The board read and Kyle Bowker had a bet of 9,500 in front of him. Tim Reilly was all in for 38,100 total and Bowker went into the tank. After several minutes, Bowker called.
Reilly:
Bowker:
Bowker's aces up were best and he advanced to tomorrow.
Olivier Busquet had a key double up with when his full house bested his opponent's trip eights to take control of their heads-up match. Shortly after, Busquet finished off his opponent to win the match.
Andy Philachack started off his shootout table by almost immediately doubling his chip stack. He managed to get heads-up with John Andrus and, eventually, win the heads-up match to earn a spot in Day 2.
Aaron Mermelstein won his table and John Richards bested Joe Kuether heads-up to move on.
World Series of Poker Hall of Famer Barry Greenstein booked the last spot in Day 2 of Event #3: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. He beat Jim McCrink heads up when he flopped a pair of tens to jump ahead of McCrink’s pair of fours and held on.
Greenstein is joined by several notable players. Andre Akkari beat out Nicholas Palma heads up about 20 minutes before Greenstein locked up his seat. Taylor Paur outlasted Kenny Hallaert in one of the longer heads-up matches of the day. Linglin Zeng, Dominik Nitsche, Jean-Robert Bellande, and Matt Glantz all made Day 2 as well.
Others were not so lucky. Simon Deadman held a large chip lead against James Dambrosio, but was unable to finish him off and, eventually, Dambrosio earned the Day 2 seat. Despite seemingly having a great time, Dan O’Brien, Antonio Esfandiari, Scott Stewart, Ben Ludlow, Jeremy Ausmus all played but were at the same table, and Jake Schwartz ended up taking the spot by outlasting them all.
Tomorrow, 50 players will return to play down to a final table. Follow all the updates on PokerNews throughout the World Series of Poker.