Aditya Agarwal three-bet an open in position preflop and it was heads up with in the middle.
The original opener bet 1,100 and Agarwal continued the story with a raise to 3,800. That convinced his opponent to lay it down and Agarwal got back to starting stack with that pot.
Agarwal, a professional poker player from India, has a remarkable eight cashes already at the 2017 WSOP with his best so far a ninth-place finish for $30,773 in Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em.
Nick Petrangelo has three WSOP final tables in the last couple of years. He got seventh in last year's High Roller for One Drop, earning $628,679. He also took fifth in last year's $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship. He earned his first WSOP bracelet in 2015 when he won the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. He will be looking to make his first final table of the summer and to pick up his second bracelet.
Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler has taken his seat and is looking for cash No. 4 of the series so far this year to add to his lifetime tally of 103 WSOP cashes totalling $1,596,063.
He is among the 3,318 players so far through the doors as Level 2 draws to a close.
Also spotted were Kathy Liebert and James “Flushy” Dempsey.
There was an open from late position and Jackie Glazier three-bet to 550 from the cutoff.
The players in the blinds folded and it went heads up to a flop of .
There was no action on the flop but, when the hit the turn and it was checked to her, Glazier bet 700. Her opponent called and the on the river paired the board. Her opponent now led out for 1,000 and Glazier called.
The her opponent showed was safe enough as Glazier turned over her , saying she was a little worried he could have had queen-jack.