and the jacks held up for his opponent, sending Rice to the rail.
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39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
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and the jacks held up for his opponent, sending Rice to the rail.
The first hand Cantu held pocket aces against his opponent's K-J. The aces held up and Cantu eliminated his first victim.
Immediately after, Cantu held A-K against an opponent who was all in with A-J. Again the hand held up for Cantu and his opponent was eliminated.
In just the first 12 minutes since dinner break ended, Cantu has increased his chip stack to 150,000.
As they made their transaction, comments were made about the relative sizes of their stacks.
"Chip envy," quipped the dealer.
Incidentally, Scott Clements, who has about 60,000, sits to the two big stacks' immediate left.
. Mortensen, who was relatively deep stacked, looked to double up when he got a caller. Unfortunately for "The Matador," his
was no good. His opponent, Grant Hillman, rolled over 
for top set leaving Mortensen drawing to the case deuce or running hearts.Neither came and Mortensen hit the rail.
, Hellmuth bet 4,500 and was called by Matt Vengrin. The river brought the 
and an 8,000-chip bet from Hellmuth. Vengrin called again, and then mucked when Hellmuth showed him 
for trip kings.Hellmuth is now just shy of 200,000. Vengrin has slipped to 31,000.
House has
and Dunst has 
. The board ran out 
, giving House a set. The turn was the and then the river the . It did give Dunst his flush, but House filled up to eliminate Dunst.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
, David Singer checks in the small blind and Nicolas Levi bets 4,000 in the hijack. Singer check-raises to 12,000 and Levi calls.The turn is
and Singer bets 19,000. Levi calls.The river is
and both check.Singer shows
and Levi mucks.Levi is down to 124,000 and Singer is up to 166,000.
