Both Daniel DiPasquale and Anthony Zinno started with short stacks into Day 2 and failed to run up their stacks, bowing out on separate tables. As a result, the first table in the Brasilia room broke and many more will follow in the hours to come.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Murat Tulek raised to 6,500 from under the gun, a player in middle position called, and Eric Hicks moved all in from the button for approximately 20,000. Tulek made a pot-sized four-bet, the middle-position player folded, and Hicks and Tulek tabled their hands.
Eric Hicks: 
Murat Tulek: 
Tulek had the preflop advantage with his aces, and Hicks needed help from the deck in order to preserve his tournament life. The board ran out 
, which wasn't what Hicks wanted to see, and Tulek took the pot to stack Hicks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
155,000 | 155,000 |
|
Busted |
Picking up the action on the 
flop, Sam Trickett bet 7,000 out of the small blind and Hani Mio was the only caller. The fell on the turn and Trickett bet again, making it 12,000 to go this time around. Mio called once more and faced a third barrel worth 17,000 on the 
river. That proved to be too much and Mio sent his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000 | -18,300 |
|
130,000 | 24,000 |
The cards of Dan Shak in the big blind were already in the muck while the board showed 
. David "ODB" Baker was counting out his remaining stack of 29,000 with 
for two pair tabled. According to Baker, he raised to 5,000 on the button and called the three-bet of Shak for 16,000.
The remaining stack went in after the flop and Shak tabled 
to see his pair of aces end up second best.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
210,000 | -45,100 |
|
91,000 | 46,000 |
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Players are in their seats and cards are in the air.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 0
Day 2 of Event #54: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship begins at 12 noon. There are 186 players returning to the felt to battle it out for the championship bracelet and the first-place prize of $938,732.
The chip leader going into Day 2 is Sorin Drajneanu who bagged 469,200. Drajneanu is followed in the counts by Andjelko Andrejevic, with 369,400 and Arvi Vainionkulma with 320,200.
Many other notables remain in the field including defending champion Brandon Shack-Harris (301,200), Johnny Lodden (270,000), Eddie Ochana (269,000), Dan Shak (255,100), Scott Clements (224,200) and Jeff Madsen (219,800).
When play resumes, players will play 10 60-minute levels and get a 15-minute break every two levels. Dinner break will take place after Level 6, around 6:30 p.m, and will be 60 minutes long. Play will begin with Level 11 and 1,000/2,000 blinds.
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Stick with PokerNews to see which of the remaining players will make a deep run at the title. Here is a look at the start-of-day-2 seating chart and chip counts:
| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasilia | 706 | 1 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 38,000 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 2 | Yuriy Boyko | Ireland | 109,600 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 3 | Yan Shing Tsang | China | 204,000 | 102 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 4 | Ben Hamnett | United States | 97,000 | 49 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 5 | John O'Shea | Ireland | 30,000 | 15 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 6 | Luis Velador Jr, | United States | 138,200 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 7 | Alexey Makarov | Russia | 122,200 | 61 |
| Brasilia | 706 | 8 | Scott Baumstein | United States | 37,200 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 1 | Oliver Weis | Germany | 85,800 | 43 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 2 | Tony Cousineau | United States | 90,000 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 3 | Brent Roberts | United States | 75,800 | 38 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 4 | Loren Klein | United States | 89,600 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 5 | James Egerer | United States | 144,800 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 7 | Michail Karapanos | Greece | 79,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 707 | 8 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 182,900 | 91 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 1 | Melad Marji | United States | 90,000 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 2 | Brock Parker | United States | 119,900 | 60 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 3 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 129,200 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 4 | Daniel DiPasquale | United States | 13,900 | 7 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 5 | Rory Rees-Brennan | Ireland | 80,000 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 6 | Bogdan Capitan | Romania | 199,800 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 7 | Nghia Le | United States | 182,000 | 91 |
| Brasilia | 708 | 8 | Millard Hale | United States | 167,700 | 84 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 1 | Patrick Liang | United States | 35,200 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 2 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | United States | 85,600 | 43 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 3 | Ian O'Hara | United States | 106,400 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 4 | Jaspal Brar | Canada | 144,000 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 5 | Jefferey Foster | United States | 106,400 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 7 | Florent Aubert | France | 111,100 | 56 |
| Brasilia | 709 | 8 | Isaac Baron | United States | 114,300 | 57 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 1 | Alex Manzano | Chile | 88,100 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 2 | Eric Hicks | United States | 25,500 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 3 | Jason Beckman | United States | 21,000 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 4 | Jim McCrink | United States | 76,100 | 38 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 5 | Murat Tolek | Germany | 159,500 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 6 | Shaome Yang | United States | 119,300 | 60 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 7 | Sean Remz | United States | 96,400 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 710 | 8 | The Nguyen | United States | 117,000 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 1 | Jerome Evans | Germany | 108,400 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 2 | Paul Leckey | Ireland | 36,800 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 3 | Micah Smith | United States | 25,000 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 4 | Kurt