Fabrice Soulier is up to 85,000 after another player moved in on the 
flop and Soulier called. The short-stacked player's 
flush draw failed to come in on the 
turn or 
river, and Soulier's 
held up to put him up to around double the average.
In fact it's a good day for the whole Soulier household - across the way, Soulier's girlfriend Claire Renaut is doing rather well too, on 70,000.
The sound of riffling chips and quiet conversation was just briefly broken when somehow Dave Ulliott managed to get a hold of the announcing microphone and sing the first few bars of "Try A Little Tenderness".
Certainly made for a confusing minute or so as everyone was wondering what on earth was going on...
Dan Heimiller has got back above his starting stack after a shortie pushed for 13,000 with 
against Heimiller's own 
. The board came down a harmless 
(although a third player banged the table in anger when the ace dropped) and Heimiller increased his stack to 44,000.
A player in middle position opened with a raise, and Miami John Cernuto reraised to 2,200 two seats over. When it came back to the original raiser, he moved all in for 12,225, and Cernuto quickly called to put him at-risk.
"All in and a call!" the dealer announced. Like a team of drunken toddlers, the camera crew clumsily made their way to the table. In fairness to them, they're trying to lug a couple dozen pounds of equipment through spaces too narrow for Calista Flockhart to squeeze through. In any event, at least one table was knocked over, and at least one glass was broken as they tried to give their cameras a glimpse of the small, really uninteresting race. "This Day 1 stuff is stupid," Jason Mercier said from across the table. Agreed.
In any event, the cards were already laying on their backs by the time the cameras arrived:
Cernuto:
Opponent: 
There was a king on the flop to keep the at-risk player alive, and he survived to double up over 25,000. Cernuto is still up over 40,000, though that's about half of what he had early in the day.
Lets go for some Thai food!
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
We're back! That was a spicy Thai dinner for the PokerNews crew, and things are really hotting up in the tournament area as well now as only 363 players remain. We're playing another three levels before bagging up tonight, but until that happy time, it's shuffle up and deal.
There was an opening raise and a three-bet from the hijack and cutoff seats respectively, and Allen Bari four-bet it from the button. In the blinds, Tobias Reinkemeier five-bet shoved all in for his last ~12,500. Everyone folded to Bari, and he called off the extra few thousand to put Reinkemeier at risk.
Showdown
Bari:
Reinkemeier: 
"No respect, Tobias! No respect," Bari prodded, both men smirking at each other. For Reinkemeier's part, he seemed content to flip for double or nothing.
It would be nothing. The flop was a safe 
, but Bari liked the 
turn. "That's not a good card for you," he said, and he was right. The river 
filled in Bari's wheel straight, earning him the knockout and ridding himself of a dangerous player on his left.
"Good luck in Partouche, Tobias," was Bari's parting comment, and the two men shook hands as Reinkemeier headed out the door.
"Careful," warned Kathy Liebert from across the table. "You're gonna ruin your bad boy image if you keep being so nice."
Bad boy or not, Allen Bari is doing quite well with about 95,000 right now.
Around 25,000 had found its way into the pot by the time we heard the cry of, "All in and call!" over at Jon Aguiar's table. We scuttled over and found the following cards face up on the felt.
Flop: 
Aguiar: 
for a pair of aces
Julien Labussiere: 
for the mother of all draws
After a few moments the TV crew arrived and the rest of the board was dealt.
Turn: 
("Oh, more beautiful!" said someone in a heavy French accent)
River: bringing in Labussiere's flush
Aguiar tossed the requisite 41,000 or so into the middle in the same manner in which a baby might throw his toys out of a pram. Clearly not happy about it all, he dropped to 17,000. Labussiere meanwhile doubled up to 110,000.
We found Max Pescatori and his short-stacked opponent with their cards face up, awaiting the cameras so they could see some community cards.
Eventually the cameras arrived.
"Oh wait, hang on," said Pescatori, and removed his sponsor's logo from his shirt and put it in front of him where it was more prominent.
"They're just going to blur it out," said tablemate Joe Hachem.
"Oh no, they're not," said Pescatori. It sounded kind of like a threat.
Board: 
The shortie doubled to 30,000 and Pescatori was left with 35,000. Whether his company's sticker makes it on to TV remains to be seen.
