With a full board of 8♠8♣4♣6♠7♥ showing and around 100,000 in the pot, Leonid Orman had fired a bet of 75,000 and Peng Chen had raised to 180,000. Orman was in the tank for quite some time and looked puzzled, then eventually elected to call.
Chen then tabled 10♦9♦ for a rivered straight, and Orman mucked.
The action was picked up on a turn of 9♥2♠9♣K♣, with 150,000 already in the pot. Nicolas Betbese checked under the gun and Pieter Theelen followed suit in the cutoff.
The 10♥ river saw Betbese check once more. Theelen, however, placed a bet of 70,000. Betbese went some minutes in the tank before putting in the call.
Theelen showed down K♥J♦ for two pair, besting whatever Betbese threw into the muck.
Action was picked up with the cards on their backs. Timo Kamphues was all-in and at risk versus the covering stack of Andrey Pateychuk.
Timo Kamphues: A♣4♥
Andrey Pateychuk: A♥Q♣
Both players paired their ace on thre A♦J♣3♦ flop but Pateychuk made two pair on the Q♦ turn. The 6♦ river confirmed Kamphues exit from the tournament.
With almost 400,000 chips in the pot on a board of 5♣3♠9♦4♠, Omar Del Pino checked it over to Archibald Seaton, who fired a small bet of 60,000. Del Pino then clicked it to 125,000, then Seaton shoved. Del Pino snap-called for his stack of 294,000.
Omar Del Pino: A♥A♣
Archibald Seaton: K♣K♠
It was a dream spot for Del Pino, who was one card away from a stack of around a million chips. Inversely, Seaton was on the brink of being left super short-stacked as he only had around 70,000 behind. The river card was paint, but not what Seaton was hoping for as the J♦ kept the pocket aces of Del Pino in the lead.
Akinobu Maeda had raised from the hijack and was called by Julien Sitbon on the button and Denis Vlasov in the big blind.
Maeda continued for 20,000 on the K♠K♥3♥ flop, seeing Sitbon call and Vlasov check-fold.
The 9♦ turn slowed down the Japanese player as he checked to Sitbon. Sitbon then fired 65,000, which Maeda called. The 5♣ river was subsequently checked down.
Maeda tabled K♣6♣ for trip kings, winning the pot as Sitbon swiftly added his cards to the muck.
Bruno Sanzoni moved all in from the cutoff for 117,000, and Andrey Pateychuk rejammed from the small blind. Oleg Ustinovich was in the big blind, playing around 210,000, and he also moved his chips into the middle.
Bruno Sanzoni: A♠7♦
Oleg Ustinovich: A♣Q♣
Andrey Pateychuk: A♥9♣
Ustinovich was in great shape with the dominating ace, and he improved to top pair on the Q♥10♦3♥ flop.
The 8♥ turn had Sanzoni up out of his chair, but brought danger for Ustinovich as Pateychuk now held the nut flush draw.
Sure enough, the 7♥ rolled off on the river, sending a chunky pot to Pateychuk and sending both of his opponents to the rail.
Pateychuk started the day with just 95,000 and seems to have been on a roll in Day 2 so far.
PokerNews is excited to announce that our Home Games Leaderboard is continuing in October and readers can continue to pit themselves against one another in our private PokerNews Home Games group on the PokerStars platform.
PokerNews Home Games has already awarded over $8,000 worth of tickets and with games running daily, there is always time to jump and grab some of that juicy value.
Members can compete on the virtual felt on both mobile and desktop, and PokerNews will add incredible value to the heap of online poker tournaments running throughout the year. Don't worry if you are a new player as everyone is welcome, we have a variety of buy-ins and games that will be running so you too can enjoy battling for bragging rights and big blinds.
Throughout October, PokerNews will be running daily Added Value MTTs in which the winner shall receive a tournament ticket, of $11, for winning the MTT and this is on top of the prizepool itself. Buyins are an affordable $1.10 and there are also Leaderboard prizes for the top 10 finishers at the end of the month. Any MTT in which registration closes with over 30 players, PokerNews will double the 1st place ticket, so the incentive is there to get all of your poker playing buddies involved and get even more value.
Jareth East opened to 20,000 from early position. Action folded around to Mykhailo Demydenko who defended the big blind.
He check-raised a bet of 16,000 to 39,000 on the flop of 9♦6♥Q♠. East called. Demydenko then checked again on the A♦ turn, which prompted East to fire a bet of 60,000. Demydenko quickly folded leaving East with the pot.