Fruchtman | Canada | 52,700 | 26 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 5 | Justin Bonomo | United States | 160,500 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 6 | Dau Ly | United States | 58,000 | 29 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 7 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 39,400 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 711 | 8 | Alberto Fonseca | Croatia | 220,000 | 110 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 1 | Jon Hoellein | United States | 83,500 | 42 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 2 | Gionni Demers | United States | 138,600 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 3 | Leif Force | United States | 76,100 | 38 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 4 | Sorin Drajneanu | United States | 469,700 | 235 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 5 | John Monnette | United States | 128,800 | 64 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 6 | Miltiadis Kypiakides | United States | 229,000 | 115 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 7 | Eric Cloutier | Ireland | 93,000 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 712 | 8 | Ryan Lenaghan | United States | 92,300 | 46 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 1 | Jonas Entin | United States | 145,100 | 73 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 2 | Travis Pearson | United States | 118,700 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 3 | Casey Carroll | United States | 70,800 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 4 | Samay Parikh | United States | 44,100 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 5 | Aleksei Altshuller | Russia | 188,600 | 94 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 6 | Cole Jackson | United States | 61,700 | 31 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 7 | Bobby Oboodi | United States | 132,600 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 713 | 8 | Michael Mcguire | United States | 78,200 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 1 | Vivian Truglio Saliba | United States | 129,400 | 65 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 2 | Andjelko Andrejevic | United States | 369,400 | 185 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 3 | Gordon Vayo | United States | 33,000 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 4 | Anton Bertillson | Sweden | 36,600 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 5 | Dermot Blain | Ireland | 214,000 | 107 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 6 | John Crisp | United States | 77,900 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 7 | Jonathan Zarin | United States | 123,400 | 62 |
| Brasilia | 714 | 8 | Nikolai Sears | United States | 135,800 | 68 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 1 | David Paredes | United States | 85,000 | 43 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 2 | Dapreesch Scates | United States | 39,100 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 3 | Ioannis Angelou Konstas | United States | 78,100 | 39 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 4 | Arvi Vainionkulma | Finland | 320,200 | 160 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 5 | Chris Lee | United States | 138,500 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 6 | Ryan Miller | United States | 168,400 | 84 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 7 | Robert Park | United States | 189,600 | 95 |
| Brasilia | 715 | 8 | Brian Jordan | United States | 82,000 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 1 | Orlando Romero | United States | 90,300 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 2 | Ola Amundsgard | Norway | 116,900 | 58 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 3 | Andrew Liporace | United States | 93,000 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 4 | Mike Gorodinsky | United States | 150,200 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 5 | Bruce Yamron | United States | 125,300 | 63 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 6 | Timothy Batow | United States | 172,200 | 86 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 7 | Shaun Deeb | United States | 144,600 | 72 |
| Brasilia | 716 | 8 | Johnny Lodden | Norway | 270,000 | 135 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 1 | Andrew Watson | United States | 87,600 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 2 | Liam O'Donoghue | Ireland | 72,200 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 3 | Brandon Allen | United States | 92,100 | 46 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 4 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 105,600 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 5 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | 179,800 | 90 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 6 | Corey Hochman | United States | 247,500 | 124 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 7 | Junayed Khan | United States | 75,500 | 38 |
| Brasilia | 717 | 8 | Tommy Le | United States | 210,800 | 105 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 1 | Eddie Ochana | United States | 269,000 | 135 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 3 | Dan Shak | United States | 255,100 | 128 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 4 | Henri Koivisto | Finland | 89,900 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 5 | Andrew Brown | United States | 90,000 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 6 | Cyrus Partow | United States | 192,300 | 96 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 7 | Camilo Manrique | Canada | 71,200 | 36 |
| Brasilia | 718 | 8 | David "ODB" Baker | United States | 45,000 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 1 | Michael Krasienko | United States | 160,200 | 80 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 2 | Daniel Weinman | United States | 132,000 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 3 | John Riordan | United States | 200,600 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 4 | Alper Kostem | Turkey | 66,200 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 5 | Christopher Sensoli | United States | 142,000 | 71 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 6 | Aaron Overton | United States | 25,500 | 13 |
