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Jared Hamby is up to about 70,000 after notching an early elimination. The player in the cutoff made a minimum raise and Hamby, sitting with the button, re-raised to 2,800. When it folded back around to the cutoff, that player moved all in for about 15,000 total. Hamby called with 
and was up against 
. Hamby paired his ace on the flop and never looked back.
Per Ummer got the rest of his chips in the middle with 
for top pair, but his opponent made a runner-runner flush with 
to end his Main Event.
Everyone's Main Event has to end somehow. A very unlucky few will go home with the mother of all bad beats, like the player who faced Douglas Gabriel in a recent hand. That player got his last 30,000 chips in on the turn of a 
board with 
, a full house. Gabriel had that was just a little better -- 
for quad fives. He had turned a miraculous one-outer to take the lead. Gabriel's opponent was unable to repeat the feat and as a result he's out. Gabriel has about 88,000.
Jon Turner was acting under the gun and raised to 950, getting a call from the player in the hijack as well as the player in the big blind.
The flop came 
and all three players checked through to the turn, which came 
. The big blind checked to Turner who bet 1,600 and both of his opponents folded.
Thuy Doan started the day with only 5,000 chips, so you can't blame her for looking to start the day with an early double-up. On one of the first hands of the day she found herself all in with one caller.
Doan:
Opponent:
Doan needed a lot of help to pull ahead, but was unable to as the board ran out 
.
Lino Coscia started the day with 21,375 chips. Not even five minutes into the day, he got his whole stack into the middle on a flop of 
. Coscia was called by an opponent with top pair, [
, which was in bad shape against Coscia's set of deuces, 
. Nothing changed on the turn or river 
. Like that, Coscia is up to about 44,000.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
The doors of the Amazon Room opened moments ago. The survivors of Days 1b and 1d are now making their way to their tables (and presumably the same thing is going on in the Pavilion Room) to try to play their way down into the single combined field that will come back on Monday for Day 3.
There's not much we can say at this point that hasn't already been said. We expect things to start off with a bang and lots of rapid eliminations. But we're still a long, long way from the money bubble. That will presumably come late Monday.
The plan is to play four levels today: half of Level 5, Levels 6 and 7, and half of Level 8. We're going to begin on time in about ten minutes, hich means we'll be done by around 10:30pm.
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Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 2b Started
