Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Started
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Day Two Set To Take Off
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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.
Level: 12
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Lindley Busts Woods
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
Busted |
Raskin Rakes in Chips
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
140,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
Lerner Holds
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
42,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
Hand-for-Hand Play
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
We are now at hand-for-hand play, awaiting the elimination of one more player. Once that happens all players remaining in the field will have made the money.
Bubble Doubles
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
While hand-for-hand play goes on, a few players have gotten their money in, but doubled to stay alive.
From the cutoff seat, Jeff Keena raised to 3,600 and was all in. He was called by Andrew Spears in the big blind with the 
. Keena held the 
. The flop came down 
and Keena was excited about his chances, but Spears did have a gutshot straight draw.
The turn was the 
and Keena, who was standing and leaning anxiously over the table, popped upright and slapped his hands together in celebration. Still, Spears wasn't dead yet and could hit a nine to bust Keena.
The river completed the board with the 
and Keena officially doubled. Some of the table commented about how he prematurely celebrated and it could have come back to bite him.
"So what, I had one card to come and was happy?" said Keena. "I can't celebrate, heck," he joked. The table laughed and then Keena exaggerated his celebration by yelling "Yeah!" and slamming his fists on the table in a joking manner.
On another table, Kevin Funderburk was all in with the 
against Jason Lee's . Funderburk was all in from the big blind for 3,000 total and fell behind after the 
flop fell. The turn 
paired the board and gave Funderburk a couple more outs before the 
landed on the river and doubled him up with a straight.
We are in the Money!
Level 12
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
It looks like Pratik Ghatge is our bubble boy for the day. Ghatge open pushed recently while we were hand-for-hand with , his opponent snap-called him with . It looked like hand-for-hand play was going to continue for a while longer, but an on the river sent Ghatge home with no money.
Once it was announced that the bubble had burst the remaining field cheered in unison.
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200