Griffin Benger three-bet all in with the after Jeff Madsen opened the .
"All right, let's see what happens," said Madsen, as he made the call. Then after seeing Benger's small pocket pair Madsen said, "That's what I thought."
The board ran out in Madsen's favor, coming , and Benger was out the door.
We missed the elimination of Maurice Hawkins, but Canada's Steven Kerr was kind enough to inform us of some details after the fact.
As he told it, the two got it in on the river when Kerr had an ace-high straight with . He said Hawkins never showed his hand, but did say that he had two pair. Whatever he had the result is the same — Hawkins has been eliminated from the tournament.
It was a flip, but not after the flop came down to give MacPhee a set. The turn left Touil in need of a six on the river to win, but it was not meant to be as the appeared instead.
Moments before the break, Kyle Bowker, Elia Ahmadian, and Dan Shak were all in. Ahmadian held , Shak had , and Bowker had . Bowker flopped a set and it held from there, busting both Ahmadian and Shak before the break to move to 192,000 in chips.
Heinz Kamutzki opened the action for 3,300 only to have Stephen Chidwick three-bet all in for 33,500 from the small blind. The big got out of the way and Kamutzki made a quick call.
Kamutzki:
Chidwick:
Chidwick was in need of some help, and while he got a little on the flop, he needed more if he hoped to survive. He didn't receive it on the turn, but he did on the river. Chidwick got lucky to make two pair, and that left Kamutzki with just 2,500 in chips.
Dario Sammartino abandoned his stack here on Day 2. He started the day with 22,100, but he never showed up to play it. Now it has been blinded down to nothing and Sammartino finds himself on the list of the recently eliminated.