Preflop, a player on the button raises to 1,600 and Liz Lieu re-raises to 4,000 in the small blind. The button calls. On the flop, Lieu is all in for 6,825 and the button calls again. Lieu has and the button has . Lieu gets her chips in bad, but doubles up thanks to a king on the turn. She's at 22,500.
Preflop, John Pacelli raises to 4,500. Dustin "Neverwin" Woolf re-raises all in and Pacelli calls 12,000 more. Neverwin has him covered and takes some back. Pacelli has and Neverwin has . The board is no help and Neverwin is down to 28,000. Pacelli has 40,000.
Kessler was all in preflop against his opponent holding the best hand in poker . His opponent also had a good starting hand, , which looked a lot better to him when the flop came . The turn card removed some of Kessler's outs and the river card was the cruelest card possible, the . Kessler had hit top set but was beaten by his opponent's flush.
Actor Brad Garrett is playing the role of table comedian. In a hand or not, chip leader or short-stacked, Garrett is always "on." He is constantly poking fun at his tablemates and/or himself and just trying to have a good time. It almost seems lost on him that he's playing for the richest prize in sports. His tablemates, for the most part, seem to be taking it in stride.
During the last break, actor Brad Garrett was spotted in the service hallway, just outside the Amazon Room, mopping the floors and chatting it up with a small group of Rio employees . . . in Spanish!
A player bets 2,500 in the cutoff and Matt "mattster24" Sterling is all in for 8,875 more on the button. The cutoff calls and shows for top pair, but Sterling has for a set. Sterling doubles to 26,000.
Mark Vos walked over to Dan Harmetz's table and playfully knocked over a portion of his chip stack.
In response, Harmetz said, "Mark, I'm gonna come over there and do the same thing to you, but it's gonna take you all day to pick them up" -- referring to the massive stack Vos has acquired.
Ten-gallon hats have long been traditional gear for poker players, and the last Stetson we can see in the Amazon Room belongs to Max Miyamoto, who currently has 50,000 chips.