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Day 2 Ends with an Assault by Jessica on 12.16.09, 2:25 am

People start to get a little loopy at the end of a tournament day and today was no exception. The table on the main stage featuring Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire (pictured left), Darryll “DFish” Fish, Sam “KingKobeMVP” Stein and Carter “ckingusc” King decided to supplement their tournament action with a little propbetting. Were they betting sports? Well, sorta. One of the TVs here in the Fontana Lounge is broadcasting ESPN Classic and the station was showing an old episode of “American Gladiators.” King and Devonshire proceeded to prop bet on the results of the various physical challenges and, when we last checked in, the two were even on the bets thanks to a particularly brutal round of Assault.

For those who may be too young to remember, Assault was the Gladiator challenge in which the contestants had to navigate an obstacle course and dodge balls being fired at them by a Gladiator with a glorified nerf gun. King needed the female contestant to make it through the obstacle course unscathed. Instead, she got walloped with a ball before reaching the first hideout and was out.

Oh, wait a minute, you’re probably here to check on the tournament progress, huh?

Well, Day 2 is done and the unofficial count indicates that 131 players will return tomorrow for the next day of action. One of the chip leaders is Brent “BHanks11” Hanks, who ended the day with around 375,000. Meanwhile, Day 1 chip leader Darryll “DFish” Fish had a rough level and ended the day with just 55,000.

It was a Bellagio Cup IV rematch that resulted in Mike “SirWatts” Watson doubling up late in the day. Watson’s Bellagio Cup final tablemate John Phan raised to 5,500 in early position with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 ante. Steve Brecher called from the button and Watson then moved all-in from the big blind for an additional 32,100. Phan thought for a while in his patented fashion before calling and Brecher showed his pocket jacks before folding.
It was a good read from Brecher, as Phan had KK and Watson held AA. The aces held as the board ran out J64Q5 and Watson doubled up to 75,000 chips shortly before the day came to an end.

Amit “amak316” Makhija also chipped up late in the day when he raised to 5,200 under the gun and got callers in late position and on the button. Action checked to the player on the button after the flop fell 653. The player on the button bet 11,500, Makhija called and the third player in the hand folded. The turn brought the 7 and Makhija checked again. The other player bet out 17,000 and Makhija called. Both players checked when the 9 fell on the river and Makhija showed QQ for a queen high flush. His opponent mucked and Makhija raked the pot to up his stack to 175,000.

The chip counts and seating assignments for Day 3 are included below:

