Shawn Daniels raised to 1,500 and Brian Borne three-bet to 2,500 from two seats over. Owen Crowe in the small blind four-bet to 10,500 and just Borne called. On the flop of , Crowe continued for 12,000 and Borne moved all in for around 85,000, Crowe called with the superior stack.
Brian Borne:
Owen Crowe:
The on the turn was a blank, but Borne got there with the on the river.
One hand later, Crowe was all in for his last 7,700 with the and had a flip against Unn Choi's . The flop gave Choi top two pair, and the turn and river failed to improve the Canadian.
The cards are in the air for both Day 2a and 2b, which can be found in separate rooms. Day 2a will break from high to low and the tables in the Orange section will break into Purple, while Day 2b will see the Black and Green sections break first.
The dinner break will take place after the first two levels, followed by another three levels before bagging and tagging.
After three massive starting days, the second-largest WSOP Main Event in history continues today with Day 2a and Day 2b. At 11 a.m. this morning, the 659 survivors of Day 1a and 1,801 players who bagged on Day 1b, will return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for five more levels of play.
While the players from both starting days will both enter's today action, the two groups will play their second day in separate rooms. The Top 10 of both Day 2s combined is as followed:
#
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Truyen Nguyen
United States
Day 1a chipleader
324,800
541
2
Chris Fraser
United Kingdom
316,100
527
3
Smain Mamouni
France
Day 1b chipleader
311,000
518
4
Samuel Bernabeu
Spain
309,500
516
5
Barbara Rogers
United States
307,000
511
6
Daniel Colpoys
United States
246,800
411
7
Alex Foxen
United States
242,300
404
8
David McCaw
United States
220,400
367
9
John Vossoughi
United States
220,300
367
10
Matthew Davidow
United States
216,600
361
Another five two-hour long levels are scheduled for today with blinds starting at 300/600 with a 100 ante. Once again there will be a 20-minute break after each level, with a 60-minute break after the second level of the day (around 3:25 p.m.). Play wraps up around 11 p.m. tonight.
Level
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
6
300
600
100
7
400
800
100
8
500
1,000
100
9
600
1,200
200
10
800
1,600
200
The early dinner break in the Main Event today is to accommodate the broadcast of the tournament on ESPN and PokerGO. ESPN picks up the action after the dinner break, showing the feature table with hole cards up from 05:00 p.m. through 08:00 p.m. Right after the ESPN telecast wraps up, PokerGO takes over, showing the Main Event from 08:00 p.m. till the day ends around 11:35 p.m.
PokerNews will have a big team of poker reporters on the ground to find all the WSOP Live Updates you can ask for again. The money stage of the tournament (1,182 players picking up $15,000 minimum) will not be reached today, but you can bet on it that the action will be exciting. So check back at 11 a.m. for continuing coverage of the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event, right here on PokerNews.com.