Roberto Romanello has run into some bad luck to drop into a dangerous zone in terms of his chipcounts, with less than 20 big blinds.
Romanello raised to 135,000 over the top of an opening bet to 55,000 and when the original raiser went all-in for 575,000, Romanello called it off with pocket queens. He was way in front up against , but an ace on the flop and no help for Romanello doubled his opponent up to 1.2million and dropped the Welsh Wizard and partypoker ambassador to just 525,000 chips, equating to 17 big blinds.
The post-break casualties included Jakub Michalak, Thomas Muehloecker, Louise Duffy, Barny Boatman and Stefan Schillhabel. Martin Kabrhel and Eric Le Goff were also gone, while Kully Sidhu walked into the tournament area around 20 minutes late with a ticket in hand he had bought before the registration closed.
So far, the screens show 551 unique players on Day 2 here at the Dusk Till Dawn and 45 re-entries were purchased. As of now with the registration officially closed, there are 484 remaining and there are another 35 players that already qualified for Day 3.
In the last hand before the break, Paul Carr raised from under the gun and Lander Lijó Bereciartua called in the cutoff, the big blind also called. The flop came and the big blind checked. Carr bet 90,000 and Lijo raised to 280,000, forcing a fold from Stephen Woodhead in the big blind and a call by Carr.
On the turn, both players checked and Carr then bet the river for 315,000. Lijo shoved for another 912,000 on top of that and Carr was deep in the think tank. Eight minutes into the break, Lijo eventually called the clock while both had traded some table talk, guessing each other's hand.
Carr then folded the face up and Lijo flashed for casual quads. Fabio Sperling in the one seat was watching the show unfold before also heading into the break.
Players are on break for 20 minutes in Day 2 of the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Main Event.
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Jack Ferguson ran out of luck in a big way after making the correct call on the turn of a board showing . With 400,000 in the pot, Konrad Reyne moved all-in for his last 301,000.
Ferguson eventually called and was winning with against Reyne's ...until the landed on the river to give Reyne Broadway and preserve his tournament life. He was one card from being out and now he has over a million chips.
Boris Becker has been climbing steadily today and was above three million chips at one point, but a little hiccup occurred just before the break, that put the tennis legend back down to average stack once more.
A shortstacked Preben Stokkan raised to 50,000 from early position and only Becker in the big blind was up for some games. He reraised to 200,000 and Stokkan put his remaining 370,000 in the middle. Becker quickly called.
Boris Becker:
Preben Stokkan:
The board ran out giving Stokkan the rivered set for good measure. Becker is still above his 1,992,000 starting stack of the day.