Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

The penultimate day of Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em is in the books with 24 hopefuls remaining. The day began just outside of the money, with 293 players vying for a spot in the money and a chance at World Series of Poker gold.

Leading the way after Day 2 was Steve Sung with 1,132,000 in chips. Sung began the day in the middle of the pack with 66,700. The California native is no stranger to WSOP glory. Sung has two no-limit hold'em WSOP gold bracelets and 25 WSOP cashes totaling $2,689,443.

One of Sung's biggest hands came with the elimination of another big-stacked player. Sung had the    versus his opponent's   . A     flop gave Sung a slew of outs, and the turn was the   followed by the   on the river.

Also bagging top stacks on Day 2 were French pro Erwann Pecheux (780,000), Thomas Dietl (774,000), and Kenneth Gregersen (770,000). Other notables include Cherish Andrews, Evan McNiff, Ty Reiman, Scott Baumstein, and Zach Gruneberg that will all return for Day 3's action.

Join us on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Amazon Room where play will resume and a new champion will be crowned. Thank you for following along the PokerNews coverage and stay tuned for more WSOP action as things work towards a winner in the 60th bracelet event of the summer.

Gabriel Muzzio moved all in preflop and Erwann Pecheux called putting Muzzio at risk.

Muzzio:   
Pecheux:   

The board ran out       and Muzzio could not improve on his flopped pair of twos and was sent to the rail.

Gabriel Muzzio

0

-55,000

We missed the action as Soshnikov busted just after the redraw was completed but Zach Gruneberg and Soshnikov were both all in preflop and covered by a third player at the table. Gruneberg tripled up on the hand with    and Soshnikov was sent to the payout booth.

Ivan Soshnikov

0

-155,000

On the turn of a board reading      there were three players involved in the pot including Kurt Jewell and, in the big blind, Cherish Andrews.

Andrews check-called a bet and the three players saw a river  . Andrews quickly went all in and while the other player folded Jewell took his time and got a count.

It was 271,000 to call, and call he did. But Andrews turned over    for the rivered full house and Jewell mucked.

Cherish Andrews	650,000	230,000
Kurt Jewell	280,000	-250,000

Josep Galindo was the twenty ninth place finisher shoving with    and getting looked by one of the big stacks, Lue Huang, with   .

Josep Galindo

0

-32,600

Lue Huang put his tournament life on the line as he moved all in preflop and was called by Ty Reiman.

Reiman:   
Huang:   

Huang was in great shape to score the double up and would have an easy sweat through the       board.

Lue Huang	360,000	306,600
Ty Reiman	110,000	-190,000

Scott Baumstein three-bet shoved over an open and his opponent wanted to know if he could turn his hand over before making a decision. It was Baumstein who was at risk and the floor ruled that he could not turn his hand up.

Baumstein gave a speech about being confident his hand was good since he hadn't been called yet. Another player then called clock but as it was only ninety seconds since Baumstein had moved all in the countdown was not started.

The player folded    face up much to the derision on the table as they were six handed and raise-folding ace-jack seemed to be frowned upon. The argument then moved on to the time being taken to make decisions slowing the game up, but just then the table was broken which put a stop to any escalation, at least for now.

Last 20-minute break of the day and time to color up the T500 chips,

The following players have been eliminated between 46th and 54th place, earning $9,688:

Martin Malone	0	-80,400
Joe McGowan	0	-51,300
Mark Rose	0	-85,000
Ari Engel	0	-62,300
Ronald Ball	0	-25,200
Shawn Wentz	0	-80,800
Michael Wasserman	0	-35,200
Simon Mattsson	0	-34,600
Dutch Boyd	0	-66,000