Lehmanski Leads Once Again After Day 2
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After nearly 11 hours of play - Level 17 was repeated because it took place on the bubble - Day 2 of Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) has finally come to a close. With the elimination of Brandon Meyers on the stone bubble, 18 players have guaranteed themselves a minimum of $53,781, and the chip leader is German Max Lehmanski. Lehmanski entered Day 2 with the most chips, and although he didn't go wire-to-wire, he ended the day in the same exact spot, bagging 1,982,000 chips.
The only other players to bag seven figures were Stephen Chidwick, Phil Galfond, Dani Stern, and Steve Sung. Sung was one card away from being the bubble boy himself when he got more than a half a million chips in the middle preflop with ace-king off-suit against the aces of Igor Kurganov. Sung made a four flush when the turn and river went diamond-diamond, doubling to over 1.1 million chips. Sung seemingly ran hot the entire day, busting Kyle Julius with ace-five against ace-jack prior to the bubble, and calling all-in with just ace-high on a seven-high flop only to chop when the turn and river put a straight on the board.
Also making Day 3 are notables Kevin Eyster, Todd Terry, Shannon Shorr, Ogjen Sekularac, David "Bakes" Baker, Marvin Rettenmaier, Fabian Quoss, and Christian Harder. Sekularac, despite one of the other shortest stacks in the room, was the one to bust Meyers. Sekularac won a race with two tens against Meyers' ace-jack to burst the bubble and end the day.
Joining Meyers on the rail today were a host of other notables, including Byron Kaverman, Rachid Ben Cherif, Zachary Clark, Max Steinberg, Eugene Katchalov, Jason Mercier, JP Kelly, Tobias Reinkemeier, Niklas Heinecker, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and the winner of the $111,111 One Drop High Roller, Tony Gregg.
The second Gregg was done with his interviews and photos, he hustled over to the Tan Section of the Amazon Room, but ran an unsuccessful bluff to bust.
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, but he did pick up a gut-shot straight draw and a backdoor flush draw. Sekularac held two of his tens, but even if a ten turned, the Serbian would still have a redraw to a full house.
on the turn removed Meyers' hopes of making a flush, and left him with eight outs to survive. Unfortunately for him, the 
completed the board, and he was eliminated on an excruciatingly long bubble.
board. Eyster had checked, Stern fired out 58,000, and Eyster check-raised to 152,000. Stern called.
, and Eyster grabbed a yellow T1,000 chip and a pink T5,000 chip, placed them on top of green T25,000 chips and slid forward 506,000.
for a pair of aces.
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flop made that all the more likely, but much to the surprise of the railbirds still in attendance, the 
turned to give Kurganov a flush draw. Much to Kurganov's dismay, as well as the other players hoping to make the money, the 
spiked on the river to save Sung.
turned. A meaningless 
completed the board, and Kaverman hit the rail.
turned, giving Sung the lead. The 
completed the board, and Julius dropped his head down on the table for a second or two before getting out of his chair and exiting the area.
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respectively.
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on the turn was a low card, keeping Lipman ahead, and he continued his "un poquito" chant. The dealer rapped the table in preparation to deliver the final card, then spiked the 
onto the felt.
flop was great for Mizzi as it gave him the nut-flush draw while at the same time missing Eyster; in fact, Mizzi became a huge 89.70% favorite while Eyster's chances dropped to 8.18%. The 
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