Tom Dwan: 17,500
Scotty Nguyen: 10,000 (claims "110,000, baby!")
Juha Helppi: 45,000
Jamie "The Chronic" Rosen: currently chip leader on 140,000
Doyle Brunson: 31,000
James Keys: 13,550
Annette Obrestad will not be this year's WSOPE queen, as her went up against Marco Traniello's , which hit.
Just a few moments later, there was further action on the feature table as Antonio Esfandiari ran into some pocket aces. His hit a king on the turn, and shortly after all the chips went in, Esfandiari went out.
On one of the non-feature tables, a woefully short-stacked Chris Bjorin also made a quiet exit.
All in on a flop, it looked like a massive cold deck tragedy for Chris Elliot -- until the turn and river made him a full house, doubling him up to around 60,000 and leaving his opponent with mere shrapnel.
With the board reading Roland de Wolfe called his opponent's all-in, holding to . The poor chap was drawing dead, rendering the on the river meaningless and de Wolfe added another 10,000 or so to his stack, which has now passed the 90,000 mark.
Nicolas Levi lasted exactly until the first hand of the new level before falling prey to a sneaky play from Neil Channing. Channing limped and a short-stacked Levi shoved with pocket threes -- but Channing had been trapping with pocket queens, and it's an early night for the Frenchman.
Let's preface this hand by saying yes, it did happen this way, so don't send me hate mail saying it makes no sense. Everyone watching was completely baffled by the action.
On a flop of , Per Ummer checked, Jeff "ActionJeff" Garza bet 3,000 and Ummer called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river came the . Ummer bet 5,800 and Garza called.
Ummer immediately mucked his cards, while Garza showed and raked in the pot, leaving all bystanders scratching their heads over that river call.
Garza is now on 45,000 while Ummer dips to 13,500.