Mikal Blomlie entered Day 2 looking for his chance to increase his short stack and found it during a wild preflop raise war that ended well for him. During the hand chip leader Do Hoang Anh raised it up to 1400, got called by the cutoff man, then reraised to 11475 all in by db Blomlie. Before action moved back to Anh, the sb player began to tank until he finally folded, Anh did the same, but the cutoff called. Blomlie had A♦ K♣ and his opponent had K♥ J♦. The board ran 3♦ A♥ 10♣ 9♠ 8♦ giving Blomlie a nice double up.
On the next hand, action checked to Blomlie on the cutoff seat and he raised it up to 1300. Button player Steve Yea reraised it up to 3000 but that did not bother Blomlie who repopped it to 17000. Yea quickly folded.