We began Day 2 with 178 players and a burst of the money bubble within the first level of play. When all was said and done, we were down to our final 12.
Mark Dube came into the day as our chip leader and made a good run, but would bust in 35th place. Some notable players that made the money, but fell short of Day 3, included Scott Clements (70th), Joe Serock (52nd), Jude Ainsworth (46th), Phil Hellmuth (29th) and Nick Schulman (14th).
Hellmuth ran his pocket kings into the pocket aces of Will Failla late in the day and never really recovered. Hellmuth would bust a short time later.
Failla seemingly played steady and disciplined poker throughout the day to end under average, but with a workable stack of 421,000. Also steady and focused was Dan Smith who managed a big double late in Day 1 that allowed him to position himself for a deep run here on Day 2 and he is stacked at 887,000, which is good for second in chips.
We will be back at it tomorrow at 1 p.m. PT and the players will combine to one table after two eliminations and then one elimination later we will have our official final table of nine. We will play down to a winner and see someone walk away with 1st place prize money of $408,953 and a shiny WSOP bracelet. Please join us tomorrow for complete Day 3 action.
Ryan Welch opened to 27,000 and Anthony Spinella reraised to 92,000 from the blind. Welch four-bet to 213,000 and Spinella met that with a five-bet to 360,000.
Welch moved all in and Spinella snap-called, but it wasn't good news as Welch turned over and Spinella was looking for black on the flop after tabling . It was all red though as the flop came down and the turn left Spinella drawing dead. The river was almost cruel he would be four-flushed, but with no more cards to come.
Welch gathered the huge pot and Spinella left beside himself.
Darren Elias was all in preflop with against the of Heinz Kamutzki
The cards came out and Elias was the next player to go just before the redraw for two tables.
Will Failla opened to 20,000 and Anthony Spinella called from the button. Matthew Haugen shoved all in from the small blind for 126,000 and Failla folded.
Spinella made the call with and was behind the of Haugen. The flop came and Spinella jumped into the lead. The board completed and Haugen was sent to the rail.
and Spinella was looking for black on the flop after tabling 
. It was all red though as the flop came down 
and the 
turn left Spinella drawing dead. The 
river was almost cruel he would be four-flushed, but with no more cards to come.
and was behind the 
and the rest of Schulmans chips went to Goodmiller.
and was behind the 
and Spinella jumped into the lead. The board completed 
and Haugen was sent to the rail.
and the straight of Katz crippled von Kreigenbergh.
the cards were on their backs.
