Martin Jacobson has just scored a huge double up through Steven Tripp to take the overall chip lead in the tournament – a dangerous state of affairs for the rest of the players in the tournament notwithstanding the fact that there’s a long way to go today.
Martin opened the action with a preflop raise to 1.2M. Action folded around to Steven, who 3bet to 4.8M – only to be immediately faced with a re-pop to 10M from the World Champ. Tripp responded with a strong shove and Martin called – the two relatively big-stacked players would have a showdown.
Steven had much the better of things preflop, as he turned over 
while Martin was playing 
– even running flush cards would be no help for Jacobson.
The flop turned the situation on its head: 
to put Martin well in the lead, and there were no miracle saves to come for Steven on the 
turn and river. Martin’s stack was counted down to 38,750,000, and he’s now playing over 80M in chips.
Here’s a photo of Martin Jacobson from yesterday’s Day 2 action:
