Event 5: Cards Fly, Players Leave

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 Ante
Players Remaining: 183 of 1,804
Average Stack: 98,500 (33 big blinds)

Ty Akbasli upbags in leading chips
Ty Akbasli upbags in leading chips

Cards are in the air and Day 2 is underway. We expect a lot of quick exits at the start before action slows when they approach the bubble.

We lost a player on the second hand of the tournament and it was just as leader Ty Akbasli was getting to his table.

“The shortest stack is going in,” Hagai Stein half-joked.

He began the day with only 17,000 and had his best friend Akbasli at the other end of the table with the biggest. Stein was in the big blind and prepared to get them in when John Ho open-shoved his stack from under the gun.

It folded to Stein and he peeped  the As for the call. He had only one overcard with As6h against Ho’s 9d9h and was eliminated early as the board ran 8s3h2cJh8h.