All in on a flop, it looked like a massive cold deck tragedy for Chris Elliot -- until the turn and river made him a full house, doubling him up to around 60,000 and leaving his opponent with mere shrapnel.
Annette Obrestad will not be this year's WSOPE queen, as her went up against Marco Traniello's , which hit.
Just a few moments later, there was further action on the feature table as Antonio Esfandiari ran into some pocket aces. His hit a king on the turn, and shortly after all the chips went in, Esfandiari went out.
On one of the non-feature tables, a woefully short-stacked Chris Bjorin also made a quiet exit.
Tom Dwan: 17,500
Scotty Nguyen: 10,000 (claims "110,000, baby!")
Juha Helppi: 45,000
Jamie "The Chronic" Rosen: currently chip leader on 140,000
Doyle Brunson: 31,000
James Keys: 13,550
Tom Dwan took down a monster pot, which ended with Dwan moving all in on the river of the board and Lauri Keinonen folding. Neither player showed their hand to the table, but Dwan showed his cards to the ESPN show-us-your-cards machine, so there's something to look forward to on the ESPN highlights, Dwan fans...
Direct from our WSOPE friends, the leaders as they stood at the dinner break:
Jamie Rosen: 135,000
Daniel Negreanu: 130,000
Sargon Ruya: 100,000
Michael Lorean: 100,000
David Benefield: 90,000
Roland de Wolfe: 90,000
Johnny Lodden: 75,000
David "Devilfish" Ulliott: 70,000
Yuval Bronshtein: 70,000
David "Devilfish" Ulliott raised under the gun, only for Peter Turmezey to shove from the button for around 12,000 total. "All in, eh?" said Devilfish, rather obviously. After some thought, he called.
Turmezey:
Devilfish:
Board:
In a lucky escape, Devilfish got to take his chips back, while unfortunate Turmezey missed out on a much-needed double-up.
The Face to Face Bar is littered with some of poker's biggest names at the moment. Here's how they're looking in terms of chip count.
Daniel Negreanu 133,000
David Benefield 117,000
Roland de Wolfe 84,000
Yuval Bronshtein 75,000
Nenad Medic 70,000
Bengt Sonert 56,000
Jani Sointula 50,000
Adam Junglen 41,000
Jeff Garza 36,000
Barry Greenstein 47,000