Jon Turner tries to find the marked card in the shuffled deck

A card controversy erupted on the ESPN feature table on Tuesday to kick of the second week of the 2011 World Series of Poker while a pair of other events moved closer to crowning a champion.

$1,000 No-Limit Hold’em

Coming back from dinner with thirteen left the field dwindled down to the final ten then moved to the ESPN feature stage. Odette Tremblay, Daniel Haglund, and Hunter Frey all exited before a play was halted due to an issue with the cards.

The issue came when Jon Turner noticed a mark in the 4. Upon further examination it was determined that each spade from the deuce to the five had this mark. As new decks were brought into play the players examined them for the mark, when they noticed the marks were evident in the new, just opened decks they petitioned for a stop in play so the issue could be resolved. After a short delay the tournament staff moved the players back to one of the outer tables to test the issue. The deck was spread out and the players were asked to pick out the 4, when they were unable to do so play resumed with just over two levels left for the night.

“Basically we found out that it was only visible under the stage lights”, said Turner. “I hadn’t noticed it the whole series until then [on the stage]“.

Once play resumed Lawerence Riley was eliminated in sixth place. Stefan Raffay and Max Weinberg followed him to the pay out room before the night concluded. The final three return on Wednesday at 4 pm PST to play for the bracelet and $611,185.

Here are the chip counts for the remaining three:

1. Sadan Turker – 7,910,000
2. Sean Getzwiller – 3,000,000
3. Jon Turner – 1,680,000

$1,500 Six-Handed No-Limith Hold’em

The Six-Handed format lends to a very fast paced tourney causing casualties to come fast and furious. Only 67 of the 188 players that started the day returned from dinner break. Of those 67 returning players only 15 players survived to the end of the day, including Jeffrey Papola and Alex Wice. Day 3 will resume on Wednesday at 2:30 pm with the plan to play to a winner, who will collect $544,388 and the shiny bracelet.

Here are the top six after Day 2:

1. Jeffrey Papola – 1,088,000
2. Alex Wice – 1,013,000
3. George Jalkotzy – 849,000
4. Nicholas Blumenthal – 808,000
5. David Vamplew – 698,000
6. Ryan Welch – 682,000

$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Eight or Better Championship

After only 38 of the starting 202 were eliminated on Day 1 only 81 survived to the dinner break on Tuesday. The remaining players returned from dinner with aspirations of eliminating 54 more players to get to the money. David Baker, Joe Cassidy, Bertrand Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, and Vanessa Selbts all failed to make the money. Jason Mercier rode the short stack into the money bubble, becoming the 27th place finisher. He was followed by Damjam Radanov, Raymond Dehkarghani, Amnon Filippi, and Christopher George before the night concluded.

Here are the top nine coming back for Day 3:

1. Guillaune Rivate – 809,000
2. Alessio Isaia – 535,000
3. Michael Chow – 449,000
4. Mack Lee – 410,000
5. Jason Steinberg – 403,000
6. Richard Ashby – 400,000
7. Mikael Thuritz – 372,000
8. Mike Sexton – 321,000
9. Brendan Taylor – 319,000

$1,500 Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em

After ten levels 157 players remain with 144 making the money. Joe Cada exited just before the end of day one, where he joined Miami John, Allen Kessler, and Tony Dunst. Andy Black, Andy Frankenberger, Isaac Haxton, Pascal LeFrancois, Kathy Liebert, Carlos Mortensen, and Sam Trickett, and J.C. Tran are a few notables that survived the night.

Here are the top 9 going into Day 2:

1. Peter Hernandez – 124,700
2. Jonathan Karamalikis – 122,700
3. J.C. Tran – 111,200
4. Bradley Mcfarland – 101,300
5. Steven Watts – 99,500
6. Richard Triggs – 95,700
7. Benjamin Tollerene – 95,300
8. Paul Dewald – 89,100
9. Eric Ladny – 87,500

Video

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