Some of the biggest stars played this event, but although many of them have pitched up tent downstairs, we still have our fair share of big names up here:
Aleksander Vathne - 16 letters
Matthew McCullough - 17 letters
Charidimos Demetriou - 19 letters
Here are the chip counts for the featured TV table...
Seat 1: Gerald Kane - 72,600
Seat 2: Howard Lederer - 28,000
Seat 3: Lee Nelson - 38,000
Seat 4: Sam Norman - 18,000
Seat 5: Roland Isrealashvili - 102,000
Seat 6: Julius Colman - 35,600
Seat 7: Magnus Perrson - 47,700
Seat 8: Daniel Negreanu - 60,300
Seat 9: Adam Junglen - 79,800
The prospects for Hildebrand’s were looking decidedly bleak after his remaining chips found their way into the middle on a flop of . The reason? Theo Jorgensen’s hand when it rolled onto its back was the . The nuts stayed the nuts on the turn and Hildebrand shook hands and headed home.
In case you are tuning in late, here's a list of players who busted out during the first level of play on Day 2b:
Gary Conlon, Dorte Jagger, Achilleas Kallakis, Peter Andreas, Roland De Wolfe, Erik Friberg, Jaye Renehan, Dario Alioto, David Milby, Hasan Irfan, Jan Pruszkowski, Marc Goodwin, Michel Abecassis, Robert Cooper, Steve Billirakis, and Thomas Uhlin.
Over at the featured TV table, Howard Lederer busted out shortly after the break. He was heads up with Lee Nelson.
Lederer:
Nelson:
The flop was . The turn was the . And the river was the . Lederer's hand could not improve and he headed to the rail. Lederer's sister, Annie Duke, played yesterday. She advanced to Day 3 and ended Day 2a among the Top 10 in chips.
Kenny Tran has been one of the more prolific players today. He is entering a lot of pots and throwing his chips around. He is also at a relatively unknown table that he feels he can dominate.
Already past the 100,000 mark, this is a player to watch today.
Over at the featured TV table, I picked up the action on the flop of . Sam Norman was all in for his last 17,000 against Adam Junglen.
Norman:
Junglen:
Junglen was ahead with a set and Norman was on the brink of elimination. The turn was the . The river was the , which gave Norman a bigger set. He doubled up against Junglen to avoid elimination.
Norman increased his stack to 35,000. Junglen slipped to 64,000.