Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and the 2013 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of the Event #46: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low 8-or-Better!
Yesterday saw 435 players spread throughout the floor of the Amazon Room, and when the dust settled, only 139 players remained all eyeing the money-paying top 45 before making a run at the bracelet and $279,094 first prize.
Matt Woodward bagged an impressive 98,700 in chips and is one of two players in the 90,000-chip range with Cai Zhen (95,300) being the other.
Ari Engel also sits in the top ten while the likes of Gavin Smith (60,500), Ali Eslami (55,600), Amnon Filippi (47,000), Leif Force (43,300), John Cernuto (42,600), Andrey Zaichenko (31,500), Eric Baldwin (28,900), Chip Jett (28,700), Joe Hachem (25,600), Mike Matusow (22,000), Jeff Madsen (17,200) and a host of other notables still remain.
Here is how the top ten chip stacks sit:
Rank
Player
Chip Count
1
Matt Woodward
98,700
2
Cai Zhen
95,300
3
Richard Sklar
87,700
4
Michael Sanders
79,500
5
Joseph Silverman
78,300
6
Rodrigo Caprioli
72,600
7
Paul Francoi Tedeschi
70,800
8
Ari Engel
64,200
9
Nicholas Verkaik
62,300
10
Thomas Keller
60,600
Play is set to begin at 2:00 p.m. local time with the PokerNews live reporting team providing continuous live updates of every scoop, quarter and chop live from the 2013 World Series of Poker and Event #46!
The Rio is buzzing with the $111,111 One Drop High Rollers event, and the crew takes a look at some of the big names in the field. They also do a little fantasy draft for the tournament with the Executive Director of the World Series of Poker, Ty Stewart.
At the start of the day "Miami" John Cernuto was in the middle of the pack chips wise, but as of late, Cernuto has climbed to the top of the pack and he sits upon a stack of just around 100,000. That's good for one of the biggest stacks in the room just behind Zhen Cai and Paul Tedeschi.
David Baker opened with a raise from the cutoff only to have Scott Fischman three-bet all in for roughly 6,500. Baker made the call and the cards were tabled.
Baker:
Fischman:
The flop fell to see Baker flop a straight, and after the and landed on the turn and river, Fischman was sent crashing to the rail as Baker moved to roughly 50,000 in chips.
We came to the table with the action on Andreas Hoivold. Three players, one of whom was Tom Koral, had already moved all in and Hoivold had a decision to either call or fold after having already opened the pot.
Eventually, Hoivold turned up his and folded his hand. Tom Koral and the other two players all turned up their hands.
Koral:
Player 1:
Player 2:
The board ran out . At first it looked as if Koral would chop with the first player, as they each had three tens with an ace kicker, but on second glance, Koral had actually picked up a straight. There was no low possible and Koral doubled through player two, who had a covering stack while eliminating player one.
Zhen Cai and Matt Woodward finished first and second in the chip counts last night with Woodward leading by just a few thousand chips over Cai.
Today is a new day though, and thus their stories are changing. Cai has vaulted himself into the chip lead over the course of the day and he sits on a stack of over 200,000. Woodward on the other hand has sunk to the middle-low end of the pack and sits with just about 45,000. The two chip leaders from last night has certainly headed in different directions and it looks like Zhen Cai is coming out on top.
Mike Matusow found himself all in for his last 21,600 against Gary Bolden on a flop.
Matusow:
Bolden:
The turn and river ran out the and and Matusow doubled through.
The next hand he opened to 6,000 and Bolden made the call before Matusow bet pot - 15,600 - on the flop.
As Bolden was deliberating, Matusow stated, "get one more double up and you're all playing for 2nd boys!"
Bolden eventually mucked, and Matusow flashed his .
"I don't think I've had back-to-back ace-ace-deuce in my life!"
Matusow - who at one point early last level was down to just a few thousand courtesy of a river beat at the hands of Raymond Davis - has now built his stack back up to over 50,000 in chips.
After a raise and a call preflop, Manuel Bevand and Gavin Smith took to a flop heads up. On that flop of Smith had a bet of 13,200 in front of him and was waiting for Bevand to act.
"Look, you can either put it in and I'll call, or you can pay me $4 and I'll show you the hand after you fold," Smith told Bevand. Eventually, Bevand folded, but he had his headphones on so he couldn't hear Smith's deal.
"Pay me four American dollars and you can see this hand," Smith told Bevand, who shook his head and declined the offer.
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman wasn't having it though. "I'll pay you the $4," She told Smith.
Smith obliged and turned up his and Shulman reached into her purse and paid him $4.
"I just want everyone to know that I played trips," Smith said after the hand.
"I know what you wanted those for," she said. "You wanted more tip money for drinks!"
Everyone at the table laughed and Smith collected the pot and an extra $4.
In a battle of the blinds we found Matt Woodward and Vladimir Shchmelev committing 22,500 each before the flop was spread by the dealer.
Woodward checked and Shchmelev bet out 20,000 before Woodward called all-in for roughly that amount.
Woodward:
Shchmelev:
With Woodward holding a virtual lock on the high with his flopped full house, the on the turn would give Shchmelev a low.
However it would be the devastating on the river that would see the whole pot over to Shchmelev as Woodward would be forced to make a nasty exit to the rail after being hit with Shchmelev's one-outer.
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to see Baker flop a straight, and after the 
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landed on the turn and river, Fischman was sent crashing to the rail as Baker moved to roughly 50,000 in chips.
and folded his hand. Tom Koral and the other two players all turned up their hands.
. At first it looked as if Koral would chop with the first player, as they each had three tens with an ace kicker, but on second glance, Koral had actually picked up a straight. There was no low possible and Koral doubled through player two, who had a covering stack while eliminating player one.
flop.
and Matusow doubled through.
flop.
and Shulman reached into her purse and paid him $4.
