Thater Thwarted

Jason Kudron -- in the top ten in chips when Day 2 began -- had a rough first level today and found himself down to just 15,000 when he was moved to Katja Thater's table. Soon afterwards he doubled through Thater, moving back up over 30,000 and leaving Thater with just a piddling 400 chips.

Forced to go all in from the small blind, Thater found herself heads up with {10-Clubs}

against an opponent's {A-Hearts}

. The first four community cards came {K-Spades}

, and Thater started to stand up. But the river was the {10-Spades}

and she retook her seat.

On the next hand, a player in early position raised to 2,300, then Luca Falaschi reraised to 12,000 from the hijack seat. Thater looked at her cards, shrugged, and pushed her tiny stack all in. The blinds and original raiser folded, Falaschi showed {Q-Hearts}