We walked over to 2001 WSOP Main Event Champion Carlos Mortensen's table to find a board of strewn in front of two players. One of those players was Mortensen, who had a bet of 3,900 laid out in front of him.
His opponent sat pondering a call for over a minute before finally moving in a good majority of his stack. When the call was made, Mortensen immediately flung his cards away to the muck. His opponent tabled for a flopped pair of sixes and was able to scoop up a pot that brought Mortensen's stack down under the 5,000 mark.
After witnessing a flop we found Mike Matusow check-raising an opponent in middle position to 2,000. Matusow's opponent then moved all in and Matusow called fairly quickly.
Matusow:
Opponent:
The Mouth's aces were ahead for now, but there was still a turn and a river to come. With a turn and a river Mike insured the win and raked in the pot.
According to Team PokerStars Online Pro Randy Lew's Twitter, he was recently able to double up through David Sands.
nanonoko Randy LewDoubled up sbvbb to 10500 chips vs doc sands. I had AQo and he had K8o...board ran out J87 Q 4..blinds 100/200/25a #wsop9June 03 2012
Lew has been sitting on a short stack all day, so this double up was most certainly a welcome sight. Lew, also known as "nanonoko" to the online poker world, is no stranger to dragging in chips. Lew made a name for himself by playing online and frequently multi-tables absurd amounts of tables at once. While Lew only has eight live cashes to his name, three of those came at last year's WSOP.
More recently, Lew struck gold when he took down the 2011 AAPT Macau Main Event for a total cash prize of $484,617. Lew entered the final table of that event as short stack and was able to best the field and climb to the top.
Now that Lew has some chips to work with, we are sure we will see him being more active throughout the day.
There may be a bit of a controversy brewing in this very event as there have been murmurs that multiple people have been able to re-enter the event twice on the same day, when the rule clearly states that only players who busted the first Day 1 flight would be able to re-enter once and only on the second Day 1 flight. Here is how some of the story has played out on Twitter.
JasonMercier Jason MercierPretty sure will the thrill just got busted for playing the 1500 reentry for the 2nd time TODAY .. He was a few tables down from moorman....June 03 2012
JasonMercier Jason MercierGuess the thrill wasn't the only one... 11 people apparently played twice today... Wonder how many played twice yesterday and no one noticedJune 03 2012
Moorman1 Chris MoormanMade the antes for the first time this trip, only got 5500 tho. I will also confirm that I did out @WILLFAILLA for playing twice todayJune 03 2012
Moorman1 Chris MoormanI hope it was an honest mistake from him and that there is a big investigation into how this was allowed to happen with another 10 playersJune 03 2012
cslaubaugh Cody SlaubaughWow will the thrill w/a triple stack. Asks jeff Eiffel how long u can re-enter for. Turns out he's on his 2nd bullet of the day. Gonna getDQJune 03 2012
JonathanLittle Jonathan Little.@cslaubaugh that is crazy. Clearly the computer shouldn’t let people reenter if it isn’t allowed.June 03 2012
da_kyky Kyle CartwrightThese players who entered twice today all knew it was against wsop rules and should be punished for it. @WSOPJune 03 2012
We missed the details of the hand, but can officially confirm that Dennis Phillips, 3rd place finisher in the 2008 WSOP Main Event has been eliminated.
We caught up to the action to find Men Nguyen opening from under the gun for 600. A player in middle position called along with the cut off. With a flop unleashed by the dealer, Nguen again bet out, this time for 1,100. The player in middle position took his time before placing a call in the middle, while the cut-off player folded.
A turn seemingly slowed Nguyen down as we found him checking. The player in middle position was having none of that and we saw him bet 1,600. Action then moved back to Nguyen who took his time before placing in a raise. It was now 4,200 after Nguyen check raised his opponent. The middle position player again made the call and we were off to the river.
The then made its appearance on the river which lead to a check from the erratic Nguyen and a 5,500 bet from his opponent. After a few moments of quite contemplation Nguyen made the call and was in for a shock. Nguyen's opponent flipped over for the nut flush, there was nothing Nguyen could do but muck his cards, and he did just that.
Dinner is over! A total of 622 players have returned from their break and are ready for more action. Just a reminder that tonight will finish at the same time last night did, with just over nine levels being played before the chips are bagged and tagged. We also expect the prize pool to be posted very soon.
strewn in front of two players. One of those players was Mortensen, who had a bet of 3,900 laid out in front of him.
for a flopped pair of sixes and was able to scoop up a pot that brought Mortensen's stack down under the 5,000 mark.
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flop we found Mike Matusow check-raising an opponent in middle position to 2,000. Matusow's opponent then moved all in and Matusow called fairly quickly.
turn and a 
river Mike insured the win and raked in the pot.
flop unleashed by the dealer, Nguen again bet out, this time for 1,100. The player in middle position took his time before placing a call in the middle, while the cut-off player folded.
turn seemingly slowed Nguyen down as we found him checking. The player in middle position was having none of that and we saw him bet 1,600. Action then moved back to Nguyen who took his time before placing in a raise. It was now 4,200 after Nguyen check raised his opponent. The middle position player again made the call and we were off to the river.
then made its appearance on the river which lead to a check from the erratic Nguyen and a 5,500 bet from his opponent. After a few moments of quite contemplation Nguyen made the call and was in for a shock. Nguyen's opponent flipped over 
for the nut flush, there was nothing Nguyen could do but muck his cards, and he did just that.