Brian Hastings completed with the up and Mike Leah called with his . Hastings then bet 2,000 when he received the on fourth, and Leah called. Hastings proceeded to check-call a bet on fifth before both players checked on sixth when their boards equalized.
Leah then bet 4,000 on seventh and Hastings quickly folded. "How did I find that card on seventh?" Leah asked as he flashed the .
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fired a bet into a almost 30,000-chip pot after the river and Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu sat contemplating the call.
Grospellier: / /
Negreanu: / /
Negreanu asked if he'd hit the river, but got no reply from Grospellier. Eventually he called and was shown for queens up. Negreanu mucked and Grospellier claimed he'd made the hand on fifth.
"I couldn't raise you," he said. "Your board was too scary."
Thus far 10 players have late registered on Day 2. Registration is open up until the start of Level 7, so we expect a few more will filter in over the next couple hours.
Mike Gorodinsky became the first to fall in just the first few hands here on Day 2.
Playing one of the big bet games he got it all in preflop with against Scott Seiver's . The flop all but did Gorodinsky in and although he picked up outs on the turn, Gordinsky was out after the river.
Mike Leah got off to a great start in 2014, but has his momentum carried over to the WSOP? We talked about that and more before the start of play on Day 2 of the $50,000 Poker Players' Championship.
The $50,000 Players Championship is a five-day poker marathon in which the best players in the world face off against each other playing an eight-game rotation. Matt Glantz, a two-time final tablist, leads the way after Day 1, just like in 2012 when he also stood atop the leader board heading into Day 2.
The second day of play looks to be an exciting one, as players are still able to enter this tournament up until 4:00 p.m.. We're expecting to see legends of the game like Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, and John Juanda enter while Vanessa Selbst, Dan Shak, Michael Glick, Phil Galfond and Sergii Baranov were already eliminated during the first day of play.
Glantz got a hold of the chip lead early on after sending Selbst to the rail in a big no-limit hold'em pot, and he managed to dominate his table with Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and David "ODB" Baker the rest of the night. Dylan Linde, a first-time player of the $50K, currently sits in second place followed by Richard Ashby and Shaun Deeb.
Other notable big stacks include Frenchman Alexandre Luneau, Ismael Bojang from Germany, and Britain's defending champ Matthew Ashton. One spot behind Ashton we see the only two-time winner of this tournament, Michael Mizrachi. Current WSOP Player of the Year leader George Danzer sits just a tad below the starting stack while John Racener, Mike Gorodinsky, Nick Schulman, and Phil Ivey are looking to win some pots early on to stay in contention.
Play will resume at 2:00 p.m. local time and players will play five more levels of 100 minutes each. Join us then for continuing coverage of the Event #46: $50,000 Poker Players Championship.