Day 2 of Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em has wrapped up after another 10 levels of play. Finishing atop the final 19 was Gregg Wilkinson with 1.227 million in chips. He'll return on Monday with the chip lead for the final day, but it's not going to be easy to win this thing.
Early in the day the money bubble broke. It was Pratik Ghatge who was the tournament bubble boy. His pocket kings went down to an opponent's when an ace hit the river and that sent everyone into the money. Some of the notables to finish the day in the money, but short of Day 3 were Sam Stein, Clint Tolbert, Justin Schwartz, John Dolan, Lauren Kling, Isaac Haxton and Christina Lindley.
Coming in behind Wilkinson and rounding out the top five are Patrick Smith (867,000), Cliff Goldkind (760,000), Eric Wasserson (725,000) and Adria Balaguer (697,000).
Canadian Philippe Boucher is still alive and bagged up 459,000 in chips. Boucher was the winner of Event 6: €1,620 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe. There he won €125,584 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Another notable, David Peters, bagged up 681,000 and is in sixth place overall.
Day 3 will commence on Monday at 1:00 PM where the players will return to play for the whopping $559,514 first-place prize and the most coveted prize in poker, a WSOP gold bracelet. Be sure to join us right here on PokerNews for all of the live updates!
We don't know exactly how it played out, but what we do know is Sam Stein was all in and at risk against Patrick Smith in a huge pot preflop.
Stein:
Smith:
The winner of this pot was going to have around 350,000 in chips jump rocketing whoever won to the top of the chip counts. Once everything was set the dealer spread a flop giving Smith a huge advantage going to the turn and the river.
A on the turn was not the card Stein needed, a jack and a jack only could save Stein. The on the river made it official and Stein's tournament life was over.
The run of Clint Tolbert in his second World Series of Poker cash ever has ended. David Peters was the one that finished him off in a big preflop flip.
From the hijack seat, Peters raised to 12,000. Tolbert three-bet to 26,000 from the cutoff seat and action folded back to Peters. He reraised all in and Tolbert made the call.
Tolbert:
Peters:
The flop was and Peters hit a king to take the lead. The turn and river provided no help for Tolbert from there and he lost the pot. At final count of the chips, Peters had 154,000 and Tolbert 133,500, which meant Tolbert was eliminated. His second all-time WSOP cash pocketed him $7,520.
Sam Stein was once nursing a pretty short stack and looking to double up. He's done that by now, and much more. We just caught him picking up some chips from David Dalesandro that sent him over 225,000.
On the board, Dalesandro checked and Stein bet 16,000. After a minute or so in the tank, Dalesandro made the call.
The river completed the board with the and Dalesandro checked again. Stein slid out a tall stack of yellow T1,000 chips for a bet of 26,000. Dalesandro tanked for another minute, but this time gave it up and Stein won the pot.
Stein is a Las Vegas resident with over $3.3 million in live tournament earnings. His best year was in 2011 when he won over $2.15 million and also recorded the single largest score of his career. To start off that year, Stein took fourth in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for a cool $1 million. He then won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in the $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for over $420,000. This was just two weeks after he took third in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship that Amir Lehavot won for $264,651. Later on that year, Stein had another six-figure score by taking down the European Poker Tour San Remo €10,000 High Roller for $€223,000.
Over at Table 435 action folded around to Matt Stout on the button, who made it 15,000. The small blind then moved all in, a bet that would put Stout all in. The big blind folded and Stout took a few moments before completing the call and putting all of his chips at risk.
Stout:
Opponent:
A flop spelled disaster for Stout as he new he would need running cards to steal this hand away. A on the turn was it, and Stout was drawing dead. A meaningless fell for the river as Stout was eliminated.
Welcome back to the Rio for Day 2 of Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.
Each of the 262 players coming back today look to take home the $559,514 first-place prize money. We are 19 players away from the money bubble, and expect to see that burst pretty early on. We hope to get down to our final nine players, but with the massive field we might not make it.
Jessica Bertrand Hanna comes in today as our chip leader with 149,500. This isn't going to be a cakewalk though; with Victor Ramdin, Randy Lew, and Jonathan Aguiar in the field anything can happen. With a handful of strong professionals scattered around the Amazon room today, we expect some late-stage comebacks.
Play is set to begin at 1:00 PM, stay tuned with Pokernews for all the live coverage.
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flop giving Smith a huge advantage going to the turn and the river.
on the turn was not the card Stein needed, a jack and a jack only could save Stein. The 
on the river made it official and Stein's tournament life was over.
and Peters hit a king to take the lead. The turn 
and river 
provided no help for Tolbert from there and he lost the pot. At final count of the chips, Peters had 154,000 and Tolbert 133,500, which meant Tolbert was eliminated. His second all-time WSOP cash pocketed him $7,520.
board, Dalesandro checked and Stein bet 16,000. After a minute or so in the tank, Dalesandro made the call.
on the turn was it, and Stout was drawing dead. A meaningless 
fell for the river as Stout was eliminated.
