After four grueling Day 1s, it’s finally here: Day 2 of the $300 + $30 Closer! Today promises to be no less grueling, in fact it’s likely to be a the longest day of the event so far.
220 qualifiers will start at level 15, where the blinds are 1,500/3,000, and play all the way down to a winner, so the smaller stacks will have make moves early or risk losing their chips to the rapidly increasing blinds, which go up every 30 minutes.
The four players to keep an eye on out of the gate are our chip leaders, the ones whose stacks were head and shoulders above the rest. They are: Julius Roque (790,000), Anthony Ribeiro (581,500), Tyler Adams (495,500) and Steven Terry (449,000). In fact, only 16 players were able to collect more than 200,000 in the qualifying rounds, meaning the first four hours of today’s action is likely to see some very stiff competition, and a healthy number of bust-outs in the early going as well.
Players have now taken their seats, the dealers are ready, and cards officially are in the air, let’s go! Good luck!
, and Lorne called with his 
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. The fortuitous board extended his play – for now. But with only a handful of blinds left, he’ll have to get even luckier to last all the way to the end of level 14.
. Eight checks later, the dealer flipped over the turn, a 
. This time there were five checks, but sensing this was his moment, Jonathan English bet 5,000. That was enough to chase everyone except Valon Gruda, who called.
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came down on the river, and for the first time this hand, Benjamin opened, betting 10,000. He was quickly re-raised to 27,000 by Sopheak. Both players suspected the other had a six, and they were right. Benjamin jammed over top, Sopheak called, and they chopped the pot.
turn and 
river were no help to Chris, and She sent him packing.
