Jason Mercier moved all in for about 34,000 from the hijack and found a call from Micah Smith from the cutoff.
Mercier:
Smith:
The flop left Mercier in dire straits. He needed to catch something helpful on the turn to have a chance at catching a runner-runner, but the turn was not it. The river was irrelevant and Mercier has been eliminated.
Jorddi Martinez raised to 11,500 and David Diaz, who has been participating in the Onnit Labs' Last Sticker Standing promotion all Main Event, moved all-in a few seats to his right. Everyone else folded and Martinez made the call.
Diaz turned over but Martinez had him crushed with . The board ran out and Diaz's Main Event came to an end.
There are definitely some tough tables out in the mix as there in every tournament, but Table 413 in the Purple Section of the Amazon Room is a very tough one with players that not everyone may recognize by face.
Seat 1 is Andrew Moreno, a regular on the Las Vegas cash game scene and cashing in his first World Series of Poker Main Event. Prior to this cash, Moreno's best live tournament result was an in-the-money finish in the WSOP Circuit Harrah's Rincon Main Event in 2011.
Seat 2 is Patrick Renkers, a Dutch tournament players with a couple impressive results including a deep run at the European Poker Tour Prague Main Event in 2011.
Seat 3 is Ryan Fair, who made a very deep run in the 2009 WSOP Main Event where he finished in 31st place for $253,941. Fair is commonly known by his online moniker "toetagU" and most famously won the 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker Main Event High for over $1.162 million.
Seat 4 is Taylor Paur, who is another player at the table with an impressive tournament resumé that includes a fifth-place finish in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed Championship for nearly $200,000. He's also earned over $3.5 million in online tournament winnings.
Seat 7 belongs to Christina Lindley and she'll be no pushover as well. Lindley has four WSOP cashes, a deep run at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker in 2011 and two cashes from the North American Poker Tour.
Seat 8 is Benjamin Alcober, also known as "4XTRADER" in the online world where he's amassed nearly $1.1 million in tournament winnings. On the live poker side of things, Alcober has six WSOP cashes and over $88,000 in earnings.
On a recent hand, Paur and Alcober got into it that saw Paur double up to close to 400,000 in chips.
On the flop, Paur bet 12,000 and Alcober fired in a raise to 28,000. Paur swung back with a reraise to 49,500 and Alcober went into the tank. Paur had 129,000 behind after his three-bet on the flop. Alcober put in another raise and made it 110,000 to go. Paur moved all in for 178.5 and Alcober called.
Paur showed the and Alcober the . The turn was the to pair the board and the river was the to pair it again. Paur's kings held up and he doubled through.
It doesn't look like this table will be breaking anytime soon, which leads to the belief that there will be plenty more action to be had at this table. Will one of these players become part of the 2012 final table? Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out!
Brian Hamilton was just all in and at risk with against Will "The Monkey" Souther's .
The flop came an intriguing , giving Hamilton a set but providing Souther with a flush draw. The turn was safe for Hamilton, but the fell on the river to complete Souther's flush and send Hamilton out.
We missed the hand but we were there for the aftermath. All the money went in on the river on a board. David Tuchman held for the Broadway straight. But Nghi Van Tran held for the nut flush.
The stacks were counted and Van Tran had Tuchman just barely covered. Tuchman's in-money-finish is his second biggest cash on his resume, he finished in 4th place in a L.A. Poker Classic event in 2007.
A four table radius in the Amazon room was recently caught jumping up from their tables in fits of coughing. Amid the tizzy of players scrambling throughout the Orange section, we found former WSOP Main Event final tablist Lee Childs who informed us that the incident happened at his table.
"A guy at my table raked in a pot and then all of a sudden jumped up from the table and started coughing like crazy. Then I felt a tickle in my throat and started coughing. Turns out a guy had what he thought was a pen and it sprayed pepper spray in the air," said Childs.
Speaking with WSOP Media Director Nolan Dalla afterwards, we confirmed the story. A player at the table found what he thought was a pen in the parking lot and was playing with it at the table. He clicked it, assuming he would engage the pen, but instead sent pepper spray flying into the air. Play has since resumed in that part of the Orange section but the coughing is still being heard echoing throughout the Amazon room.
Childs would take to Twitter after during the break to inform his followers of the incident:
leechilds Lee ChildsOk. Dude has a pepper spray pen. Grabbed it instead of real pen from bag. Accidentally went off. main victim likely on tv. He's fine now.July 13 2012
We didn't catch the betting action, but we do know that NHL goalie Roberto Luongo was all in preflop with and in bad shape against the of Bryan Vanrijsbergen.
The flop provided Luongo no help, while the river left him in need of a four on the river to keep his Main Event dreams alive. The dealer burned one last time and put out the . It was close, but not close enough. Luongo collected his things and made his way to the payout desk, adding a World Series of Poker Main Event cash to his résumé.
We caught up with the action on a board reading , where Shaun Deeb was in a heads-up pot against David Funkhouser.
Funkhouser checked from under the gun and Deeb fired 25,500 into the middle. Funkhouser made the call.
The completed the board and both players checked. Funkhouser tabled for jacks and fours. Deeb nodded his head and mucked - conceding the pot to Funkhouser.
Deeb slipped, but is still in good shape with 570,000, however.
flop left Mercier in dire straits. He needed to catch something helpful on the turn to have a chance at catching a runner-runner, but the 
turn was not it. The river was irrelevant and Mercier has been eliminated.
but Martinez had him crushed with 
. The board ran out 
and Diaz's Main Event came to an end.
flop, Paur bet 12,000 and Alcober fired in a raise to 28,000. Paur swung back with a reraise to 49,500 and Alcober went into the tank. Paur had 129,000 behind after his three-bet on the flop. Alcober put in another raise and made it 110,000 to go. Paur moved all in for 178.5 and Alcober called.
and Alcober the 
. The turn was the 
to pair the board and the river was the 
against Will "The Monkey" Souther's 
, giving Hamilton a set but providing Souther with a flush draw. The 
turn was safe for Hamilton, but the 
fell on the river to complete Souther's flush and send Hamilton out.
board. David Tuchman held 
for the Broadway straight. But Nghi Van Tran held 
flop provided Luongo no help, while the 
completed the board and both players checked. Funkhouser tabled 
