave his head?" and "How many women has Ali been with?"
Vinny Pahuja just came walking past the table, though, and Antonio Esfandiari asked him for a prompt. "All right, I got one," Pahuja decided quickly . "How many people will die at EDC (Electric Daisy Carnival) this weekend?"
It's a bit sinister for Lodden thinks, but that didn't stop Esfandiari from answering. "It has to be like... two or three," he said.
Chris Moorman opened to 3,500 from middle position before Nabih Zaczac potted to 12,900. That put Moorman in a tough spot. Zaczac only started the hand with 16,100 chips, and by the look on his face, Moorman had raised a bit light. He spent a couple minutes pondering, then dropped the covering raise into the pot. Zaczac quickly called all in, and he tabled .
Moorman immediately smacked himself in the forehead, then let out a laugh as he showed up .
He runs pretty good, and the flop gave him four outs to the straight. He'd brick the turn and river, though, and Zaczac has doubled.
Marco Traniello is vying for his second 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) cash after finishing in 20th place in Event #7 $1,500 Seven Card Stud. He came into the day towards the bottom tier of the chip counts with only 28,000 chips but has just doubled up.
There was an early position raise to 3,600 when Traniello raised pot from the big blind leaving 16,000 behind. His opponent made the call and when the hit the flop Traniello moved all-in. His opponent called and when the cards were over turned Traniello was in great shape.
Traniello
Opponent
The turn and river was trey-less and Traniello was up to 56,000 chips.
That's what Jon Aguiar asked us as he looked across at the table adjacent to him. "You should just put that one on the stage," he said. "People are going to want to see that."
The table he's talking about is Table 447, and it's awfully tough:
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Liv Boeree has a top ten starting stack going into Day 2
Welcome to Day 2 of Event #17 $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em; the event where the famous words, "all-in," are replaced by the single word, "pot." The removal of the ability to shove your chips into the middle, and the absence of antes, means that this format is a little slower than its Cadillac cousin. But despite the reduction in speed the quality of poker on display is amazing, and this is because of the calibre of players left in the 69 man and woman strong field.
In the top ten we have the chip leader Steve Landfish with two World Series of Poker final table appearances under his belt, multiple bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi, one of the most feared players on the planet and last years WSOPE Main Event runner-up Chris Moorman, bracelet winner and World Poker Tour (WPT) champion David Benyamine, poker's golden couple and double European Poker Tour (EPT) winners Kevin MacPhee and Liv Boeree and finally multiple bracelet winner and all-time money leader Erik Seidel.
If you add Phil Ivey, Shaun Deeb, Sorel Mizzi, JP Kelly, Olivier Busquet, Antonio Esfandiari et al into the mix then this is some tournament and it is going to take some winning!
The Day 2 action starts at 13:00 PM direct from the Amazon room. The Pokernews team will be on site to bring you the very best coverage on the planet so stay tuned.
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pot. It was heads-up, and Phil Ivey checked. When Josh Bergman made a 3,500-chip continuation bet, though — it looks like Ivey flatted a raise preflop — Ivey quickly check-raised to 9,000 straight. Bergman called after just a moment.
, and Bergman called another 17,000 without much incident. The river was the 
, and Ivey wasn't slowing down. He started stacking up a bet with his right hand, and when he got to 35,000, he froze and shot an Ivey glance up at Bergman. Then he pulled his chips back toward his stack. A moment later, he grabbed that 35,000 again and held it in a betting position. A few seconds later, it finally made its way into the pot.
for the boat. Bergman took a long last look at his mystery cards, mucked them, and paid off his debt.
and there was 70,000 in the pot. Deeb was in the cutoff and he had made a river bet of around 40,000. Giannetti was seated on the button and was dwelling in the tank. Eventually Giannetti made the call and Deeb turned over 
for trips and Giannetti mucked his hand.
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flop gave him four outs to the straight. He'd brick the 
turn and 
river, though, and Zaczac has doubled.
hit the flop Traniello moved all-in. His opponent called and when the cards were over turned Traniello was in great shape.
and river 
