In a battle of the blinds on a board of with around 15,000 in the middle, Demis Hassabis checked to Khiem Nguyen who bet out 11,500.
Hassabis then check-raised to 30,000 before Nguyen shoved all in and Hassabis called for his 58,900 chip stack.
Hassabis:
Nguyen:
With Hassabis holding a flush draw to go along with his low straight, the river of the saw him pushed the pot to double through to over 130,000 as Nguyen's missed straight draw saw his stack spiral down to under 50,000.
On a flop of , Hans Winzeler checked from the small blind and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi bet 3,100 from the big. Jeffrey Schweickert folded from the under-the-gun position, and then Kyle Julius raised the pot to 14,100. Winzeler folded and then Mizrachi did the same.
Not much of a hand, but it gave us a good chance to update you on their stacks. As you can see, despite losing that hand, Mizrachi has gotten off to a good start here on Day 2.
Tim West limped under the gun and the action folded round to Davidi Kitai on the button and he raised to 5,400. The blinds passed but West cut out a stack of chips amounting to a raise of 18,000.
Close to two minutes went by before West chirped, "You have all those nice orange chips to play with!"
"I think you have Kings," responded Kitai.
"I have Queens so I have to fold" the Belgian then added before folding.
Leonardo Martins opened for 2,500 under the gun and was met by a three-bet to 5,200 by Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond in the cutoff. Action folded back to Martins, he called, and it was heads-up action to the flop. Martins checked, Galfond bet 3,600, and Martins made the call.
Both players proceeded to check the turn and then Martins led out for 6,100 on the river. Galfond paused for a moment for sliding out a tower of chips, which constituted a raise to 19,400, and Martins thought long and hard before tossing in a single chip to signify a call.
Galfond rolled over the for a rivered full house, and it was good as Martins sent his cards to the muck.
Kyle Julius begins the day on the short side, but with Michael Mizrachi at his table he's confident opportunities will present themselves. He also explains why he hasn't been included in the basketball prop bets here at the Rio.
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and the 2014 World Series of Poker for Day 2 of Event #42: $5,000 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha!
Yesterday saw 452 players take to the felt to create a $2,124,400 prizepool that would leave $541,747 reserved for the victor after crushing the mark this event set last year when Steve Gross topped a 400-player field. Gross would unfortunately find himself on the rail along with second place finisher Salman Behbehani before the likes of Philipp Gruissem, Sammy Farha, Paul Volpe, Antonio Esfandiari, Noach Schwartz, Stephen Chidwick and Greg Merson would also find themselves watching from behind the rail.
Once the call to bag and tag was made, 96 players would survive as Belgium's Davidi Kitai bagged an impressive 308,300 to be in line to make a run at his fourth WSOP gold bracelet and second for the series. Nipping at Kitai's heels include Brandon Crawford (202,900), Kory Kilpatrick (202,000) and Brant Hale (189,200).
Mike Gorodinsky, Scott Bohlman, Brian Rast, Mike Watson, Michael Mizrachi, Scotty Nguyen, David "Bakes" Baker and Ashton Griffin all posses six-figure chip stacks while a plethora of notables still remain as they firstly eye the money-paying top 48 before making a run at that elusive WSOP final table.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be providing extensive live coverage once play commences at 1:00 p.m. (PDT) as we look to write the victory path of the future Event #42 Champion.