Event #48: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Restarts at 1.00 p.m.
The surviving 201 players from a total field of 996 will resume play in Event #48: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em this afternoon with ten one-hour levels already under their collective belt and ten more on the cards for today’s Day 2. Three-quarters of those unbagging today will make the money: 150 will be paid a minimum of $3,746 from the $2,241,000 total prize pool.
With a truly international field taking to the felt, there are multiple prior bracelet winners floating around the Amazon Room like sharks circling their prey. Brock Parker, Josh Arieh, Martin Jacobson, Kristen Bicknell, David “Bakes” Baker plus current second and third in chips Barny Boatman and Mark Radoja are just a few of the decorated players hoping to add to their jewelry collection.
Others unpacking sizeable stacks include Antal Mezei (246,400), Danish player Sebastian Percy-Smith (245,000) and the Day 1 chip leader Baitai Li, who with 354,800 returns with considerably more ammunition than any of his 200 opponents.
Cards return to the air with the blinds rising to 800/1,600 and antes of 1,600 at 1.00 p.m. in the Amazon Room. Rejoin PokerNews for live coverage from then until a champion is crowned on Sunday.
, all in preflop vs. button (and initial raiser, subsequent caller) Stefan Ivanov's 
. The queens had held until the river, the board 
and Ivanov was in the process of absorbing Spears' chips into his own healthy stack. 
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. Both players checked and the 
landed on the turn.
on the river. Jacobson announced all in and Simunic dipped into the tank with around 55,000 still in front of him. The money bubble was on the horizon and Simunic thought for over three minutes. He eventually slid his cards to the muck and Jacobson collected the pot.
. Simunic checked, Olisar bet and was check-raised to 26,000. Action back on Olisar, he raised again, to 60,000. Simunic, with a total remaining stack 157,000, went into the tank for longer than Olisar spent in there before his three-bet. Finally, he moved all-in and was called.
and Olisar, who'd been approaching 500,000, had to even up stacks with Simunic.
. Arieh led out for 24,000 and Bicknell made the call. Both players checked through the 
turn and 
river and it was a battle of the aces at showdown, Bicknell's 
beating Arieh's 
runout brought no drama which sent Cohen to the rail.
already being burned. Li tabled 
completed the board and Acevedo was eliminated.
and Stephenson made two pair to eliminate Slobodskoy.
on the river was much of the same.