| Brasilia | 719 | 8 | Brandon Shack-Harris | United States | 301,200 | 151 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 1 | Scott Davies | Canada | 40,500 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 2 | Jack Duong | United States | 75,300 | 38 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 3 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 34,600 | 17 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 4 | Benjamin Eilers | United States | 80,800 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 5 | Michael Kamran | United States | 190,000 | 95 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 6 | Jerry Atkins | United States | 81,100 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 720 | 7 | Randel Brown | United States | 250,400 | 125 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 1 | Gavin Polone | United States | 81,200 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 2 | Jesse Yaginuma | United States | 137,100 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 3 | Patrick Mahoney | United States | 264,300 | 132 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 4 | Daniel Geeng | United States | 103,700 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 5 | Christian Harder | United States | 170,200 | 85 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 6 | John Racener | United States | 66,900 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 7 | Jianguo Ruan | Australia | 89,800 | 45 |
| Brasilia | 721 | 8 | Garrett Greer | United States | 56,600 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 1 | Norbert Szecsi | Hungary | 95,700 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 2 | Kory Kilpatrick | United States | 137,500 | 69 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 3 | Robert Cowen | United Kingdom | 203,300 | 102 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 4 | David Len Ashby | United States | 139,800 | 70 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 5 | Jarred Graham | Germany | 109,200 | 55 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 6 | Arthur Morris | United States | 57,200 | 29 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 7 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 97,800 | 49 |
| Brasilia | 722 | 8 | Sean Kapul | United States | 38,200 | 19 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 1 | Howard Millian | United States | 157,400 | 79 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 2 | Mosley Dominique | United States | 165,000 | 83 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 3 | Kevin Eyster | United States | 114,300 | 57 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 4 | Grazvydas Kontautas | Lithuania | 56,300 | 28 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 5 | Jean Ferreira | Canada | 93,000 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 6 | Mark Scacewater | United States | 52,000 | 26 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 7 | Connor Drinan | United States | 100,400 | 50 |
| Brasilia | 723 | 8 | Ryan Yearsley | United States | 35,800 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 1 | Sajan Thomas | United States | 103,200 | 52 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 2 | Christopher Frank | Ireland | 94,300 | 47 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 3 | Sean Rafael | United States | 194,700 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 4 | Jeff Madsen | United States | 219,800 | 110 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 5 | Ryan D'Angelo | United States | 80,900 | 40 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 6 | Sebastian Bastian | Bahamas | 43,200 | 22 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 7 | Ryan Day | United States | 88,000 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 724 | 8 | Eoghan O'Dea | Ireland | 127,200 | 64 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 1 | Matt Stout | United States | 53,800 | 27 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 3 | Ben Lamb | United States | 189,200 | 95 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 4 | Mike Sexton | United States | 73,500 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 5 | Jason DeWitt | United States | 150,200 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 6 | Fredrick Andersson | Sweden | 118,000 | 59 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 7 | Scott Eskenazi | United States | 74,200 | 37 |
| Brasilia | 725 | 8 | Maxim Babko | Canada | 149,900 | 75 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 1 | Chris George | United States | 70,100 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 2 | Ben Yu | United States | 67,000 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 3 | Max Lehmanski | Germany | 27,700 | 14 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 4 | Daniel Harmetz | United States | 131,000 | 66 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 5 | Fernando Brunca | Brazil | 68,200 | 34 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 6 | Brad Ruben | United States | 95,700 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 7 | Daniel Reijmer | Netherlands | 82,600 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 726 | 8 | Scott Clements | United States | 224,200 | 112 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 1 | Usman Siddique | United Kingdom | 108,000 | 54 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 2 | Ralph Perry | United States | 82,300 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 3 | Mattias De Smidt | Ireland | 140,600 | 70 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 4 | Igor Sharaskin | Russia | 46,200 | 23 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 5 | Toby Lewis | United Kingdom | 49,400 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 6 | Cylus Watson | United States | 87,200 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 7 | Molichisa Ngeth | United States | 115,200 | 58 |
| Brasilia | 727 | 8 | [Removed:321] Abediarani | United States | 65,000 | 33 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 1 | Sam Trickett | United Kingdom | 106,000 | 53 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 2 | Alex Venovski | United States | 82,500 | 41 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 3 | Jonathan Abdellatif | Belgium | 22,700 | 11 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 4 | Lance Howard | United States | 50,000 | 25 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 5 | Frank Williams | United States | 102,500 | 51 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 6 | Hani Mio | United States | 193,300 | 97 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 7 | Evan Krentzman | United States | 69,400 | 35 |
| Brasilia | 728 | 8 | Robert Angotta | United States | 36,400 | 18 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 1 | Kristopher Tong | United States | 300,800 | - |
| Brasilia | 729 | 2 | David Callaghan | Ireland | 205,000 | 103 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 3 | Zeik Tuit | Ireland | 57,400 | 29 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 4 | Quan Zhou | China | 199,800 | 100 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 5 | [Removed:4] | Germany | 40,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 6 | Philip Wiszowaty | United States | 39,000 | 20 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 7 | Alex Bolotin | United States | 88,900 | 44 |
| Brasilia | 729 | 8 | Alan Reyf | United States | 81,000 | 41 |
Event #54: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship
Day 2 Started
