Bad Start for the Day 1b Chip Leader

Max Silver was the Day 1b chip leader, which put him second in chips at the start of the day (he was behind Day 1a chip leader Evangelos Tsairis). Unfortunately for the man from the UK, his Day 2 has gotten off to a rocky start.

In a recent hand, we happened upon the action on the river with a board reading . There was approximately 34,000 already pulled into the pot, and Bram Haenraets had his last 24,000 out in front of him in the big blind. Silver, who was on the button, was contemplating what to do. After a decent amount of time had ticked off the clock, Silver dropped in a call holding the for a rivered pair. It was no good though as Haenraets held a flush with the .