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We arrived on the turn of a 
board and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was facing what was either a bet or a raise of 5,500 from Kido Pham. ElkY made the call and they saw the river.
The river was the 
and ElkY checked. Pham bet another 15,000 and ElkY called, but mucked when Pham turned over 
for two pair.
Pham - up to 77,000
ElkY - doing rather less well on 9,000
Thuy Doan was checked to on a flop of 
and bet 1,100, getting called by her opponent. When the turn came down 
, Doan's opponent checked once more. When Doan bet 3,500, her opponent raised to 8,500 and Doan called.
The river was the 
and Doan's opponent bet 17,500. Doan tanked for a while before folding, leaving herself with 20,000.
Simon Trumper is well known back in the UK for his triumphant appearances on Late Night Poker, before later becoming the cardroom manager of the country's biggest cardroom.
Today, he was back at the felt, but sadly not for long as I spotted him moping through the corridors during the break:
"It's my own fault," he confessed. "There was this big hand where I had A-2 on a 2-2-Q flop. I was going to check-raise, but decided to bet and got called by 7-7. The turn was a 7 and I lost the hand, but if I'd have checked the flop, the other player in the hand said he would have gone all in with his nines and then the sevens probably would have folded."
The assassin? Serial finalist Antony Lellouche.
We have discovered a monster stack over here in the orange section of the Amazon Room. We don't know exactly how it happened, but Mr. Robert Miller has somehow upped his stack to 132,000. That seems to be chip lead, at the moment.
Orel Hershiser hadn't been having the best start to his Main Event. But things started to look better just before out last break. On a board reading 
, Hershiser moved all in for 10,050 and his opponent folded. Hershiser showed 
and arranged his new stack of 21,000 chips.
Jeremiah Smith is down to 3,500 chips after flopping a flush against an opponent.
Smith held 
on a 
board, and his opponent opened 
. The board ran 
, giving his opponent a full house unfortunately, and Smith is now on the short stack.
Just before the break...
We just caught the tail end of a pot as the dealer put the river card down on a board of 
. James Dempsey bet 8,800 with his opponent calling, and Dempsey tabled 
for the full house.
It's not much for detail, but here's the important bit. "Flushy" is up to 92,000 now and in second place on our leader board.
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
We're through with two levels here on Day 1b, and registration is going to close in just a few minutes.
It's been a good four hours of work for some of our notable notables. Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy is in his rookie season at the WSOP, and he's off to a flying start here in the Big Show. Collopy's ~100,000-chip stack puts him atop our leader board and well above average just less than halfway through his opening day. Todd "DanDruff" Witteles and James "Flushy" Dempsey both dragged big pots during Level 2 to slide into positions two and three behind Collopy. Also of note, Phil Laak showed up late, and he's already doubled his stack to about 60,000 in two hours.
On the flip side of things, the eliminations are starting to trickle our way. Mark Seif, the broken-footed Arnaud Mattern, Dan Shak, Sam Stein, Liv Boeree, Rafe Furst, and 2006 Main Event Champion Jamie Gold were among the casualties of that second level. Tracey Nguyen and Joe Sebok are getting close, both hanging on dearly to their short remaining stacks.
With the clock showing double zero, the players have been herded into the hallways for a twenty-minute break.
