Paul Tedeschi's tournament run has just come to an end at the hands of Jared Hemingway.
With a board reading Tedeschi was all in holding . On the other end, Hemingway held for a straight, and that was enough to eliminate Tedeschi.
"Man, that guy had nine lives," Aron Dermer said, who was also sitting at the table. Despite those nine live, Tedeschi was sent to the payout desk to collect for his 35th place finish.
Todd Ickow raised from middle position before Gary Vick bumped it up from the button. James Chen called from the small blind before the decision fell back on Ickow. He called for 26,000 and was all in for less then the raise.
The flop came and Chen check-called a bet from Vick.
The turn brought the and again Vick fired out a bet after Chen checked. Chen was intrigued and stuck around.
The completed the board and one last time Chen checked. Vick pushed forward another bet and was called by Chen who just needed to see what he was up against.
Vick then rolled over his qd] for trip queens and scooped the pot after Chen tabled and Ickow flipped over .
With a late surge on Day 2, Christopher Logue pulled ahead of the competition in Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, ending the day with a stack of 498,000 in his quest for his first WSOP gold bracelet. Of the 254 players who started the day, only 29 move on to Day 3.
Nipping at Logue's heels are James Chen, Jared Hemingway, Jon Seaman, Kevin Gerhart and Kate Hoang who all have over 300,000 in chips. Still in the hunt for an additional bracelet to add to their collections are Marco Johnson (224,000), Jim Collopy (433,000) and Benjamin Zamini (340,000).
There were 136 players who made it to the money today. The bubble broke just before the second break of the day with the unexpected elimination of Abdel Hamid which led to the remainder of the field (and some nursing half a big blind) to collect $2,253 for their efforts. Players who didn’t make it that far included John Monnette, David Bach, Victor Ramdin, Jeff Lisandro, Men Nguyen, Mike Wattel and Jon Turner.
Among those who did cash without moving on to Day 3 was last year’s winner Benny Glaser (120th - $2,315), Brandon Shack-Harris (92nd - $2,425), James Woods (71st - $3,116), Bruno Fitoussi (47th - $4,027) and Tuan Le (42nd - $4,027).
Players will return and need to eliminate two more before the final 27 get redrawn to the final three tables where they will play out the duration of the event.
Play resumes Saturday at 2 p.m., with the final four tables of players competing to determine the winner of the WSOP gold bracelet and first-place money of $238,620.