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Since knocking out William Thorson and increasing his count to about 17 million, John Racener has been on the rampage. He is opening lots of pots pre-flop, daring the other players to play against him. Without much fanfare or bravado, Racener has increased his count to 21 million.
Duy Le raised to 375,000 before the flop, and Benjamin Statz called out of the big blind to see a flop.
Heads-up, it came 
, and both men checked. On the 
turn, Statz fired out a leading bet of 500,000, and Le flatted to see the 
to appear on fifth street. Not slowing down now, Statz grabbed eight of his new almond chips and made a bet of 2 million straight. that did the trick; Le folded, and Statz dragged the pot.
We'll see how players at the secondary feature table adjust (if at all) against John Racener after he showed down a weak hand against Michael Mizrachi. Racener opened for 360,000 from the cutoff with 
. Mizrachi defended his big blind to a flop of 
. Both players checked.
The turn paired the board, 
, and brought a bet of 350,000 from Mizrachi. Racener called to the 
river, which again both players checked. Racener's made tens and eights and took down the pot.
Pascal LeFrancois limped into the pot before Patrick Eskandar shoved all in for 830,000 total. LeFrancois called with 
and Eskandar was in the lead with 
but at risk for his tournament life. It's one of the more subdued all ins we've seen in the last two days and the spectators seemed to barely even realize that a critical pot was in progress.
The board ran out 
, and that held Eskandar's ace-high to earn him that much-needed double up. He's back to 1.7 million now, but still the shortest stack in the room.
If you feel like we're writing a lot of posts about Scott Clements, it's because he's playing a lot of pots. He opened from late position for 405,000 and was called only by big blind Brandon Steven. Steven smoked a check before an 
was on board. Clements led out for 505,000, with Steven then choosing to call. Steven checked again on the 
turn. When Clements fired a second bullet for 1,215,000, Steven folded his hand.
Steven is now down to about 3.47 million. Clements has roughly 7.6 million.
There is a rule in place at the WSOP regarding the sponsorship logos and patches that players are allowed to wear when they're playing on television tables.
Rule #50 states, in part:
B.i.: During all events taped for television coverage, and at the start of each television taping day, no more than three (3) players at the Final Table – and all other tables featured for television coverage – will be allowed to wear apparel with logos, patches or promotional language from the same entity.
All three of our remaining tables are obviously being filmed for television, but it appears that this outer table is working under a different set of rules. The table is physically different, to be sure -- there are no hole card cameras or microphones on the players -- and it seems that Rule 50-B does not apply here.
We currently have four players sharing the same sponsor logos over here on this outer table. Benjamin Statz, Soi Nguyen, Pascal LeFrancois, and Patrick Eskandar are all patched up with Full Tilt Poker logos. The players were instructed not to add or remove any patches during the course of today's action (as per Section iii of that rule), but it looks like these four men are allowed to sit together under the same logo.
Jason Senti just got a walk in the big blind and showed two kings. Although they may have been cracked, Senti would've loved to have gotten to play then.
Jason Senti raised to 380,000. Filippo Candio reraised to 1.075 million from the small blind and Senti made the call.
The two players saw the flop come down 
. Candio checked and Senti checked behind. The turn brought the to pair the board and also complete a possible flush draw. Candio fired 1.5 million and Senti made the call.
The river completed the board with the 
and Candio fired 3.175 million. Senti folded and Candio raked in the big pot.
William Thorson must have thought he had the right conditions for a big blind squeeze. He saw John Dolan open for 375,000 and John Racener and Brandon Steven both call in position. Thorson had 
, not the worst hand in the case of a call. He moved in for about 5.0 million total. Dolan and Steven folded, but Racener did not. He called with a concealed monster, .
But Thorson and Racener were going to get a sweat after a flop of 
gave Thorson a diamond flush draw. "Black deuce!" called out a spectator on the rail. Sure enough, the turn came . It was another black card on the river, , that sent Thorson home in 22nd place.
After the river came down, Racener immediately pointed up at the spectator on the elevated rail who had called for a black deuce. "That's my boy!" he seemed to say. Then he shook Thorson's hand and collected his chips.
Soi Nguyen raised to 350,000 to open the pot, and Duy Le reraised to 1.35 million with position. Nguyen called, and the two men went heads up the rest of the way.
The flop came out , and it was check-checked to the 
turn. Nguyen tapped the table again, and Le fired out 1.4 million chips. Nguyen called, and that brought them to the on the river, double pairing the board. Nguyen decided to fire, and he announced an all in. Le called all in for 2.75 million before the words were even out of Nguyen's mouth, and the latter sunk in his chair.
Showdown
Nguyen: 
Le: 
"That's the record for the fastest call," Adam Levy said from across the table.
Benjamin Statz chimed in too: "I don't know what kind of Jedi mind trick you did to get the turn and river to come like that," he said to Le.
After that pot, Le finds himself sitting with twice as many chips -- 11.4 million of them, in fact. Nguyen has taken his biggest hit in a long time, and he's fallen back to 14.1 million now.
