Patrick Chan pushed all in for roughly 700,000 and was called by Bradley Anderson.
Anderson:
Chan:
Chan was dominated, but he found help in the form of a gutshot on the flop. The turn made his straight draw open-ended, but the painted the end for Chan, who will have to console himself with the first six-figure payout of the tournament.
It was folded to Carter Kessler in the small blind who moved all in for 1.2 million. Stephen Graner, the big stack, was in the big blind. He looked at his cards and leaned back.
"Did you really just do that?" he asked. "Ripped 1.2 million when I have this hand?"
"Gotta," replied Kessler.
Graner casually tossed a stack of T25,000 chips into the middle as if he wasn't expecting to see them come back to his stack. He was ahead, however, with his as Kessler only held . "That's a buzz saw," said Kessler, adding "you're supposed to have junk."
The board would run out to give Graner the pot and send Kessler off to collect is six figure payday.
Jonathan Dimmig opened from early position to 120,000 and Bradley Anderson called from the button. Michael Stembera moved all in from the big blind for 685,000 total. Dimmig got out of the way and with the pressure on and the chance to get to the official final table, Anderson ultimately made the call. It looked like a bad call when the hands were turned over:
Anderson
Stembera
That all changed when the dealer fanned a flop of giving Anderson middle pair. The turn was the giving Stembera a ton of outs to survive. Any ace, ten, or club would give him the winning hand and double up.
It was not to be though as the river was the . The players are now bagging and tagging for the night. We'll have the official chip counts shortly.
Stephen Graner will bring 12,005,000, about a third of the chips in play, to tomorrow's final table of Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em. That puts him more than 7 million clear of his nearest competitor, James Duke.
The Henderson, Nev., native has already gotten 2014 off to a nice start, scoring his biggest ever cash of $65,840 in February, but with such a massive chip lead, he has his sights set squarely on the $1,319,587 first-place prize. Everyone returning tomorrow is already assured of scoring $128,150.
The most accomplished tournament players coming back tomorrow are in third and seventh, respectively. Englishman Andrew Teng ($700,000 in live cashes) brings 4,375,000, while Florida's Maurice Hawkins ($1.1 million) bagged just under 2 million.
Plenty of well-known players brought stacks into Day 2, but most fell by the wayside relatively early on. Among those falling today: Chris Klodnicki, Matt Salsberg, Amir Lehavot, Athanasios Polychronopolous, James Mackey, Andrew "BalugaWhale" Seidman, John Racener, Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler, Chris DeMaci, and Greg "FBT" Mueller.
Tomorrow's final table will convene at 1 p.m. and play down to a winner. Be sure to tune back in to PokerNews for the crowning of the next poker millionaire, who will have conquered a massive field to claim the bracelet.
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turn made his straight draw open-ended, but the 
painted the end for Chan, who will have to console himself with the first six-figure payout of the tournament.
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as Kessler only held 
to give Graner the pot and send Kessler off to collect is six figure payday.
giving Anderson middle pair. The turn was the 
giving Stembera a ton of outs to survive. Any ace, ten, or club would give him the winning hand and double up.
