DRAMA: The drama of the day came from Jerry Yang. With media people surrounding his table all day to see how the defending champion would play. He started off very nicely raking in a few medium sized pots, but Yang couldnt make it out of Day 2. Yang got short and shoved with A
2 only to run into an opponent with A
Q. God came through again for Yang when two pair appeared on the board and they chopped it up, but when he shoved again with A J against an opponent’s A
9 it was clear Jesus had a purpose for this other man today as a nine fell eliminating Yang. So there will be a new champion of the main event this year.
EXCITEMENT: Much of the excitement surrounded 95-yr old Jack Ury, who survived Day 1 of the main event for the 2nd straight year. How a 95-yr old man manages to sit at a poker table for 14 straight hours without any issues is beyond me. However 5 hours into play Jack Ury was eliminated. For some reason he let himself get blinded down to only 700 chips before deciding to go All-In. Ury was eliminated and left the poker room, but not before ESPN caught up with him for a ''post-game'' interview.
"I cant see, cant hear, cant walk, but I CAN play poker," said Ury.
When asked if he would be back next year to play Ury simply responded with, "If I am still alive!"
VULGAR LANGUAGE: Apparently the F-Bomb is being dropped all over the place today in amazon poker room. Causing tournament directors to make an announcement that increased the penalty for the F-bomb. Players caught directing the F-bomb towards any other person will have a 30min penalty away from the table. FUCK!!!
PHIL HELLMUTH: Phil Hellmuth is drama, action, intensity, excitement, entertainment, and vulgar language all rolled into one, and he has expressed all of it today. After losing a big hand in the middle of the day Hellmuth cursed out his opponent and then went to the rail to complain to his wife (all in front of the cameras of course). He then went on immediate TILT. However TILT seemed to help Hellmuth. He dropped half his stack down to 100,000 chips, but brought it all the way back to 180,000 after playing 6 straight hands and winning them all. An excellent time for Hellmuth to pick up some hands. When the day was over he was near the top of the leaderboard with just under 200,000 chips.
HARD MOMENT OF THE NIGHT: Just as Day 2B was coming to an end, cameras caught up to Table 1 of the main event. Sitting in seat 3 was none other than Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris just had made a great fold at his table when he folded his pocket Js post-flop against his opponents pocket Aces. It has been brought to my attention that Chuck Norris doesnt dodge pocket aces... pocket aces dodge Chuck Norris. The person who had the pocket Aces was none of then his table mate, Steve Austin. Obviously Steve Austin doesnt put his money in unless he has the 'Stone Cold' nuts. This has to go down in history as the hardest hand ever played in main event history.
PRO UPDATE: At the end of Day 2A and 2B there are still a massive number of top pros still left in the main event. Allen Cunningham, Hoyt Corkins, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harmen, Vanessa Rousso, Jeff Madsen, Johnny Chan, Mike Matusow, Patrik Antonius, and Phil Hellmuth are among the many still left.
PREVIEW: Day 3 takes place on Thursday with all the players finally in the same room. At the start of Day 3 there will be 1,300 players left in the main event. With the top 666 players getting paid we should know everyone in the money by the end of Day 3. Another blog will be coming out after Day 4 which is on Friday.... so until then lets go Hellmuth! peace.
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