Khiem Nguyen opened the action with a min raise and then called the all in of an opponent for about 10,000. It was a coin flip with versus and the provided the necessary help. We also caught some bigger stacks and three more notables in the purple and orange section.
Bart Lybaert and Loni Harwood are sitting next to each other in the Amazon Tan section. The Belgian was already up to more than 100,000 but then lost pocket queens versus preflop to fall back a bit.
Jason Wheeler raised and got two callers with one opponent in the blinds defending . Wheeler spiked the flop where he cbet for 5,000 with about as much behind. On the turn the opponent in the blinds put him all in and Wheeler happily called with for trips. The meaningless river completed the board and Wheeler raked in the chips.
George Danzer was all in preflop for his last 10,700 and was called by Darwin Giles one seat over. Matt Jarvis raised another 12,800 on top and Giles called that to see the . He instantly moved all in and Jarvis called on the button for just under 20,000 with . Danzer turned over and Giles had .
Turn:
River:
Giles knocks out two of the big names and is up to a very healthy stack now.
"You know, I keep calling short stacks with the worse hand and win." That was the reply from Khien Nguyen after my puzzled look when noticing his stack.
Steven Watts was not as fortunate and he has been eliminated. We already seen him move all in twice before on a short stack though.
They are still dropping like flies and all tables from the Pavilion are now done and dusted. The screens have been updated and show 906 players remaining, we are thus just a mere 30 eliminations away from the money after about two hours into Day 2.
Mike Sexton defended his big blind and then check-raised the flop from 2,800 to 7,000. His opponent in late position called and then folded to the 10,000 bet of Sexton after the turn. They are both pretty much even stacked now and so is fellow PartyPoker Pro Jamie Kerstetter.