Players are on the bubble with 46 runners still remaining in Level 20 of Event 2. Between the first break and now action has continued at a quick pace – we’ll see soon if this is destined to be a long or a short bubble.

The bubble-plus-one hand was one of those hands that is arguably more rare on the bubble, but often unavoidable regardless of where the tournament is at the moment.

Blinds were 5K/10K/a1K and the player in the cutoff makes a big preflop raise to about 5x the big blind. The player in the BB – local player Costa Psallidas – had just made a big fold to the same player a few hands previous, but looks down at and shoves. Jeremy Smith in seat 3 snap calls and flips over and Costa was in dire shape. The board ran out and the on the turn spelled the end of Costa’s day. The river was a blank .

We’ve reached the first break of the day and the early action was fierce. The 91 players who started the day has shrunk to just 54. Some of the early casualties were some good local players including Players Club member Chanracy Khun and Eric Afriat, who was among the chip leaders to start the day.

The money bubble for Event 2 is just 9 players away so action should slow considerably.

Here are some early photos from Event 2 Day 2. You can see the whole gallery at Facebook.

Event 2, a $500 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack tournament, attracted 439 total entries and the 91 players who made it through Day 1a and Day 1b are at their tables playing down for a $212,915 prize pool with $50K for first place. The plan is to play today until a 10-player final table is set.

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