Derek Lerner just called us over to inform the Pokernews team how he just won a recent pot. Apparently he knocked out an opponent after his bested a medium stack's
Lerner now sits with over 40,000 and looks to build more ammo to make a deep run here today.
With a exposed in the middle of the felt, an unknown player fired out 19,000. Micah Raskin was the only other player in the hand and took his time before opting to raise to 40,000. Raskin's opponent's response was to place a bet that would put Raskin all in. Raskin made the call quickly and cards were turned.
Raskin:
Opponent:
Raskin held a full house, eights over jacks while all his opponent could muster up was three of a kind jacks. Raskin was awarded the pot and now sits with about 140,000.
Christina Lindley has busted actor James Woods. Her held up against Woods' to send him to the rail. According to Lindley, there was a raise and then Woods flatted before Lindley reraised all in. The original raiser folded, but Woods called all in and lost.
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.