Welcome to PokerNews' Day 2 coverage of Event #2: $10,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em Championship.
A total of 102 teams took to the felt on Day 1, generating a prize pool of $958,800. After 10 one-hour levels, only 51 teams remain in the hunt to capture the first-place prize of $273,964 and coveted World Series of Poker gold bracelets.
On top of the chip counts entering Day 2 are the defending tag team champions. Doug Polk and Ryan Fee won the $1,000 Tag Team event last summer, and their team leads the way into Day 2. Joined this time by Jason Mo (captain) and Michael Finstein, they bagged a leading stack of 240,600.
The teams rounding out the top five are Christopher Staats - Roland Israelashvili - Orlando Romero (216,400), JC Tran - Nam Le - Antonio Gutierrez (207,000), Stephen Chidwick - Dan Smith (204,500), and Jack Salter - Dzmitry Urbanovich (192,300).
The plan for the day is to play 10-and-a-half levels and the field is likely to reach the final table by then. The cards will be in the air at 2:00 p.m., so be sure to check back then for live updates on the action.
Below is the Day 2 table and seat draw listed by team captains:
Michael Addamo got it all in preflop versus Koray Aldemir. Aldemir tabled and Addamo showed .
The board ran out and Addamo was left with 1,800 in chips.
On the very next hand, Addamo pushed all in for his remaining 1,500 and after Aldemir isolated from the big blind they were heads-up to the flop. Aldemir showed and Addamo tabled .
Martin Jacobson was on the button and raised to 5,000. Jack Salter was in the big blind and called.
The flop was and Salter checked. Jacobson followed up his pre-flop raise with a bet of 6,000. After some deliberation, Salter check-raised to 17,500 and Jacobson released his hand.
There is a very interesting dynamic on this table with 6-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu in seat 3, 2014 WSOP Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson, in seat 4, 3-time WSOP bracelet winner Michael Gathy, in seat 5 and Jack Salter in seat 6 who is fresh off of winning two events in the Recent Monte Carlo Series for over $250,000 and has over $6 million in career live recorded earnings.
David Eldridge raised to 5,500 from under the gun, Cole Jackson three-bet shoved from middle position for 31,200, Moritz Dietrich called from the big blind, and Eldridge folded.
Jackson:
Dietrich:
The board came down , giving Dietrich a set of kings to eliminate Jackson and his team.
Jack Salter raised to 6,500 from early position, Daniel Negreanu called from the small blind, and Martin Jacobson called from the big blind.
The flop came down and action checked over to Salter who continued for 11,000. Negreanu check-raised to 27,000, Jacobson folded, Salter reraised all in for about 42,000, and Negreanu called.
The turn was the , giving Salter the lead with a king-high flush. However, the river delivered the to give Negreanu threes full of fives to eliminate Salter.
The team of Lauren Roberts, Haixia Zhang and Lisa Hamilton were the only all-female team to make it to Day 2 and represented themselves very well in this inaugural event.
Lisa Hamilton was relatively short-stacked with about 40,000 when she got it all in preflop versus Ryan Fee.
Fee tabled and Hamilton showed . The board ran out and it was no help for Hamilton.
This brings us to 28 players remaining and one elimination from the final 3 table re-draw.
Jogador
Fichas
Progresso
Jason Mo - Doug Polk - Ryan Fee - Michael Finstein
Matthew Lapossie was in early position and raised to 10,000. Carlos Mortensen was in the hijack and announced all in. Action then folded to Javier Gomez in the big blind who also moved all in for roughly 235,000. Lapossie folded and Mortensen was at risk.
Gomez tabled and Mortensen showed .
The flop was and Mortensen picked up a flush draw and straight draw to go with his overcard.
The turn was the and the river was the bricking off for Mortensen and eliminating the former WSOP Main Event Champion.
Players are now re-drawing seats and the new draw and stacks will be updated shortly.
Just prior to the three-table redraw, the defending champions of the Tag Team event were eliminated as Ryan Fee fell to Igor Kurganov.
As told to us by Kurganov, Fee opened to 10,000 in middle position and Dylan Wilkerson three-bet to 38,000 from the small blind. Kurganov four-bet jammed with the biggest stack of the bunch from the big blind and Fee called all in for about 240,000. Wilkerson tanked for a bit before he folded ace-king.
Fee tabled pocket kings, but Kurganov turned over pocket aces. Fee found no help from the runout, busting in 27th place while Kurganov has grabbed the chip lead for his team.
Eric Wasserson was under the gun and raised to 15,000. Dietrich Fast defended his big blind.
The flop was and Fast checked. Wasserson bet 16,000 and Fast quickly called.
The turn was the and Fast check-called Wasserson's bet of 36,000.
The river was the and Fast checked again. Wasserson fired out a bet of 85,000 sending Fast into the tank. Fast eventually called and Wasserson tabled . Fast's cards went into the muck.
Wasserson played about three hands for their team and then ran back to his PLO tournament.
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and Addamo showed 
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and Addamo was left with 1,800 in chips.
and Addamo tabled 
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and Addamo's team hit the rail.
and action checked to Fernandez. He fired out a bet of 8,000 and Kurganov called, Yu folded.
(overcards, flush draw)
, giving Salter the lead with a king-high flush. However, the river delivered the 
and Hamilton showed 
. The board ran out 
and it was no help for Hamilton. 
