Alec Torelli has just defeated Brian Roberts to move on to the round of 16.
Meanwhile, on table six, Lyle Berman just finished off David Podgurski to earn his spot in Round 5, scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. later this evening.
As many of you know, Vanessa Selbst stormed onto the live tournament scene last summer, posting a third place finish in the $5,000 version of the WSOP Heads Up Championships. Earlier this week she silenced all critics after besting Australian Jamie Pickering in a wild heads up match, to earn her first career WSOP gold bracelet.
Vanessa has collaborated with friends and fellow pros Jonas Entin, Emil Patel, Jason Rosenkrantz, Brian Roberts and John Snipes (amongst others) to form the online poker coaching site DeucesCracked.com.
Why is this relevant, you ask? All six of the aforementioned pros affiliated with the site entered the $10,000 Heads Up Championships and five of them skated through to the round of 32! The only one who didn't make the cut was John Snipes and he was eliminated by Selbst herself in the opening round of the tournament.
More impressive still is the fact that the round of 32 is just a couple of pages away from being in the books and three members of the DeucesCracked posse (Selbst, Entin and Patel) have already clinched their spots in the sweet sixteen! Suffice it to say 50% ain't bad.
Selbst explained that the site mostly caters to cash game players, though she did admit that her crew plays 'a ton of heads up.' Needless to say, it shows.
Kenny Tran has just completed an impressive come-from-behind against Erick 'E-Dog' Lindgren to advance to the round of 16.
Lindgren had Tran all in for his tournament life on a board drawing to an open-ended straight, which he hit on the turn, leaving Lindgren with just 16,000 in chips.
The hand that did E-Dog in saw him shove preflop holding and get action from Tran, who brought to the showdown.
A flop gave Tran way the best hand, though the that came on the turn offered Lindgren a few outs. Today would not be his day, however, as the popped off on the river, cementing the match for Tran.
Despite the loss, Lindgren's money finish here today puts him further ahead in the WSOP Player of the Year points race.
We've just been told that Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi has opened up a decent-sized chip lead over opponent Matthew Giannetti, with 250,000 in chips to Giannetti's 70,000.
Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi has just finished off heads up opponent Matt Giannetti to fill out the final spot in the round of 16.
All of the money went in preflop: Mizrachi's with A-K and Giannetti's with A-6. Long story short, the Grinder's big slick held up to win the pot, sending Giannetti home, albeit $21,657 richer.
The remaining 16 players have been relocated to the green section of the Amazon Room for Round 5. All players have taken their seats and the cards are in the air.