WSOPC Event #10: No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT

Jerry Yang - Chip Leader at end of day 2 

Day 2 of the WSOPC Thunder Valley Main Event has reached it's conclusion after a little more than 12 hours of play. The starting field of 118 was whittled all the way down to the final table of 9.

Leading the final table is a name familiar to poker fans everywhere, Jerry Yang. Yang is of course most well known for his memorable WSOP Main Event victory in 2007 that was viewed by millions on ESPN during the glory days of poker in which became the last Main Event final table of the pre-November Nine period. 

Yang now owns a Japanese restaurant in Fresno and plays poker on occasion and has spun it up here in Thunder Valley as he bagged the chip lead with 4,700,000 after a day of huge hands.

Second in chips at the end of the day was Feiyue Wu with 3,180,000. Victor Paredes of Modesto,CA finished in third with 2,700,000. 

Garrett Anaya (1,865,000) is in fourth, WSOPC ring winner Lian Liu bagged fifth place with 1,660,000, while Meng Dong has sixth place to himself as the last player with over a million having 1,120,000.

Vishnu Chada (985,000), Salas Alam (925,000) and Brian Foley (270,000), who held on as the shorty for most of the day, make up the short stacks.

 Final Table Seat Draw

1: Lian Liu - 1,660,000
2: Visnhu Chada - 985,000
3: Dong Meng - 1,120,000
4: Garrett Anaya - 1,865,000
5: Feiyue Wu - 3,180,000
6: Salas Alam - 925,000
7: Victor Paredes - 2,700,000
8: Jerry Yang - 4,700,000
9: Brian Foley - 270,000

Action of the Day

Day 2 began with 118 players and it took about two hours to reach the money bubble at 89 left. Once the money was reached players began to drop steadily including well known players, Brett Murray (89th), Jacqueline Burkhart (80th), start of day chip leader Ricardo Eyzaguirre (56th), Lexy Gavin (53rd), Andreas Kniep (38th) and Roland Israelashvili (32nd).

As the field reached the final three tables, several dramatic hands unfolded including none more so than the back-to-back elimination of Jessica Vierling in 13th place after her bluff was picked off by Dong Meng, and Viincent Moscati in 12th place after he lost a huge preflop flip to Jerry Yang which would become the main driver of Yang's rise to the chip lead.

Day 3 will start at 11 a.m local time with action at Level 26 with blinds at 20,000/40,000/40,000, where the remaining nine will play down to the WSOPC ring winner and the grand prize of $169,294.

Complete Chip Counts

Dean Freedlander - Eliminated in 10th place.

Dean Freedlander moved all in preflop and was called by Victor Paredes.

Freedlander was in a world of hurt as he had the    vs the    of Paredes.

The board ran out clean for Paredes as it came       and Freedlander became the final table bubble boy.

Dean Freedlander - Eliminated

Action was picked up on the river in a blind on blind battle. The board read      . The pot was about 125,000 and Garrett Anaya made a big over-bet of 500,000 from the small blind. 

Jerry Yang went into the tank and stood up. He considered his options for a while before calling. 

Anaya tabled the    for a flopped set and Yang mucked his cards as a portion of his stack went across the table.

Jerry Yang - 4,630,000
Garrett Anaya - 1,800,000

Jerry Yang raised on the button, Vincent Moscati three-bet from the small blind, when it was back on Yang he four-bet jammed all in. Moscati immediately stood up and looked torn as it was a huge shove for his entire healthy stack, a confrontation between two of the larger stacks left. "I don't mess around" said Yang as Moscati thought.

As the big decision on the table adjacent with Jessica Vierling and Dong Meng unfolded, Moscati waited and thought longer. After Vierling's elimination was confirmed he made the call.

It was a huge flip as Moscati had the    vs the    of Yang.

The flop sent Yang into the lead as it came    . "I told you I don't mess around" said Yang again. The turn was the   and the river came the   to whiff Moscati and send him out the door, while giving Yang the huge chip lead.

The tournament director determined that because it was the same hand, Vierling and Moscati would split the difference of 13th place and 12th place money.

Jerry Yang - 5,450,000
Vincent Moscati - 0

Action was picked up on the turn as the board read     . From under the gun, Jerry Yang bet 275,000 and Garrett Anaya called in the small blind.

The river came the  . Anaya led out with a bet of 400,000, Yang snap called.

Anaya rolled over nothing with the    and Yang tabled the winner with the   

Jerry Yang - 2,400,000
Garrett Anaya - 1,320,000

Sheldon Miller - Eliminated 

Sheldon Miller jammed his stack of 580,000 and got called by Victor Paredes, putting Miller's tournament life at risk. 

Miller tabled    and looked over at Paredes's   . 

Miller was still ahead after the flop that read    , but the turn was the  , pairing Miller's jack for a pair. The river was a blank   and Sheldon Miller busted in 16th place.

Victor Paredes - 1,700,000.
Sheldon Miller - Eliminated

Table 1

Seat 1: Salas Alam - 640,000
Seat 2: Lian Liu - 780,000
Seat 3: Scott Young - 1,080,000
Seat 4: Garrett Anaya - 1,800,000
Seat 5: Russell Okuba - 750,000
Seat 6: Scott Stewart - 375,000
Seat 7: Jerry Yang - 920,000
Seat 8: Neng Lee - 700,000
Seat 9: Cole Miller - 350,000

Table 2

Seat 1: Dean Freedlander - 1,620,000
Seat 2: Feiyue Wu - 935,000
Seat 3: Vishnu Chada - 1,220,000
Seat 4: Dong Meng - 1,1250,000
Seat 5: Vincent Moscati - 1,715,000
Seat 6: Sheldon Miller - 550,000
Seat 7: Jessica Vierling - 1,530,000
Seat 8: Victor Paredes - 1,108,000
Seat 9: Brian Foley - 250,000

Adam Saven - Eliminated 

Adam Saven moved all in preflop and was called by Vincent Moscati. 

Saven was in deep trouble as his    was dominated by the    of Moscati.

The board ran out       to end the night for Saven.

Vincent Moscati - 1,480,000
Adam Saven - Eliminated