Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Geoffrey Sugerman moved all in for his remaining 75,000 stack from an early position and got a single call from Matthew Turrigiano in the big blind.
Geoffrey Sugerman: A♦J♥
Matthew Turrigiano: 4♥4♣
Sugerman was looking to improve and the 9♥A♠K♠ flop came his way, giving him top pair.
Sugerman held on the K♦ 2♣ runout, securing him the double.
As the action was picked, it appeared as Guillermo Rameriz raised to 32,000. Shawn Buchanan was all in before the flop for less and Yuta Iwasa had re-shoved and Rameriz folded.
Shawn Buchanan: J♥9♠
Yuta Iwas: 7♣7♠
A flop of 6♥9♦2♣ seemed to favor Buchanan but a 7♦ on the river spelled disaster for him as the river came the 6♣, Full house for Isawa. Buchanan was sent to the payout cage to collect as bad beats around the floor of the colossus were rampant.
Three players went to battle, with two at risk. The preflop ranks held and Alvin Gulke picked up a pile of chips.
Jared Russell: J♠10♠
Alvin Gulke: K♣K♦
Juan Maceiras Lapido: 10♦10♥
None of the players connected with the runout 8♦2♥4♦5♠A♣, giving Gulke the win with kings, and sending Russell home.
Some stack to watch across the field of entrants in the Day 2 of the Collosus.
Players were already heads up and on the river with a 3♦4♦4♠2♥2♣ board. The pot stood at 210,000.
Shekhar Deshpande bet 100,000 from the cutoff and Brandon Mueller raised to 230,000 from the button.
Deshpande took some time to think before making the fold.
Mueller scooped the pot and remarked, 'I have aces', before showing A♦A♠. The table talk continued into the next hand and Mueller questioned 'Nines?, Nines you call, Ace-Queen?'
Steven Mccartney made the all-in move on the flop of 8♦10♦5♣, and Yuchen Jiang was quick to call.
Steven Mccartney: Q♠Q♦
Yuchen Jiang: 10♠10♣
Jiang's set of tens held when the turn and river brought 2♥9♦.
Terry Olson went all in from the big blind and took a chunk of chips off the leader at the table Tam Nguyen.
Terry Olson: J♣J♥
Tam Nguyen's A♣K♦.
The jacks held on a board of 4♦4♥4♣2♣Q♣.
Level: 19
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Bryan Frantz was down to only a few big blinds when he was all in and at risk from the big blind. He was up against Yushan Shi to his direct left. Action was followed from the A♣2♦10♣ flop.
Bryan Frantz: 3♦J♦
Yushan Shi: K♥Q♣
The 10♠ turn and 7♠ river didn't change anything, and Shi was left to take the pot, eliminating Frantz early in the day.
On the next table across, Stephan Assmus was also all in and at risk of elimination from a middle position with only a short stack remaining. Mengqi Chen called Assmus in the cutoff, and the players went heads-up to the runout.
Stephan Assmus: 2♦2♥
Mengqi Chen: A♦Q♥
Assmus was hoping to hold, but Chen hit an ace on the 7♦6♦A♥ flop to put him ahead.
The 5♣ turn and 6♠ runout didn't save Assmus, and he was also eliminated in the first level of the day.