We caught the aftermath of an all-in confrontation involving Paul Ratchford and an unknown opponent. The final board read and Ratchford had moved all-in for his last 18,900. His opponent made the quick call and turned over the for trip kings and top kicker.
Ratchford revealed the for trip queens on the flop and a rivered full house. With just three outs to take the pot, Ratchford had caught the perfect river card and doubled through his stunned opponent. He now sits with just over 42,000 after the victory.
Melanie Weisner opened for 2,400 from the hi-jack and the player on the button re-raised to 5,400. Weisner tanked and asked how much her opponent had behind - about 30,000. Weisner then announced she was all-in and her opponent didn't take too long to slide his cards into the muck.
We passed by a table and noticed two players all-in with the flop reading . Brett Shaffer held and his opponent tabled , putting Shaffer's pair of jacks well in the lead. His opponent needed to spike a seven or an eight to come from behind and claim the pot.
Turn:
River:
Shaffer's opponent missed his draws and was eliminated from contention early in Day 2.
We passed by defending Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel's table just in time to catch him all-in against Francisco Torres. Duhamel held but found himself dominated by the held by Torres.
The flop fell and Duhamel stood to shake Torres' hand, as if he knew a victory today just wasn't in the cards. The turn came and the river fell to confirm Duhamel's premonition and he exited the Amazon Room in defeat.
Torres climbed to just over 40,000 with the knockout and Duhamel will have to wait for another day to follow up last year's main Event victory.
As we made the rounds through the Purple section of the Amazon Room, we were approached by Jeff Blenkarn, who handed us a slip of paper with his table and seat number and chip count.
"Are you PokerNews? Are you doing the updates for this event?" he asked nervously. "I'd like you to update my chip count please. It'll save me from having to text my family and friends back home."
We enquired as to whether this was his starting chip counts. "No sir," Blenkarn replied with a smile. "I just doubled up!"
Welcome back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for Day 2 of WSOP Event #38!
From 2,192 players, we're now down to just 298 - just 82 bust-outs from the money. The man who leads them all is Jonathan Spinks, who already has an impressive resume. Known online as "EMSBas", Spinks has racked up over $2.2 million in earnings, as well as almost $300,000 in tournament cashes since 2007. But it should be noted that he's already picked up three WSOP, with two of them being final table appearances this year!
Spinks comes back today with 113,600 in chips, but Gabriel Alarie (122,800), David Rounick (121,200), Josh Mancuso (108,700) and Thomas Lutz (106,800) will be hot on his heels. There's still plenty of star power in this field too, including such names as 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel (13,500), Melanie Weisner (55,600), Bernard Lee (19,200), Sam Trickett (45,300) and Justin "Boosted J" Smith (32,300).
The cards will be in the air at 2.30pm PST (GMT -7) so stay with us here at PokerNews as we bring you live updates from the Amazon Room. Let's make it happen, cap'n!
and Ratchford had moved all-in for his last 18,900. His opponent made the quick call and turned over the 
for trip kings and top kicker.
for trip queens on the flop and a rivered full house. With just three outs to take the pot, Ratchford had caught the perfect river card and doubled through his stunned opponent. He now sits with just over 42,000 after the victory.
. Brett Shaffer held 
and his opponent tabled 
, putting Shaffer's pair of jacks well in the lead. His opponent needed to spike a seven or an eight to come from behind and claim the pot.
but found himself dominated by the 
held by Torres.
and Duhamel stood to shake Torres' hand, as if he knew a victory today just wasn't in the cards. The turn came 
and the river fell 
to confirm Duhamel's premonition and he exited the Amazon Room in defeat.
