He was still in the process of stacking his chips when a big hand occurred. We didn't catch the action but Elezra had shown against the of John Dobson. The board ran out giving Dobson new hopes for making the money. Elezra's stack can take a couple of hits and his humour also isn't affected by this loss. He is smiling as always!
Our chip leader has started by doubling up the shortest stack on his table. The action folded around to Dustin Dobrilovic in the small blind and he moved all-in holding and Sadan Turker called in the big blind holding . The board maintaining the pre flop lead for Dobrilovic as he doubled up.
Vanessa Selbst opened the pot with a raise to 2,500 from the under the gun +1 position and she got called by Derkowski, who was on the button. The flop brought out and Selbst threw out 3,700. Her opponent tanked for a bit and called.
The turn was the and quickly both players checked. On the river the hit and Selbst gave it some thought before the threw out 7,800. After a while Derkowski folded and Selbst raked in a nice little pot.
There was an early position limper before Jamie McCarrel raised to 3,200 just a few seats to the players left. The action folded towards Jason Mercier seated in the dead button and he asked for a count. After receiving the information Mercier wanted, he raised to 6,000, the limper folded, McCarrel moved all-in and Mercier called.
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So Mercier had a bit of hope on the flop but it then petered out on the turn. McCarrel now has 25,000 and Mercier is down to 31,000.
Yesterday was a grueling session of poker. Let's call it a warm up for what is to come over the next two months. But despite all the hard work, the Brasilia, Amazon and Pavilion were bursting with fun, frolics and fantastic poker. When you look up at the clock and see 2,101 players you wonder how on earth the day will ever end. But end it did and with 239 players left we were so very close to breaching the money bubble as well.
Today we start all over again as we continue to find a worthy wrist for the bracelet hidden in a box entitled Event #2 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Over the next ten levels of poker we are going to see this tournament really take shape. 216 players are going to proudly tell people they are 1/1 and perversely the 217th player will also be proudly telling everyone how they were oh so nearly 1/1.
Sadan Turker starts the day in pole position, with 158,100 chips, but he starts the day on a grid bursting with pace and power. He shares table space with WSOP bracelet winner John Juanda, and more interestingly WSOP bracelet winner Andrew Badecker who starts the day with positional advantage over our chip leader. Eli Elezra, who is lurking just over the shoulder of Turker, starts the day on a table riddled with 10-20BB stacks.
The team at Pokernews will be bringing you all of the action from the Amazon room starting at 13:00, so please make sure you get ready for a day of bruising poker action.
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of John Dobson. The board ran out 
giving Dobson new hopes for making the money. Elezra's stack can take a couple of hits and his humour also isn't affected by this loss. He is smiling as always!
board maintaining the pre flop lead for Dobrilovic as he doubled up.
and Selbst threw out 3,700. Her opponent tanked for a bit and called.
hit and Selbst gave it some thought before the threw out 7,800. After a while Derkowski folded and Selbst raked in a nice little pot.
