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The elimination of these players in the money leaves us with exactly 200 players.
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Players Left 1 / 2,502
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Eric Baldwin gave himself a shot to triple-up. All he needed to find was a pretty little queen and life would be sweet.
He was in early position with 
and up against a player in the next seat with 
, and a player in the big blind with 
.
All the chips went in pre flop and the board ran 
meaning Baldwin's two opponents chopped his stack between them.
Dan Smith was in middle position when he opened up the pot to 3,700. The player directly on his left made it 7,000 to go and the rest of the players got out of the way, while Smith called.
The 
flop would see Smith tap the table and his opponent oblige with a check behind. When the hit the turn, Smith again checked and this time his opponent went to bet. Before the player had finished reaching for his chips, Smith slammed down his 
hard onto the felt and the table laughed, with this apparently being a Table 431 in-joke. With that, the pot went away from Smith, while he still sits with a healthy stack.
Here are the next few players who have been sent home with a bit of cash for their time.
Timothy Good has doubled up through Nicky Evans with 
to .
We're not sure when the chips went in but there was 14,000 already in the middle before Good's remaining 35,800 were passed to the Brit.
The final board was 
.
The table looked in awe at Arthur Lim as he limped for 1,600 and left himself with just 2,100 behind. Michael Borovetz was in the small blind and made the call, while Isaac Haxton tapped in the big blind.
Flop: 
Borovetz was first to act and simply folded his cards, sending the action to Haxton. A flick of 2,100 chips meant Haxton was putting Lim to a decision. Lim called pretty quickly and the two players turned their hands over.
Lim:   |
Haxton:  |
Haxton had the flush draw and then on the 
turn, he had the flush. The meaningless on the river changed nothing and Lim was sent home, while Haxton raked in some chips.
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Francisco Riosvallejo tangled with Gabriel Nassif and the latter took age over every decision.
We caught up with the action on the 
flop and Riosvallejo led out for 6,600. Nassif took about two minutes and calmly slid in the call.
The turn landed as and Riosvallejo fired for 9,400. Another two minutes of thinking and stack counting went on from Nassif before he called again. The river was the 
and Riosvallejo checked.
Nassif took three minutes to dwell and and counted out every one of his chips that added up to 22,200. Finally he checked behind and was shown 
and folded.
"There are some players who wait to make hands before building pots, and there are some players who build pots while waiting for hands!" commented Layne Flack.
"I didn't say I was good," responded Riosvallejo.
"I didn't say you were bad!" Flack came back.
The eliminations have been flying fast since the bubble burst. Here are the player who have managed to go home with a minimum cash.
When we arrived at Table 439, Nicky Evans and the player to his direct left were involved in a hand with a flop showing 
. Evans was first to act and made it 3,600 to go. The player thought for quite some time before calling, which sent a 
onto the felt on the turn.
This time Evans led for 9,100 and again his opponent thought long and hard before calling. On the river, Evans slid out a stack of 26,000 in chips, which was enough to put his opponent all-in. The player then went into the tank for almost two minuted before letting his hand go to send the pot to Evans.
