WSOP Event #13: 20 Players Entering Day 3

The remaining 175 players returned for Day 2 of the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em event. One of the least comfortable tables to be seated at was naturally Phil Ivey's. Plain and simple, he is running hot. Ivey set things straight from the beginning of the day.

As players hit the rail one after another, the time came for the bubble burst. However, the battle for survival was not the most interesting thing at the tables. At one of the tables, a player limped in middle position, Carter King also limped from the button, the small blind folded and then the big blind did something rather unusual, though not before the flop.

The flop came and it checked around to King who bet 3,100. The player in the big blind then slowly slid out three stacks of yellow chips for a check-raise to 15,000. The dealer politely slid them back to the player, explaining, "You don't have a hand." Apparently, the player had accidentally mucked his hand rather than checking pre-flop.

The rest of the table had a good laugh at this, wondering if he could've got others to fold without cards. The other player folded and King won a quite unique hand. Meanwhile, Phil Ivey lost two consecutive hands which crippled him down to 40,000.

The bubble was finally reached with two players getting eliminated on the same hand which meant Beth Shak was the actual bubble - she hit the rail in 119th place. The 117th place was split between Brandon Schaefer and Christian Dillon for which they earned $2,464.50 each.

Phil Ivey (pictured right) started the day well, then he lost two pots which sent him back to square one. As the play progressed, Ivey was slowly making a comeback. His first important victory on the road to recovery featured a flop of .

A short-stacked player moved all-in, two opponents checked and Ivey fired 10,000. The first player thought for a while, asked Ivey if he had jack-ten and then he finally decided to fold. The second player did the same and Ivey turned over . The short-stacked player showed 8-2. The turn brought and the river came to send the pot safely to Ivey which got him up to 85,000.

Ivey's stack got a major boost from another encounter later on. A player raised to 20,000, Ivey re-raised to 60,000, the original raiser put Ivey all-in and Ivey made the call. Ivey showed and his opponent turned over pocket kings. Thanks to a rivered ace, Ivey doubled up to 290,000 which moved him up close to the top on the leaderboard.

Just as the day was coming to an end, Ivey lost almost his entire stack. Brett Switzer raised from middle position, Ivey moved all-in from the big blind with  and Switzer called with . The board came and Switzer doubled up to 430,000 while Ivey was cut down to just 33,000.

The play came to an end with Motoyuki Mabuchi being the last player to hit the rail for the day. He was eliminated in 21st place for which he earned $14,413. Here are the top 10 stacks entering Day 3 of Event #13:

World Series Of Poker Event #13 Standings
Rank	Name	Chips
1st	Gregg Merkow	932,000
2nd	Angel Guillen	860,000
3rd	Bahador Ahmadi	800,000
4th	Keven Stammen	739,000
5th	Jeffrey Tunkel	694,000
6th	Philip R. Sousa	470,000
7th	Brett Switzer	456,000
8th	Shawn Glines	453,000
9th	Roland De Wolfe	400,000
10th	Kirill Gerasimov	390,000

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