Rocky Roland

Another player back to take a second shot today is Roland Israelashvili.

The New York-based player who made a deep run in last summer's WSOP Main Event (finishing 25th) is hoping to match or better his fantastic finishes in this very event the last three years' running.

Last year Israelashvili managed to final table this event, taking sixth place. The year before that, he also made the final table, taking fifth place that time. And in 2010, he won the Main Event here, capturing the first of his two WSOP Circuit gold rings!

Things haven't begun so well this time for Israelashvili, however. Just now a hand arose in which a player in the hijack seat raised to 150 and got three callers including Israelashvili in the small blind. The flop came . It folded to the raiser who bet 350, and only Israelashvili stuck around. Both players then checked the turn card.

The river brought the and a bet of 1,100 from Israelashvili, and after some thought his opponent called. Israelashvili tabled while his opponent showed , and after a rocky first level Israelashvili is already down close to half the starting stack.