With 1,078 players to be paid from the Day 2c field and 1,080 still left in it, we've gone hand for hand. It's quite something to see a huge room of dealers all standing up to indicate they're ready for the next hand like a commune of monochrome meerkats.
Two minutes will be taken off the clock for every hand dealt.
Several all-in-and-a-calls are happening across the Pavilion White and Black sections with Shaun Deeb being one of the players to find himself at risk. Deeb was all in for his final 79,000 holding and received a call from a player with . The board came down to keep the 2018 WSOP Player of the Year in the race.
Kevin Hong was less fortunate as his succumbed to his opponent's during a rather brutal rundown. It took Hong a few moments to process it before he strolled out empty-handed.
Three players busted at the same time to burst the bubble on Day 2C. Dmitry Levin, Shmuel Maman and a third player lost their chips during the hand-for-hand phase. They'll chop the 1,078th place prize money three-way.
During the hand-for-hand phase, three players bowed out at the same time. In the first hand, A player raised to 30,000 in middle position, Jeff Coffey three-bet to 80,000 in the big blind, Guerra four-bet shoved all in for 307,000 and Coffey called after tanking for a minute.
All-in player:
Jeff Coffey:
The was the first card to pop up, followed by to end the all-in player's bid with a story of how his aces got cracked on the bubble.
Shmuel Maman was the second one at risk, trying to survive with his last few crumbs against John Utley, who's behind one of the biggest stacks in the room. Maman was ahead with the against but found himself drawing dead after the turn when the board came down .
Dmitry Levin was the third and final player to leave the area. Down to just 5,000 in chips, he was all in with in the small blind. The big blind had and found a trey along the way to eliminate Levin.
As a result, all three players will chop the 1,078th place money and play resumes as normal.
Saya Ono was also in the precarious position of being all-in and covered on the bubble, but holding on a board, her palms can't have been too sweaty. She, like all all-ins at that period, kept her hand face-down until instructed. Her opponent Chris Childers finally saw the bad news and lost the pot which was a chunky one (480,000 in it before Ono's river shove).
Ramon Reyes is in jubilant form after getting through the bubble with a pretty short stack. Talking a happy blue streak he moved all-in in early position for 80,000, called in position by Chris Childers and one other player. "Come on, triple up one time!" came the request from Reyes.
On the flop, Childers saw off the other player and tabled to Reyes' . The came on the turn, however, and the on the river brought the wished for double through.
The very next hand, however, Reyes ran pocket queens straight into the pocket aces of Lucinda Gelinas who dropped him right back to where he started.
Two short stacks are less short after finding aces with higher kickers vs. larger stacked opponents. First up Ted Lang in the big blind picked up when the small blind had set him in with . He called quickly and the board kept his hand ahead.
The very next hand, Andrew Goodwin moved all-in for 39,000 in total after an under the gun raise to 23,000. It was not the under the gun player, however, who made the call, but another late position player who four-bet to 56,000, leaving him heads up with Goodwin.
Goodwin:
Mid-position:
The flop made pairs for both kickers: , and the turn and river changed nothing.
A rail of Australians (in full team shirt and gear) is supporting their countryman George Lewkowski in Day 2c of the Big 50 and they're having a high-octane Level 16. At the beginning of the level, their man in the field was down to two big blinds (according to them) and four big blinds (according to his table), but either way, what followed was an amazing comeback.
Under the gun just after the bubble, Lewkowski picked up pocket aces and a first double through. Then a huge cooler saw , , and dealt out in the same hand. While the betting took off, Lewkowski (with the pocket kings) was all-in again; the jacks folded preflop. The flop brought a king and a queen, leaving Lewkowski with top set and a more than triple-up.
Finally, the hand that really got his table talking. A player moved all-in with and when it folded round to Lewkowski, he asked, "All in?" as a query. But it didn't sound like that to the dealer or floor who made the ruling that Lewkowski had announced that he himself was all-in (and covered). He was made to put his newly-formed stack over the line with . A six on the board delivered him a stack of 600000, from 30,000 - in just four hands.