The fireworks of the previous hand didn't go unnoticed by some of the players at neighboring tables, and Daniel Negreanu showed up as an interested spectator, getting a rundown of the preflop action from Dan Smith. Negreanu was dealt a hand in the meantime, and he went back to play it but was told his hand was dead. The tournament director confirmed that it was a dead hand, but Negreanu demanded another ruling, pointing out that he was clearly within an arm's length of the table.
"The rule say at my seat, I'm at my seat," Negreanu said pointedly. "These idiots who wrote this rule need to be fired. It's so vague."
The second tournament director arrived, and he calmly told Negreanu to play his hand after hearing the situation. Negreanu folded.
Three players had 17,200 in front of them when we got to a table where Leo Yan Ho Cheng was all in from the button for 56,000 more. Ihar Soika shoved from the big blind, covering everyone in the hand. Erik Seidel, who was under the gun, thought only briefly before calling off his 130,000 or so. Davidi Kitai took a deep breath and looked at the clock, thinking hard about putting in his stack of about 80,000 more.
"Sorry," he said with a smile, clearly struggling with the massive odds he was getting. Finally, he raised his cards to muck them.
"Jacks," he said pointing at Soika.
"Ace-king," he said to Seidel. He predicted Cheng's hand as well but we couldn't hear it.
Kitai's read was a bit off though, as Soika had only , while Seidel was the one leading with . Cheng had . The ugliest card in the deck from Seidel's perspective appeared in the window: . The turn improved Soika to a boat and eliminated Cheng from contention, and the was a blank on the river to send the Super High Roller champion packing as well.
In one of the last hands of Level 11, JC Alvarado opened for 6,000 under the gun and Michael Ferrari called. Action then folded to Russia's Nikolay Komcharokov on the button and he shoved for roughly 50,000. Mike Watson four-bet jammed over the top for right around 100,000, and both Alvarado and Ferrari folded.
Watson:
Komcharokov:
Komcharokov had some kicker issues, and his spot got even worse when the flop delivered Watson top pair. The turn left Komcharokov drawing dead, and the meaningless was put out on the river to make his elimination official.
We missed the action, but we do know that Riccardo Stevens got his stack all in on a flop and was at risk against Yingui Li.
Li:
Stevens:
Li had flopped good to pull ahed of Stevens' aces, and that's where he stayed as the turn and river came out the and respectively. Lo is closing in on 300,000 while Stevens has been eliminated from the tournament.
Adolfo Vaeza opened for a raise to 9,500 in middle position, and Anatoly Gurtovoy reraised to 20,000 on the button. Vaeza shoved for 82,100, and Gurtovoy called.
Mike Watson raised from the cutoff and Patrick Leonard three-bet jammed from the button for roughly 45,000. Michael Ferrari looked him up from the big, Watson folded, and Leonard discovered the bad news.
Leonard:
Ferrari:
The board ran out clean, and Leonard made an early exit here on Day 2.
Meanwhile, David Dayan, who was the chip leader most of Day 1, and Fady Kamar, who entered at the start of Day 2, have both been eliminated from the tournament.