We missed most of the hand but heard Steve Landfish say "I got there" as he showed three hearts from his hole to go with two on his board which gave him a flush. The flush was good against his opponent in the hand, Alexander Kostritsyn, in a battle between our two chip leaders where Landfish widened his lead dramatically while Kostritsyn took a major step back.
Chad Brown had raised and Chris Tryba made it two bets, Brown called and then took the lead in the betting when he made open queens on fourth. Tryba called him down all the way and Brown showed for just a pair of queens, Tryba turned over for kings to pip him for a decent pot.
Play has just ended for Day 2 of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship which started with 87 players and although the plan was to play down to a final table, that was not reached as 14 players remain. The chip leader is Steve Landfish with 780,000.
Landfish built his lead in a hand where he was chip leader against the second biggest stack at the time, Alexander Kostritsyn. Unfortunately we missed the hand but heard Landfish say "I got there" as he showed three hearts from his hole to go with the two on his board which gave him a flush.
Other big stacks include John Hennigan, Chad Brown, Sorel Mizzi and the afformentioned Kostritsyn. Also in the field is the defending champ Men Nguyen as well as Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier, Bertrand Grospellier and Ville Wahlbeck.
We only lost two players who made the money, Matt Hawrilenko and Matt Glantz, with Tom McCormick as the bubble boy. Others who busted but came close to cashing included Barry Greenstein, Hasan Habib, Chris Amaral and Steve Zolotow.
Players will return for play tomorrow where the players will hopefully play down to a winner starting at 3:00 p.m. in the Amazon Room again. Join us then at PokerNews for the coverage of this event as well as all of the others.
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