Brandon Gee has been active early in Day 2. Two hands in a row he saw the flop for four bets.
The first hand, Paul-Francois Tedeschi raised and Gee three-bet in position. Tedeschi four-bet and Gee called. The flop was and Tedeschi bet. Gee folded.
The next hand, Mattew Millisor raised under the gun and Gee three-bet in position. Donald Rigby four-bet from the small blind and Millisor and Gee both called. The flop was and Rigby bet. Millisor and Gee called. The turn was the and Rigby bet again. Millisor folded and Gee raised. Rigby called. When the hit the river, Rigby checked-called a bet from Gee. Gee showed and won the hand against Rigby's .
Georgios Zisimopoulos raised in early position and John Racener three-bet from the cutoff. The remaining players folded and it was heads up .
The flop was and Zisimopoulos checked. Racener bet and Zisimopoulos called. The turn was the and Zisimopoulos checked. Racener bet, Zisimopoulos check-raised, and Racener called.
On the river, Zisimopoulos bet and Racener got all his chips in. Zisimopoulos called and they showed down.
Both players had ace-king offsuit for Broadway and they chopped the pot.
Day 2 of Event #24: $1,500 Limit Hold’em begins at 2 p.m. today with 132 players returning to play 10 more one hour-long levels.
This event got 616 entries for a total prize pool of $831,600. The top 93 finishers will not leave empty-handed, as the minimum payout will be $2,246. Up for grabs for first place is $177,985.
Michael Reed starts the day as the biggest stack with 111,600 chips, followed by the only other player over 100,000 — Jeff Thompson, who has 108,700. Three-time bracelet winner Barry Greenstein is looking for bracelet number four and has 54,400 at the start of Day 2. Tyler Bonkowski is looking for a back-to-back final table in this event as he finished third last year. He starts the day as one of the short stacks with 8,300.
Several other accomplished players are still in the field and will be battling here on Day 2. They include Joshua Turner (78,500), Mike Cordell (72,500), Sean Berrios (71,900), Alex Luneau (53,500), Ray Henson (56,400), Esther Taylor (49,100), Terrence Chan (43,400), Ronnie Bardah (30,100), John Racener (18,000), Brock Parker (17,700) and Andrey Zaichenko (12,800).
Breaks are scheduled every two levels of play with a 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level at approximately 8:30 p.m.
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