Gualter Santos and Roberto Truijers saw a flop, which Truijers checked. Santos bet 40,000, and Truijers called it. Onwards to the turn.
Again, Truijers checked, and this time Santos pushed his last 260,000 into the middle. Truijers gave the merest impression of thinking about it before passing.
Chris Sparks' buddies had planned to fly home this morning but changed their flight to rail their man. That probably wasn't the best decision as he's our first player out today.
He pushed once and managed to pick up the blinds and antes but when he pushed the next hand he was cold called by David Lerman on the button with . Off to the races as Sparks had .
"Oh, that's the worst hand for me to race against I never win a race against sevens" was the cry from Lerman just before the board came down to emphatically bust that notion.
To top his "No Velociraptors" logo t-shirt yesterday, Alan Jaffray is today sporting a large ladies' hat with a very fetching red flower in it, of the sort of which J.J. Liu would be proud. What a man.
We're back in the Amazon room but we've moved over towards the TV arena. That signals to players we're approaching a WSOP final table. It was a late finish last night so the player's nerves would probably set in if they were awake enough. Cocktails have been called though so coffees all round is the order of the day and we'll be up to speed in no time. Play to begin very soon.