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Nobody ever won a poker tournament without getting lucky along the way. Vanessa Rousso is re-building again after catching al ucky turn. On a flop of 
, Rousso's opponent bet 2,400 and Rousso called. When the turn came 
, Rousso's open put another 3,400 into the pot. Again Rousso called. Both players checked the 
river. Rousso's 
hadn't flopped much, but it turned a pair of kings. That wound up winning the pot.
Rousso is up to 144,000.
Robert Miller, one of the Day 1b chip leaders, is keeping steady here on Day 2b.
He recently busted an opponent, though he was in bad shape preflop. Miller's 
needed help against 
and found some when the board ran out 
. Miller won the 40k pot and is up to about 192,000.
Doyle Brunson raised to 2,100 from middle position and action folded around to the player in the big blind who decided to make the call.
The flop came 
and both players checked to see the 
on the turn. The big blind checked-called a 4,500 bet from Brunson.
When the came on the river, the big blind checked again, with Brunson betting 11,000.
The player in the big blind thought for a while. The ESPN cameras had been hovering over the table since the turn, leading Brunson to say "At least you'll get some TV time anyways."
Brunson's opponent ended up making the call and showed 
with Brunson mucking. When he was scooping up the chips, the player in the big blind looked in the camera and said "Hi mom."
Brunson is now down to 32,700 chips.
Watch out, Main Event players. Vanessa Selbst is building a stack, and that usually means lots of trouble for her opponents. Selbst opened the pot to 1,800 from middle position and was re-raised by a late position player to 7,200. When action passed back to Selbst, she put in a third raise to 20,200. Her opponent then five-bet almost all in, for about 60,000 total. Selbst jammed, the opponent called, and we came to the reveal.
Selbst: 
Opponent: 
Selbst's opponent did pair kings on a flop of 
, but nothing further changed from there. The turn and river were uneventful and .
As Selbst dragged the pot, she looked up to see a woman who had just joined the rail. "You're the luckiest," said Selbst. "I just got aces into ace-king. That's like the best situation in poker."
A third player remarked that he also had ace-king. "You had ace-king too?" said Selbst. "You have have gone all in too." She stacked up about 205,000 in chips and then went over to chat with her railbird for a few moments.
Just before the break we learned of a hand that made Jason DeWitt just one of a handful of (known) players to have broken the 200,000 mark.
DeWitt was part of a raising war on a 
flop where he check-raised the button's lead of 2,500 to 6,500. The button then three-bet to 10,500 leaving him just 13,300 behind. DeWitt put him all in and we had a showdown, Dewitt a country mile in front with 
versus .
The 
turn produced some outs, but to no avail as the river came the 
to award Dewitt both the pot, and the scalp. He now has 215,000.
Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
With Level 7 out of the way we have continued to see our field shrink. Amongst those who will not be returning are Nichoel Peppe, Scott Montgomery, Orel Hershiser, Trishelle Cannatella, Darvin Moon and Cydny Violette.
However this last level was a heck of a time for Gabriel Walls, who started the day off with 141,050 and is now up to 435,000 and has a lead of 100,000 over David Assouline and nearly twice as many chips as some other big stacks such as Dave Sands and Steve Billirakis.
Johnny Lodden was off to a rocky start at the beginning of the level, slipping to 90,000. Vanessa Rousso also slipped and has been hovering around the 100,000 mark for the last hour or so.
However Doyle Brunson was off to a good start of the level and worked his small stack up to 52,000, while Brandon Cantu knocked a player out to get 90,000 chips. Florian Langmann is also getting some work done and has almost 200,000 chips going into Level 8. Karina Jett has also been having a good couple of hours and is up to 160,000.
Layne Flack will be coming back from break with some major work ahead of him. He's only got 25,000 chips after folding his way out of a large pot.
Players are now racing off and coloring up those pesky green chips worth 25 and will return for Level 8 in half an hour.
We're guessing from the, "Nice call," that a tablemate directed at John Eames after the hand that Ilya Gorodetskiy shoved and Eames called. We joined them with the cards on their backs.
Eames: 
Gorodetskiy: 
Board: 
Thus we lose the plucky EPT Berlin finalist. Eames increased to 65,000.
After a player opened with a raise to 2,000 and one player flat-called, Ronnie Bardah jacked it up to 6,400. Everyone folded back to the original raiser and he folded. The flat caller thought and then jammed all in for about 25,000 total. Bardah tanked for a bit before making the call.
Bardah held the 
for two overcards against the 
of his all-in opponent.
The flop came down and Bardah whiffed on the first three. The fourth card on the board connected with him as the fell, putting him in the lead. The river completed the board with the .
Bardah was pushed the pot and the other player was eliminated. Bardah's now up to 121,300 in chips.
