The bubble has burst after Ian Glycenfer and Cher Herr were both eliminated on the same hand, with Glycenfer running ace-king into aces. The two are splitting the first payout of the tournament, which has now officially reached the money.
There was over 100,000 in the middle on a board of with three way action. Doug Jones checked from the big blind and Ken Mann went all in for 30,000 in the hijack. Matt Krier called on the button and Jones folded.
Ken Mann:
Matt Krier:
Krier's two pair was good to beat Mann's pair of aces and Krier scooped the pot and the knockout shortly before hand-for-hand play begins.
Swami Burtschi, a dealer here at Golden Gates was a short stack through most of his Day 1 flight before getting through the day and advancing to Day 2. However, he will not be one of those to make it into the money as the following players have been eliminated from the tournament with 127 now remaining.
A mountain of chips were all in from a three-bet pot that was check-raised on a flop of before all the rest of the chips got in the middle on the turn between Peter Schuldiner, who was at risk for his tournament life against Luis Rosa after coming into the day with just under 400,000 to start.
Peter Shuldiner:
Luis Rosa:
Shuldiner's flopped set ran into Rosa's turned straight and was in need of the board pairing to stay alive and win a massive pot. However, the river fell in Rosa's favor and he earned the knockout and the massive pot, bringing him well over 1 million early on Day 2.
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"Well, this could be a shitty drive up," said Eddy Konarske after calling all in after had 20,000 out in front of him in the cutoff and Lorenzo Banuelos three-bet all in on the button. Hands were then tabled.
Eddy Konarske:
Lorenzo Banuelos:
Konraske held as the board ran out clean, coming to get him the early double.