Patrick Truong Leads Final 20 Chasing $262,501
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Patrick Truong ended the day as chipleader on 1,130,000 while Michael Amato is second with 1,111,000 and Ryan Hughes finished in third bagging up 1,040,000.
The three Americans are the only players from the surviving 20 to return with over a million chips.
Cards were in the air at Noon on Tuesday, 4th July as 186 players from an original field of 1,750 resumed battle on Day 2 with Michael Telker leading the way.
All the players had returned in the money and there was a steady flow of eliminations. By the dinner break, 6 levels into the day, 54 players remained, and two-time WSOP bracelet winner Ryan Hughes has amassed a huge lead with 780,000 which was astonishingly over twice that of the player in second place at the time.
Some of the pre-dinner break casualties includedJames Akenhead, Parker “tonkaaa” Talbot, Ismael Bojang, Joe McKeehen, Joe Kuether, Dan Shak, Dong Guo, Will Givens and Marc Convey.
Soon after the hour-long break, Telker who seemed to be in control of his game all day steadily picking up chips, saw it go disastrously wrong. He shoved with top pair on the flop in a three-bet pot and ran into a set. Telker hung on for a while but the damage was done and he had little leverage left and was eliminated early in the next level.
Hughes managed to hold on to his chips but late surges saw Truong top the charts with Michael Amato close behind.
Other notables who bagged up include John Monnette (426,000), Andy Frankenberger (240,000) and Eddy Sabat (204,000).
Play resumes at 12 p.m. again and they will play down to a winner who will claim a WSOP gold bracelet and first-place money of $262,501.
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| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miranda | 627 | 3 | Rulah Divine | United States | 943,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 5 | Randal Sklar | United States | 100,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 6 | Thomas Fuller | United States | 110,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 7 | Yorane Kerignard | France | 205,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 8 | Edward Hislop | Canada | 163,000 |
| Miranda | 627 | 9 | John Monnette | United States | 426,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 1 | Jeffrey Silverstein | United States | 97,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 2 | Liang Xu | China | 302,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 3 | Michael Amato | United States | 1,111,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 4 | Ryan Hughes | United States | 1,040,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 5 | Eddy Sabat | United States | 204,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 7 | John Green | United States | 371,000 |
| Miranda | 636 | 9 | Patrick Truong | United States | 1,130,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 3 | Michael Rocco | United States | 507,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 4 | Robert Koss | United States | 129,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 5 | Fabio Felice Cudia | Bulgaria | 297,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 6 | Yunsheng Sun | China | 687,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 7 | Sean Hegarty | United States | 90,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 8 | Martins Kleins | Latvia | 600,000 |
| Miranda | 637 | 9 | Andy Frankenberger | United States | 240,000 |
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, and Rocco extended his lead into a commanding one. The turn was the 
, and Telker picked up a straight draw. The river was the 
, and Telker was eliminated.
. Waldron bet 50,000, Telker went all in, and Rocco called with a smaller stack. Waldron looked taken aback by this turn of events. He counted down his stack, and he had just a smidgen over 70,000 left. He sighed, put his chips in, and immediately regretted it when he saw what he feared.
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, well behind Tatalovich's two kings. The flop was king-high, giving Tatalovich a set, and Convey was unable to improve, sending him to the rail just before the dinner break.
with about 10,000 on the pot already, Marc Convey checked from the big blind. Joseph Iarussi was in the cutoff and bet 3,600. Convey thought for a moment and reached into his stack to put out a check-raise to 9,500. Iarussi wasted no time and called.
for the nut straight, and Iarussi lifted his cards in the air, only visible to a few people to his left, and then mucked them.
