We caught up with action with the board reading and Brandon Shane in a three way all-in confrontation. Shane showed down his for a flopped top set and was well ahead of his opponents, who held and .
Shane needed to avoid a diamond on the turn or river, and when the dealer revealed two safe cards in the form of the and the , he had eliminated two players from the tournament.
After asking him for a quick chip count, Shane reported that he now holds a stack of 590,000, which catapults him to the top of our leaderboard.
Valerie Cross opened to 14,000 from early position and a player to her immediate left re-raised to 29,500. The action folded around back to Cross, who asked how much her opponent had behind (160,000) and made the call.
Flop:
Cross checked, prompting a 32,500 bet from her opponent. Cross called.
Both players checked the turn. However, when the hit the river, Cross' opponent checked and it was Cross who took initiative, leading out for 52,000. Her opponent folded.
Albert Kim heard Brandon Steven declare himself all-in at our feature table and instantly made the call. Kim tabled the and found himself dominating the of Steven.
Last year's final table bubble boy in the WSOP Main Event needed help to survive in this last level of Day 2, but the dealer wouldn't cooperate, spreading a final board of .
Steven was eliminated while Kim padded his stack, which now contains 290,000 chips.
Looking over to the feature table set up in front of the PokerNews desk, we spotted Ricky Fohrenbach's stack looking extremely tall.
The action from one of the hands of the tournament was retold back to our reporter by Fohrenbach and two other players sitting either side of him as it happened on one of the final hands of the last level.
The hand started with the player in the hijack raising all-in for 54,000 and being called by another player in the cutoff. On the button, Fohrenback announced all in for just under 300,000, and was met with folds back to the original caller. It took him about 30 seconds to commit his stack of 250,000.
Hijack:
Cut off:
Fohrenbach:
The board ran out to give the hijack a much needed triple up, and a shocked Fohrenbach the chip lead to move up to 540,000.
Valerie Cross opened to 11,000 only to have Max Weinberg three-bet the big blind to 30,000. Cross made the call to see a flop fall.
Weinberg continued with a 25,000-chip continuation-bet only to have Cross move all in for roughly 155,000 to force an insta-fold from Weinberg as he slipped to 245,000.
and Brandon Shane in a three way all-in confrontation. Shane showed down his 
for a flopped top set and was well ahead of his opponents, who held 
and 
.
and the 
, he had eliminated two players from the tournament.
to see Young slip to roughly 75,000 in chips.
turn. However, when the 
and found himself dominating the 
of Steven.
to give the hijack a much needed triple up, and a shocked Fohrenbach the chip lead to move up to 540,000.
flop fall.
