With registration open for another hour or so, new players are still trickling in at a pretty brisk pace. A new table has just been opened, and its roster includes Kathy Liebert and Chris Moorman.
We've also found the 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada in the house this afternoon.
Jon "FatalError" Aguiar just walked up to our desk to inquire about Tom Dwan's whereabouts, so we know Aguiar is in the field too. We haven't spotted "durrrr" yet though.
On the way back to the desk, we also found Tommy Vedes and Steve O'Dwyer at separate tables.
The full (and still growing) list of players we're tracking can be found in the "Chip Counts" tab at the top of this page.
Chris Moorman opened with a raise to 150, and he was called in three places -- one player who was in position as well as the small and big blinds.
Four ways, the flop came down . Everyone checked through to the player in position, and he fired out a bet of 400. Moorman was the only caller this time, and it was heads up to the turn. The action check-checked there on fourth street, and the filled out the board on fifth. Moorman fired out 1,050 chips, and his opponent made the call.
Moorman tabled , and his two pair was good enough to take down the pot and move his stack up to 6,700.
Marco Traniello
Eric Froehlich
Liz Lieu
Melanie Weisner
Brandon Cantu
Chris Bell
James Akenhead
And last but not least, the champion has returned to defend his bracelet. JP Kelly has just taken the seat to the left of Andy Black and two to the left of Scott Seiver, trying for a repeat title here in this event.
Annette Obrestad opened the pot to 250 from middle position, and she was called in three places as unknown players in the cutoff, button, and big blind came along with her to the flop.
The dealer spread out , and Obrestad followed up her preflop aggression with a bet of 500. This time the cutoff player was the only caller, and they went heads up to the turn. Both of them checked, and the filled out the board on fifth street. Obrestad took the chance to fire another bet, 850 this time, and her opponent quickly called.
Obrestad tabled , out-kicking her opponent's to move her up to about 8,000.
We caught up with the action on the flop just as the dealer was spreading out a flop of . Heads up, the player in the big blind put out a pot-sized bet of 700. Joe Cada was in position, and he bumped it up to 2,000. The big blind then moved all in over the top, and Cada called with the covering stack to put his opponent at risk.
Showdown
Big Blind:
Cada:
Cada was on the draw, but he wouldn't find much to flush about. The on the turn gave him two more outs to hope for, but the blank that rivered sent the pot to the man with the ace, knocking Cada down to a lonely 600 chips.
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. Everyone checked through to the player in position, and he fired out a bet of 400. Moorman was the only caller this time, and it was heads up to the 
turn. The action check-checked there on fourth street, and the 
filled out the board on fifth. Moorman fired out 1,050 chips, and his opponent made the call.
, and his two pair was good enough to take down the pot and move his stack up to 6,700.
and Smith went all in for 1250 chips and got called.
and Simth now has about 3,500 chips.
turn. Both of them checked, and the 
, out-kicking her opponent's 
to move her up to about 8,000.
. Heads up, the player in the big blind put out a pot-sized bet of 700. Joe Cada was in position, and he bumped it up to 2,000. The big blind then moved all in over the top, and Cada called with the covering stack to put his opponent at risk.
on the turn gave him two more outs to hope for, but the blank 
and that's all for Kitai as he was unable to turn over anything better than top pair.