Action began with Chris Hunichen who opened with a raise to 2,000. He was called by Christian Rudolph from the cutoff and Farzad Bonyadi on the button.
The flop came down and Hunichen checked. Rudolph put out a bet of 3,500 and was called by both Bonyadi and Hunichen.
On the turn Hunichen checked for a second time. Rudolph put out a bet of 8,500 and Hunichen called for a second time.
The river card was the and after Hunichen checked for a third time. This time, Rudolph jammed his whole stack in the middle for a total of 37,500. From there, Hunichen went deep into the tank, pondering over the action of the hand.
"Will you show me if I fold?" Hunichen asked Rudolph, so which he received no response. While Hunichen was thinking, his table had just started to break. "We're breaking right?" He asked. "Will you show me if I show you?" Hunichen asked again. Still he received no response.
Eventually, Hunichen called, but mucked his hand with Rudolph showed for a full house. With that, Hunichen cut out the chips for the double up and headed to his new table with significantly less chips.
Guiseppe Pantaleo opened to 2,200 from under the gun, before a short-stacked Phillippe Ktorza moved all in for his last 4,100 from middle position. The action folded around to Pantaleo who made the call.
Pantaleo:
Ktorza:
The board ran out to see Ktorza flop a set, as he doubled back up to 10,600.
From middle position Jose Nadal opened to 2,500. Action folded all the way around to Timothy Reilly, one of the chip leaders from Day 1, in the big blind who opted to reraised to 6,000. With action back on Nadal he moved his whole stack in the middle and Reilly called quickly.
Nadal:
Reilly:
The flop came down giving Nadal the instant lead. He was able to hold up through the turn () and river () and that gave him a much needed double up here at the start of the day.
The hand started with Johnny Lodden opening to 2,000 from under the gun, and finding a call from the player on the button, as well as Artur Koren on the big blind. The flop came down , as the action checked around to the player on the button, who bet out 3,600. Only Lodden made the call, as the fell on the turn. Both were happy to check, before doing the same, when the completed the board.
Lodden turned over his for a pair of eights, which was enough to take down the pot.
When we got to the table, Dan O'Brien had his stack in the middle and was at risk against one other player. O'Brien was holding against the other player's .
The flop came down which was safe for O'Brien. The turn card was the which gave no sweat for O'Brien who just needed to dodge a king or an ace on the river. The dealer put out the on the river and that was good for O'Brien to notch a double up early here on Day 2.
Dominik Nitsche and another player had all the money in the middle and were off to see a flop. Nitche was holing against the other players .
The board ran out making Nitsche's kings the best hand. It was determined after the hand that Nitsche had the covering stack, thus eliminating the other player from the tournament and shipping all his chips over to Nitsche.