We watched Adam Levy as he was involved in a three way pot in the small blind. He saw a flop of . Levy checked as did his first opponent. His second opponent in late position bet out for 150. Levy was the only caller. The turn came the . With this card Levy's opponent felt the need and bet 350. Levy undeterred by the bet called again.
On the river of the Levy checked a third time. His opponent looked at all of Levy's remaining chips but tossed in 850. Levy thought for a moment but decided the price was too high and elected to fold. Levy had some work to do after the hand as he only had 2,450.
On a | | board we saw Nick Binger carefully check from the big blind. Binger acted out of the under-the-gun position and his opponent was sitting on the button. Binger saw that 800 was asked of him as his opponent had tossed in a 500 and three 100 chips. Binger quickly called but those chips he would not see back anytime soon. His opponent tabled for top pair and top kicker and Binger had to muck.
The first level is done for, the second one has just started. The players are now playing 25/50. If a player still has the starting stack of 4,500, they still have 90 big blinds this level.
Shannon Shorr played the $111,111 One Drop High Roller yesterday but busted out before the end of the day. He's back at it today, this time in a tournament with a slightly smaller buy-in. Also in attendance is Belgian Team Pro Matthias De Meulder seated in the same room as his twin brother Christophe De Meulder. Dutch old school players Govert Metaal and Ton Kleijnen are competing, braceletwinner Athanasios Polychronopoulos is in the Silver section and two time bracelet runner-up Joe Serock is seated in the gold section.
After an opponent raised up preflop, Steven van Zadelhoff defended his blind. The flop came . Van Zadelhoff wanted to be the aggressor and led out for 350. His opponent called.
The turn came the . Van Zadelhoff bet out big for 750. This bet was big enough to get his opponent off the hand. Van Zadelhoff was off to a good start with up to 5,700.
Bracelet winner Jason Duval was already down to 1,500 in chips when we saw him playing a hand. From the big blind he checked on a flop. All four players checked eventually and the fell on the turn. The small blind, Duval in the big blind and another player checked again, but a player in late position bet 75. The small blind folded but Duval and the other player made the call. The hit the river and both players checked to the late-position better. He bet 250 this time and Duval was the only one calling. Duval had to muck as his opponent showed a flopped set of treys: .