Brian Hastings, Hoyt Corkins and Stephen Chidwick just created some fireworks on third street, which resulted in the latter being all in for his tournament life.
When Hastings announced, "five bets" it was time for Chidwick, who was caught in the middle of this raising war, to commit his final chips to the pot. Corkins called the raise and all three players went to fourth street.
Hasting bet fourth, Corkins called and on fifth he check-called a bet. On sixth street Corkins check-folded and Hastings showed for a six-five low. Chidwick tabled and he was drawing dead. Seventh street was meaningless and Chidwick left the tournament room empty handed.
Brian Hastings completed and Jesse Martin raised to 16,000. Hastings responded by making it 24,000 and Martin called before calling bets on fourth and fifth to be all in for his last 16,000.
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Hastings found the on sixth to take the lead as Martin paired the . On seventh Martin found the and Hastings the to send Martin to the rail as the bubble boy in 17th place.
Catching the action on fourth street we found David Bach betting and both Nick Schulman and Naoya Kihara calling as Kihara led on fifth with Bach calling and Schulman calling all in for 15,000. Kihara bet sixth and Bach called before Bach bet seventh and Kihara tank-folded.
Roland Israelashvili had the bring-in and George Danzer completed before Paul Volpe raised all in for his last 20,000. Israelashvili called before Danzer raised and Israelashvili called. Danzer bet fourth and Israelashvili folded as both player's board ran out as follows:
After an epic second day of play, it's former $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. champion David Bach who leads the way with 12 players remaining. Daniel Negreanu, fresh off a runner-up finish in the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw, is in contention again as he will come into the final day third in chips. Brandon Shack-Harris, winner of the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha at the start of the Series, sits second in chips and he could be on his way to becoming the first two-time champ this summer.
In the early goings of Day 2, we said goodbye to Allen Kessler, Scott Seiver, David Oppenheim, and $1,500 Razz champion Ted Forrest. As the action slowly picked up some pace due to the ever increasing bets and antes, we also lost poker legend Doyle Brunson, $1,500 Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em winner Justin Bonomo, and last year's $50,000 Players' Championship winner Matthew Ashton.
As we neared the money, play slowed down, and we saw several big stacks lose their chips in rapid fashion. Brandon Cantu, Eli Elezra, and David Singer all had great stacks halfway through the day, but none of them made the money.
On the bubble, we lost Jesse Martin, despite Nick Schulman and Shack-Harris sitting on just a few bets. The latter went on an impressive heater in the final hour, and he closed out second in chips behind Bach.
Japanese poker phenom Naoya Kihara — the only Japanese WSOP gold bracelet winner — and online legend Brian Hastings look to win their second bracelet tomorrow, while Dan O'Brien, George Danzer, and Yuval Bronshtein are eying their first.
Make sure to tune back in with us tomorrow at 2 p.m. for the final day of the first ever $10,000 Razz Championship on PokerNews.com.
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— fold
for a six-five low. Chidwick tabled 
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on sixth to take the lead as Martin paired the 
. On seventh Martin found the 
and Hastings the 
to send Martin to the rail as the bubble boy in 17th place.
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for a six-five and Schulman flashed his 
and headed to the rail in 15th place for a $18,592 payday.
(folded on fourth)
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