After a long day of intense poker action, Day 2 of Event #30: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low came to a conclusion with Eric Kurtzman leading the final 12 players.
Beginning the day with 109 players, action was fast paced with eliminations flying out the door. Ann Bloom folded down to just over an ante before being eliminated by Anthony Zinno in 65th place, bursting the money bubble and leaving 64 players guaranteed a $2,603 payday.
Mike Watson (63rd), Hoyt Corkins (57th), Maria Ho (50th), Chris Viox (48th), Zinno (43rd), Roland Israelashvili (40th), Matt Glantz (34th), Owais Ahmed (31st), Dylan Linde (23rd), Jesse Martin (19th), and Chris Wallace (16th) all found themselves in the money, but on the rail as the day ended with just 12 players.
Kurtzmann's impressive 490,000-chip stack finished ahead of Calvin Anderson (356,000), Sanjay Pandya (307,000), and Joe Tehan (285,000) for the chip lead. Six-time WSOP bracelet winner Ted Forrest, cash-game specialist Melissa Burr, and 2007 Aussie Millions runner-up Jimmy Fricke still remain in contention for the $190,538 first prize and coveted gold bracelet.
Table
Seat
Player
Chips
447
1
Levon Torosyan
92,000
447
2
Robert Goldfarb
170,000
447
3
--empty--
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447
4
Melissa Burr
222,000
447
5
Calvin Anderson
356,000
447
6
--empty--
--
447
7
Ted Forrest
183,000
447
8
Joe Tehan
285,000
448
1
Jimmy Fricke
216,000
448
2
John Myung
76,000
448
3
Eric Kurtzman
490,000
448
4
--empty--
--
448
5
Sanjay Pandya
307,000
448
6
--empty--
--
448
7
David Brooker
176,000
448
8
Matthew Kelly
73,000
Make sure to join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team from 2 p.m. PT on Sunday as play down until just one remains.
We arrived at the table in time to see Alex Livingston all in and at risk against Ted Forrest on fourth street. By the hand's end, Forrest was able to make a seven low and a pair of aces for the high. Livingston was unable to improve to beat Forrest's hand and he was eliminated from play in 13th place.
Daniel Ospina was all in for his tournament life simultaneously with Alex Livingston on the other table. Opsina was ultimately unable to survive his all in and was eliminated from play in 14th place. Ospina collected $7,588 for his deep run in this event.
David Brooker completed with a four showing and a short-stacked Jesse Martin announced a raise from the next seat over with a seven. Action folded back to Brooker and he called. On fourth street, Martin checked over to Brooker and he fired out a bet. Martin called to see fifth. Both players checked fifth street and Martin paired sevens on sixth. He moved all in for his last 7,500 and Brooker called.
Martin showed in the hole while Brooker tabled . The two players were dealt their seventh street cards and Martin immediately flipped up the , giving him two pair of sevens and sixes. Brooker tabled the , giving him queens and fours for a better two pair. Martin was eliminated from play and Brooker brought his stack up to about 120,000.
Joe Tehan completed and both David Levi and Todd Ickow called before Ickow was all in for 500 on fourth. Levi check-called on fifth before betting all in on sixth with Tehan calling as each player's board read as follows.
Tehan: /
Levi: /
Ickow: /
Ickow peeled the , Levi squeezed out the and Tehan found the to scoop both players and send them to the rail in a double elimination.
Dylan Linde had the bring-in and Trai Dang completed with Calvin Anderson calling before Dylan Linde raised all in for his last 9,000 and both Dang and Anderson called.
Dang bet fourth with Anderson calling before both checked fifth. Anderson bet sixth and Dang called before folding to Anderson's bet on seventh.
Linde: / /
Dang: / /
Anderson: / /
Anderson tabled his for a straight as Linde flashed his and headed to the rail in 23rd place.
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, Wallace could only manage to pull the 
to end his tournament in 16th place for a $6,175 payday.
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in the hole while Brooker tabled 
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, Levi squeezed out the 
to scoop both players and send them to the rail in a double elimination.
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