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With 2,750 in the pot on a 
flop, Dennis Scott checked and Johannes Strassman moved all-in. Scott called off the 15,425 he had behind and turned up 
for bottom set. Strassman was looking to fill his open-ended straight draw with 
.
The turn, however was the 
and the river was the 
. Strassman missed and was left with 4,300 in chips while Scott raked in the substantial pot.
Andre Akkari's stack has slipped below the starting 30,000 after a recent pot. He was one of three players in the pot to turn, 
. After an unknown player and Akkari both checked, the third player bet 3,500. Only Akkari called. He and his opponent both checked the river. Akkari's opponent showed down 
for two pair, jacks and nines, to take the pot.
After a player raised from middle position, Grayson Physioc reraised to 2,700 from late position. His opponent made the call and the flop came down 
.
Both players checked to see the 
fall on the turn. The first player checked and then Physioc fired 3,600. His opponent called. The river completed the board with the 
and Physioc fired 5,200 after his opponent bet. He was called.
Physioc tabled the 
for top pair and won the pot, moving to 39,000 in chips.
Facing a raise to 800, Jimmy Fricke moved all in from the button for his last 3,350 only to have the small blind isolate to 6,500. The original raiser folded and we were off to a showdown.
Fricke: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
to see Fricke eliminated.
Jimmy Fricke moved all in over one middle-position limper for his last 3,050. Everyone folded back to the limper, who thought for a moment and then flung his cards in.
"No balls," he said after he mucked.
On the next hand, there was a board laid out in the middle of 
. One payer fired a bet of 1,500 into Soren Kongsgaard. Kongsgaard raised the bet to 4,400 and his opponent mucked, moving Kongsgaard to about 56,000 in chips.
Rui Cao was heads up on a 
board with about 8,500 already in the middle. Cao's opponent bet out, and he moved all in for 11,300 total. The other player snap-called with a jack, but Cao turned over pocket fours to double up with a boat.
On a board reading 
Jimmy Fricke moved all in as Robert Radziemski made the call for his tournament life.
Fricke:
Radziemski: 
The river landed the to send Radziemski up to 53,500 while Fricke slipped down to 4,000 in chips.
In a four-way pot, action checked to an unknown player. With the flop showing 
, that player bet 1,800 and was called by all three of his opponents, including Jordan Morgan and Dan Makowsky. When the turn fell , action checked all the way to Morgan, who was last to act. He tried a bet of 5,225 that was called by the small blind and by Makowsky. All three checked the river. The small blind turned over 
to collect the pot with top two pair.
We're ready to make an early prediction about who will be featured prominently in ESPN's Day 1a episode. Maria Ho is sitting pretty and looking chippy after a few fortunate hands, and the producers have noticed. The cameras swarmed to catch her stacking Jeremiah DeGrief, who was all in for 11,875 with . Ho turned over . DeGrief player tried to find the silver lining. "I could totally suck out and get on tv! This is awesome!"
But the board fell 
, and he didn't get there. Ho's aces held up to boost her ratings to 78,000.
Everybody wants to take a shot at a champion. Most of those people will try to out-draw a champion; some will try to out-bluff a champion. At Chris Moneymaker's table, Moneymaker led out for 1,100 on a flop of 
. He was raised by an opponent to 3,200.
"If I fold will you show?" Moneymaker asked. His opponent made no response, so Moneymaker tried a different tack. "What's your name?"
"Jeremy."
"Jeremy, if I fold will you show?"
Jeremy agreed to show if Moneymaker folded. Moneymaker then folded 
and was shown a stone bluff, .
