Matthew Wolfson: 6xAx/5xKx10xKx/5x
Dave Stann: 8x2x/Qx7xJxKx/8x
Matthew Wolfson was down to his last bet on fourth street against Dave Stann who defended his bring-in versus Wolfson's complete on third street.
The chips went in and despite Stann only making a queen-low by the end, a second pair of fives on seventh street limited Wolfson's hand to a king-low, eliminating him from the tournament.
Heads-up on a flop of 8♠A♠9♣, Shaun Deeb bet 55,000 in the cutoff before Daniel Strelitz, in the big blind, raised to 150,000.
Deeb called to the K♠ turn, where Strelitz bet another 100,000. Deeb again called and the 5♠ fell on the river.
Strelitz now fired out 225,000 and Deeb snap-called. Strelitz turned over J♠7♦ for a flush on the river.
"You're so f**king good. Trying to punt it away. I was calling you down," Deeb said as he slammed his cards down on the table and surrendered the massive pot.
Picking action up on the flop with about 250,000 already in the middle after raises were exchanged preflop, Robert Ricciuti bet 56,000 from the small blind and got a call from Shaun Deeb on the button.
The players checked the 3♦ turn, but on the river 7♣, Ricciuti moved all in for 305,000.
Deeb went into the tank and ultimately made what would have been a great call, had it not been for the river.
Riccuti rolled over 7♥7♦ for a rivered set of sevens as Deeb showed his J♦10♦ for second pair, which had been good until Riccuti hit his two-outer on the river.
Chad Campbell bet after the second draw and Craig Carrillo called. Both players took one.
Campbell fired another bet and Carrillo called. Campbell then turned over 6x5x4x3x2x.
Carrillo looked at Campbell's cards and was prepared to muck his cards. "Is that a straight," he finally noticed before showing his 10-8 to win the pot.
"I thought for sure that was going to get through. I've shown him the best hand on the river four times in a row. I didn't think he would call that light," Campbell said after the hand.
After ten hours of play, little has been decided and all is still very much to play for on June 13 as 21 players will return for Day 3 of World Series of Poker Event #27: $1,500 8-Game.
Multiple players took turns late in the day making runs at the end-of-night chip lead, but when the bags were filled, it was Chad Campbell sealing up 1,991,000 chips, just ahead of Daniel Strelitz with 1,793,000, and Aloisio Dourado with 1,705,000.
In fact, eight of the top ten chip counts all bagged at least a million with only the stacks of bracelet winners Allan Le (150,000), and Quinn Do (120,000), dangerously short.
Top Ten End of Day 2 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
1
Chad Campbell
United States
1,991,000
2
Daniel Strelitz
United States
1,793,000
3
Aloisio Dourado
Brazil
1,705,000
4
John Bunch
United States
1,685,000
5
Robert Mizrachi
United States
1,198,000
6
Gary Kosakowski
United States
1,164,000
7
Kyle Loman
United States
1,140,000
8
Dave Stann
United States
1,087,000
9
Obli Prabhu
United States
905,000
10
Shaun Deeb
United States
868,000
Other notables outside the top ten but still with a chance Tuesday include four-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman (828,000), and three-time bracelet winner David "Bakes" Baker (444,000).
Nick Schulman
The Day’s Action
With a record field of 789 entries, of which 218 returned on June 12 for Day 2, a tidal wave of eliminations was expected to start the day, and those expectations held true to form as the money bubble of 119 was reached just after the first break of the day with almost 100 players busted within the first two hours of play.
Among those to fall shy of the money included Hall of Famers Jen Harman and Daniel Negreanu, and former WSOP Players of the Year David Bach, Daniel Zack, and Mike Gorodinsky.
The eliminations continued at a rapid clip once the lengthy, nearly hour-long bubble finally burst. Dylan Linde, Maxx Coleman, and Scott Bohlman were among the first to go in the money, earning at least the min-cash of $2,406.
Josh Arieh and Anthony Zinno busted in 64th and 65th place respectively for $3,234 each, a sum Phil Hellmuth also earned for his 59th place finish. Closer to night’s end, multi-time bracelet winners Max Pescatori (28th place) and Ian Johns (25th place) bowed out for $6,542 each.
Max Pescatori
What Lies Ahead
A no-doubt wild finish is in store when the players return to the Gold section of the Horseshoe Event Center at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 13 to play down to a winner, who will take home $198,854 and a prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.
While the field is tightly packed, the blinds and limits will surely provide some huge tournament-defining pots, with blinds of 10,000 / 20,000 in no-limit and pot-limit games and limits of 40,000 / 80,000 in limit and stud games.
Stay close to PokerNews for the thrilling conclusion of this event from Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas as our live reporting team brings you all the action.