Abu Hamza Bin Khalek was a bigger stack early in the day at his table and has since been surpassed by Chin Wei Lim. The stack of Bin Khalek took a toll but he just bounced back after knocking out Bruce Little.
With the cards already flipped over, Little was at risk with K♣Q♠ versus A♠K♦ and the A♣9♣8♥K♠6♠ runout sealed his fate.
There was a raise from the hijack and Eli Elezra just called in the cutoff. David "Bakes" Baker shipped all in for 34,000 on the button which got both the hijack and Elezra to call.
The flop came 10♠10♥6♦ and the hijack led out with a bet of 18,000. Elezra quickly called and the 8♠ landed on the turn. Both players checked to the 6♥ on the river and then checked once more.
The hijack turned over A♣K♠ for ace-high but Elezra had that beat with 9♠9♥. Baker could only muster 7♠7♥ for a smaller pair and headed to the rail in the last level of Day 2abc.
A player in early position opened to 4,000 and it folded to the hijack who made the call. The rest of the table got out of the way and Juan Pardo tossed in chips for the call from the big blind.
The flop came 6♥3♣2♠ and Pardo checked to the initial raiser who bet 6,000. The hijack quickly folded and Pardo put in a check-raise to 18,000. The early position player made the call and the 2♦ hit the turn.
Pardo took a few seconds before tossing out a bet of 25,000 and his opponent went in the tank. After close to 30 seconds, the early position player folded and Pardo scored the pot.
It had been a rough day at the tables for Julien Martini so far as he lost a big portion of his stack. The Frenchman was just involved in a heads-up pot with Stanislav Urodlivchenko and check-raised the J♠8♠4♣ flop from 4,000 to 16,000. Urodlivchenko came along to the 10♠ turn but snap-folded when Martini bet 20,000.
A player from under the gun raised to 6,000 and the early position player called as well as Ronnie Bardah in middle position while everyone else folded including Michael Lech in the big blind.
The flop came out 6♣3♥4♥ and the under the gun player moved all in for 62,000 which saw only Bardah call.
Opponent: A♠A♥
Ronnie Bardah: 3♣3♦
The board ran out 5♠10♥ and the WSOP bracelet winner took down the pot.
In a three-way pot with a flop 7♣7♥2♠ and around 65,000 in the pot, Andrea Buonocore sent 20,000 from the small blind and Patrick Loughman raised to 50,000. Ami Alibay got out of the way and after a long thinking, Buonocore also folded.
The button raised to 4,000, finding Andrew Denick in the small blind who three-bet to 12,000. The button called.
Denick continued for 7,000 on a board of 9♦K♠7♠, to which his opponent called.
The turn fell the 2♣ and Denick didn't slow down as he committed an additional 26,000 chips to the pot. The button elected to see a river.
Denick checked at the sight of the 4♥, as did his opponent on the button. Denick was first to show A♣Q♦ for just ace-high, which was good enough to see his opponent's card sent to the muck as he claimed this pot.
Benjamin Spragg has joined the Red section of the Horseshoe Event Center late on Day 2abc. He got involved in a pot when he raised to 4,500 from early position and received calls from players in the hijack and the big blind.
The flop of K♥J♦5♣ got checked through and so did the 9♠ turn. On the 2♦ river, Spragg was the one to eventually bet 7,000 chips and the player in the hijack called.
Spragg showed his ace-high with A♥4♥ but the hijack played a pair with 7♠7♥ and won the pot from the British poker streamer.
As recounted to PokerNews from the players at his table, Andrew Moreno has recently been eliminated from the main event.
Moreno reportedly got his last chips in as a short stack with QxJx against Justin Coliny, who had him out-kicked with KxQx. Neither player connected with the board and Coliny secured the knockout with king-queen high.
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