Roland Isrealashvili was seen standing up and waiting for payouts as his broadway on a board of was inadequate against the of Rodney Boswell who was scooping the large pot and surging himself toward the top of the chip counts.
The prizepool for the $1,500 Closer has been confirmed. A total of 2,968 created a prizepool of $3,962,280. The top prize will be for $536,280. The field is already well into the money on Day 2 and the payouts will start to increase steadily.
Action was picked up on the turn as the board read . From early position, Carlos Loving bet 300,000 into a pot of about the same size.
His opponent was in the big blind and checked his cards on multiple occasions before eventually relinquishing them while showing the face up and sending the pot across the table to Loving.
With a pot of around 810,000 in the middle and the board showing, Jonathan Dokler put forward a bet of 510,000 from the small blind. His opponent was in the big blind and considered things for quite some time before he laid it down and Dokler gathered in the nice pot.
The flop read . From middle position, David Pham bet 180,000. Duy Ho raised all in from the cutoff and the player under the gun tanked for a while before folding his hand. Pham called.
Ho had the lead with the for top two but would have to hold off the flush draw of Pham. The turn was the to also give Pham the broadway draw. But the river was a complete brick, the and Pham's stack was decimated while Ho shot higher up the counts.
The players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day. The clock shows 108 players remaining, meaning that well over half of the field dropped in two hours of play.