0 1 STEVEN LANDFISH 385,900 54 7
11 2 BRENT HANKS 383,000 59 6
12 3 MATTHEW WAXMAN 377,500 53 7
13 4 CHAD BATISTA 355,000 57 4
14 5 SOREL MIZZI 348,000 53 2
15 6 ALFREDO LEONIDAS 347,300 56 5
16 7 FARAZ JAKA 323,500 55 2
17 8 YEGOR TSURIKOV 317,000 64 5
18 9 ERIC HERSHLER 314,800 51 2
19 10 JEAN-NOEL THOREL 310,100 59 4
20 11 KENNA JAMES 305,200 56 7
21 12 MATTHEW STOUT 300,800 51 6
22 13 ANTONIO ESFANDIARI 289,900 61 4
23 14 MICHAEL MCCLAIN 288,200 50 5
24 15 DOYLE BRUNSON 283,000 58 8
25 16 JOE ELPAYAA 280,500 59 5
26 17 BRIAN LAMKIN 265,700 57 5
27 18 ABRAHAM MOSSERI 262,800 53 3
28 19 RUSSELL BOYD 260,900 54 8
29 20 HARRY KAZAZIAN 259,900 55 1
30 21 HASAN HABIB 254,300 50 8
31 22 DAVID ULLIOTT 247,000 60 2
32 23 MIKE SOWERS 243,300 60 6
33 24 HENRY SO 243,200 50 3
34 25 JOSEPH CASSIDY 242,600 53 4
35 26 ADAM JUNGLEN 242,000 63 7
36 27 DANNY WONG 240,000 63 3
37 28 JONATHAN TURNER 229,900 50 6
38 29 VIVEK RAJKUMAR 229,600 59 9
39 30 JEREMY BROWN 229,300 51 8
40 31 BARRY GREENSTEIN 227,000 53 8
41 32 CURT KOHLBERG 223,500 54 9
42 33 CORNEL CIMPAN 216,500 56 3
43 34 JOHN CERNUTO 215,500 54 2
44 35 SCOTT NGUYEN 211,900 62 4
45 36 HOWARD LEDERER 210,300 54 3
46 37 JOSHUA ARIEH 209,700 61 8
47 38 DANNY ALAEI 205,800 62 9
48 39 FARSHAD FARDAD 200,600 62 5
49 40 AMNON FILIPPI 200,000 58 7
50 41 GARY HAGLUND 198,000 50 4
51 42 JAMES LEE 195,600 64 9
52 43 ANDREW LICHTENBERGER 193,700 63 1
53 44 BENJAMIN ROBERTS 193,100 62 6
54 45 SOHEIL SHAMSEDDIN 188,000 53 1
55 46 KEN LIMAHAI 185,500 63 5
56 47 BRANDON TERRY 185,000 64 7
57 48 JAMES MACKEY 180,800 63 2
58 49 CARTER KING 178,300 58 1
59 50 BILL KONTARATOS 169,500 58 6
60 51 JAMIE ROSEN 166,300 61 5
61 52 JULIEN STUDLEY 163,800 53 9
62 53 MICHAEL WOO 163,100 56 6
63 54 CARLOS MORTENSEN 158,900 61 9
64 55 CHRIS FERGUSON 157,800 62 7
65 56 CONRAD GRANATH 145,700 61 7
66 57 DANIEL CONTE 144,400 51 3
67 58 RICHARD HARROCH 144,000 57 8
68 59 AMIT MAKHIJA 142,000 60 4
69 60 KEITH HAWKINS 138,600 50 1
70 61 BRANDON STEVEN 138,200 57 2
71 62 LEE SALEM 137,900 60 1
72 63 ERIC LYNCH 134,800 53 5
73 64 RAFAEL PERRY 132,700 51 5
74 65 JOHNSON JUANDA 130,900 55 3
75 66 DAVID PEAT 130,000 56 1
76 67 ERIK SEIDEL 127,400 57 1
77 68 RICHARD BUKOVINSKY 124,400 50 7
78 69 ANDY BLOCH 123,800 63 8
79 70 DANIEL STERN 120,200 54 6
80 71 DANIEL OBRIEN 117,400 62 1
81 72 JON LUU 114,600 52 8
82 73 JEFFREY GIBRALTER 112,600 60 8
83 74 STEPHEN ODWYER 110,900 55 8
84 75 CORY CARROLL 108,400 50 2
85 76 BRYAN DEVONSHIRE 108,200 63 4
86 77 SHAWN BUCHANAN 107,100 56 9
87 78 TODD TERRY 106,600 61 3
88 79 GREGORY JAMISON 104,200 52 4
89 80 YEVGENIY TIMOSHENKO 103,700 52 5
90 81 ALEXANDER KEATING 102,700 58 2
91 82 MICHAEL LAM 100,000 59 3
92 83 EMELINE BOICH 99,300 57 6
93 84 PETER GOULD 98,800 55 6
94 85 TOM DWAN 97,000 64 3
95 86 GLEN CHORNY 94,400 58 5
96 87 BENJAMIN PALMER 94,400 62 2
97 88 DAVID PHAM 93,700 56 2
98 89 KEVEN STAMMEN 92,700 54 5
99 90 GAVIN SMITH 90,000 61 2
100 91 JOSEPH SEROCK 88,700 64 2
101 92 JOHN PHAN 88,400 64 4
102 93 PETER JETTEN 87,700 52 9
103 94 RAYMOND SAIDE AZAR 84,000 61 1
104 95 BRYN KENNEY 82,400 64 8
105 96 ANDREW ROBL 81,400 52 2
106 97 TIMOTHY WEST 79,900 59 2
107 98 TIMOTHY DAVIS 75,000 52 1
108 99 STEVEN BRECHER 72,000 54 4
109 100 MICHAEL WATSON 70,900 63 6
110 101 ELIJAH BERG 70,300 62 3
111 102 BRIAN RAST 69,400 55 7
112 103 MICHAEL MATUSOW 67,800 51 4
113 104 MARK GREGORICH 64,200 59 8
114 105 ISAAC BARON 63,300 57 3
115 106 KRISTY GAZES 63,200 51 1
116 107 SCOTT EPSTEIN 62,500 64 6
117 108 VADIM TRINCHER 57,300 60 5
118 109 JARED HAMBY 55,400 59 1
119 110 DARRYLL FISH 55,000 60 9
120 111 STEPHEN ZOLOTOW 53,700 58 4
121 112 ALAN SMURFIT 53,600 60 7
122 113 JOSEPH PULLIAM 52,700 56 8
123 114 NOAH BOEKEN 51,100 59 7
124 115 NAM LE 48,800 52 3
125 116 MARK DICKSTEIN 48,200 51 7
126 117 MOSHE ELAZAR 48,200 62 8
127 118 MARKUS GONSALVES 46,700 60 3
128 119 CHRISTOPHER MOORE 43,500 55 9
129 120 HOYLT CORKINS 41,700 58 3
130 121 NARENDRA BANWARI 41,100 54 1
131 122 KENNY TRAN 36,400 52 6
132 123 BENJAMIN ZAMANI 35,000 57 7
133 124 RUSSELL ROSENBLUM 33,900 64 1
134 125 KENNETH WEINER 30,400 53 6
135 126 SETH FISCHER 28,900 52 7
136 127 WILLIAM KLEIN 25,100 56 4
137 128 TODD BRUNSON 24,600 55 4
138 129 NOAH SCHWARTZ 20,800 55 5
139 130 MOHAMMAD MOEINI 18,600 61 6
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