We arrived to find Charles Chua hanging his head and making a noise like, "Kshawwww." The queen-high board with four spades on it was at the river and Chua had just turned over pocket kings to Vincent Chahley's pocket sevens. Neither of them had a spade.
"What you so upset about?" piped up another player at the table, "You won the hand."
"Oh, did I?" Chua suddenly looked up from the felt in genuine surprise.
"Put your glasses back on!"
Chua took the pot and was up to 58,000. Everyone thought this was funny except for Chahley, who dropped to 85,000.
From early position, Nam Le raised to 2,400. Amit Makhija called from middle position and Nick Schulman called out of the small blind before Dag Palovic reraised from the big blind to 8,200. Le, Makhija and Schulman all folded and Palovic showed the .
Markus Golser is over the 100k mark after getting John Eames to pay-off on the river. Eames raised to 2,500 from UTG and called when the Austrian bumped it up to 6,500 from the button. The flop came and Eames check-called a 7,500 bet before both checked the turn. Eames also checked the river to face a 16,000 bet. He tank-called then mucked upon seeing Golser's . Eames' still going well on 128,000 and Golser's getting closer on 105,000.
On the flop of , Nam Le fired out 3,300 and Amit Makhija called. The turn brought the and paired the top card on board. Le fired 5,600 and Makhija folded, allowing Le to chhip up to about 57,000 in chips.
Phil Ivey has been somewhat of the table bully since amassing the largest stack in the tournament. Here's a look at some of the damage he's done over the last rotation at his table.
From the hijack seat, Ivey raised to 2,700 and everyone at his table folded. On the very next hand, Ivey raised again from middle position and everyone folded. Ship the blinds and antes Ivey's way twice.
A few hands later, Anton Wigg raised the button and Ivey three-bet from the big blind. Wigg called and the two saw the flop come down . Ivey fired 11,000 and won the pot.
Move ahead a couple more hands and Ivey was on the button. Jani Sointula raised to 2,600 from the cutoff seat and Ivey made it 8,000. Sointula called and the two saw the flop come down . Sointula checked and Ivey fired 12,000. Sointula tossed his hand away and Ivey was pushed another pot.
Ivey's stack has grown to about 345,000 and he still leads the way here on Day 2.
With the board reading , Andrew Pantling bet 11,300 from the cutoff before Arnaud Mattern raised to 30,200 on the button. Pantling gave the Frenchman a long accusatory stare but then surrendered his hand as Mattern increased his stack to comfortably over the 120,000 mark.
Fourth Baldwin brother, Eric, has doubled up to 65,000 courtesy of neighbour Freddy Deeb. In a battle of the blinds encounter, all the money went in with Baldwin's in dominating shape against the of Freddy Deeb.
The flop meant Baldwin needed to evade a six as well as the bullet, and with the close-but-no-cigar being followed by a , he did indeed survive.
As the level came to a close so did Leo Margets' tournament. She had nearly 150k at the beginning of the level but, alas, she is now chip-less. She got it all-in with versus Bryn Kenney's but it was all over when the flop came a brutal . Two other players said after that they folded aces so she was stone-cold drawing dead on the flop. Kenney up to 114,000.
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and Eames check-called a 7,500 bet before both checked the 
turn. Eames also checked the 
river to face a 16,000 bet. He tank-called then mucked upon seeing Golser's 
. Eames' still going well on 128,000 and Golser's getting closer on 105,000.
, Nam Le fired out 3,300 and Amit Makhija called. The turn brought the 
and paired the top card on board. Le fired 5,600 and Makhija folded, allowing Le to chhip up to about 57,000 in chips.
over the top of Ted Lawson's raise and getting called by Anton Wigg's 
which pushed Lawson out of the pot.
. Ivey fired 11,000 and won the pot.
. Sointula checked and Ivey fired 12,000. Sointula tossed his hand away and Ivey was pushed another pot.
in dominating shape against the 
of Freddy Deeb.
being followed by a 
, he did indeed survive.
versus Bryn Kenney's 
. Two other players said after that they folded aces so she was stone-cold drawing dead on the flop. Kenney up to 114,000.
