A player in early position went all in, and action folded to Greg Vereschagin, who was in the big blind.
Vereschagin leaned forward to look at his opponent’s stack, and then made the call.
Vereschagin: A♣6♣
Opponent: 10♦10♠
The board ran out 6♠Q♠2♥A♠7♥, giving Vereschagin the win and sending his opponent to the rail.
Action folded around to Phil Hellmuth, who was in the small blind. He chose to just call and his opponent thought for a moment before checking his option.
With little action the board ran out 10♣6♣A♦A♥9♣, on the river Hellmuth bet and when his opponent folded, he couldn't help but show the 9♥9♠ for a rivered boat. Hellmuth famously won the Main Event with pocket nines against Johnny Chan in 1989.
Hellmuth, rather pleased, said, "I limp in, in case you want to move all in... I call!".
Facing an all in from early position, Tomoki Iida went all in himself and isolated the action to heads up.
Opponent: 10♥10♣
Tomoki Iida: Q♥Q♦
The ladies were looking good as the board ran out 4♣7♦K♠9♥K♥ and Iida soared well over a million chips.
Both players had all of the chips in the middle before the flop and it was Danny Nguyen at risk for 245,000.
Danny Nguyen: K♠4♠
Opponent: A♣Q♥
Nguyen had two live cards and the 7♠5♥2♠ flop gave him a flush draw as well. The 4♣ meant Nguyen took the lead with a pair of fours and the 6♥ river changed nothing as Nguyen collected a double.
Niveau: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Multiple players busted out as short stacks within minutes of Day 2 kicking off.
WSOP bracelet winner Mike Ruter, who started Level 23 with 240,000, made sure he wasn’t one of them.
After a player in middle position raised, Ruter moved all in at the cutoff. The button and blinds folded, and action returned to the original raiser, who made the call.
Ruter: 9♣9♦
Opponent: A♦2♦
The board ran out K♣7♣Q♠8♣7♦, giving Ruter two pair and a fast double up.
On the very next hand with Ruter on the button, he once again moved all in after action folded to him. The blinds folded and he picked up the combined 60,000 from the small blind, big blind and the ante.
Ryan Dewbre raised to 100,000 in early position and Phuoc Nguyen three-bet jammed for 440,000 from a couple of spots to his left. The action folded back around to Dewbre as he called off with the exact same amount of chips.
Ryan Dewbre: 7♣7♠
Phuoc Nguyen: K♥J♥
It was a classic race as the flop came Q♥8♦2♦, missing both players. The A♠ turn was looking promising for Dewbre but the K♦ river improved Nguyen to a pair of kings to send Dewbre to the payout desk.
"Yes baby!" Screamed Nguyen. "No more chicken sh*t!"
Facing a raise and a call in front of him in the big blind, Sean Ahren put his remaining 220,000 chips all-in and was isolated by the initial raiser.
Seah Ahrens: K♦3♦
Opponent: Q♣10♠
The board ran out A♠5♦9♥5♥2♣ and king high held for a crucial double on Day 2.
Skender Alicka limped in early position and Haresh Jathani called in the small blind before Minh Nguyen checked his option.
The dealer fanned a flop of 5♠3♣2♥ and once checked to, Nguyen jammed his stack of about 160,000 into the middle which received quick folds from both of his opponents.
Cards are officially in the air in Day 2 of Event #11 as the tournament director has instructed the dealers to shuffle up and deal.
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