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2013 WSOP – the Second Day of Event #38 is in the Books
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2013-06-23 10:55
Event #38, the $2.5k NL Holdem 4-handed one of the
2013 WSOP, has played down to its final day. At the end of the second day of action, only 8 players were left standing. The chip lead has come to rest in David Pham’s possession. Pham had 911k chips bagged when the action was called. Pham’s day 2 run was everything but a walk in the park: he actually suffered a number of bad beats on his way to the top.
Needless to say, most of these bad beats came at the end of perfect hands which he just couldn’t dodge. One such occasion saw him push all-in on a board of A,7,6,A, holding pocket 7s for the set. Unbeknownst to him though, Jamie Rosen had an A,J for the higher three of a kind. To add insult to injury, the river fell a J to further improve Rosen’s hand to a boat.
Rosen had Pham’s number for much of the day, there’s no denying it: later on, the two locked horns once again and this time Pham had the obvious advantage: he had pocket rockets against Rosen’s A,J when the chips went into the middle. Two jacks landed on the flop though to turn the tables and to upset Pham once again.
Rosen did put together a good run, but in the end he faded away in 15th place.
This year’s WSOP has been pretty kind to Pham thus far: he racked up a 4th place finish in the $3k
NL Holdem 6-handed event already. Pham isn’t the only “name” player to have made the final stage of the tournament: John Juanda will be back on Day 3 as well. Juanda had a stack of 466k chips bagged.
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