Nikolay Evdakov: (XXX) /
Kirk Morrison: /
Third player: (XX) / - folded
Nikolay Evdakov was the initial aggressor, completing on third street while Kirk Morrison and a third player just called. Evdakov bet on fourth street and Morrison called again (the third player choosing to duck out of their way at this point). Evdakov bet again on fifth and this time Morrison raised. Evdakov now backed down a little and just check-called down sixth and seventh streets, before just mucking to Morrison's sixth street straight which had morphed into a flush on seventh.
After that, Evdakov was still just a shade above his starting stack on 4,650. Morrison however was well above it on 6,000.
Perry Friedman brought in and was followed by Gavin Smith and Alan Kessler. On fourth street, Kessler bet, Smith fold and Friedman raised with Kessler making the call. One more bet from Friedman was enough to take the pot on fifth street. Friedman is now sitting on about 5,800 in chips.
Now that the late registrants from Level 1 have been allowed to take their seats, this is turning into an extremely interesting tournament indeed.
Further to our aforementioned Table Of Doom, we have the following Table Of Newer Doom:
Seat 1: Alan Kessler
Seat 2: Marcel Luske
Seat 3: Perry Friedman
Seat 5: Gavin Smith
Seat 6: Thor Hansen
Good luck to the unfortunates who have to share a table with that bunch.
Elsewhere we now have Rob Hollink sharing a table with Ylon Schwartz, Bill Chen sitting right next to David Williams, and scattered across the are room Tom McEvoy, Nikolay Evdakov, Barbara Enright, Pat Pezzin, Andre Akkari, Jan Sjavik and Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri.
Marco Traniello raised on third street and got a call from two opponents. On fourth street, Opponent 2 bet, Traniello raised, and Opponent 1 folded.
Traniello led the action on fifth and sixth street, making bets that were called each time. Both players checked 7th street, and Traniello showed rolled up queens for the highest pair.
Traniello had lost a lot of chips before the hand and is now back up to 2,700.
We arrived just in time to see Mel Judah and Jean Gaspard souring to each other - they were involved in some sort of dispute concerning whether the third player in the hand, who was keeping very quiet, was owed any change from the pot or had in fact already taken it. Gaspard wanted to make a side bet on it and demanded the pot be counted. Judah declined the bet, and looked very angry. Either way the possibly offending player remained silent and folded on the next street anyway.
Gaspard bet out on fifth, sixth and seventh streets and Judah called all the way; Gaspard revealed kings full of jacks and Judah mucked.
Gaspard: ()
Judah: (mucked)
Third, terribly quiet player: an unpromising before he folded on fourth
"Doesn't like I tell the truth," continued Gaspard.
"Oh, please be quiet," snapped the clearly rattled Judah.
"I don't drink, I don't smoke, I pay attention to what's going on." Gaspard went on.
Another player butted in cheerfully, rather breaking the tension, "I don't drink or smoke, but I do a lot of drugs."
Amnon Filippi called bets from his opponent down every street until seventh, when his opponent checked. Filippi bet and his opponent called, and Filippi swiftly mucked to the other player's full house.
The last time we saw Corey Zeidman and Jennifer Harman at the same table was at the 2005 Main Event when he famously slow-rolled Harman, hesitating in calling her river bet after he had made a straight flush, beating Harman's queens-full.
Today they're sitting at the same table again. Harman is in seat 8, while Zeidman is in Seat 1. At least the dealer is between them.
We have located the table with the highest average doom level in the tournament.
Seat 2: WSOPE bracelet winner Erik Cajelais
Seat 4: occasionally remiss Lakers owner Jerry Buss
Seat 6: 2009 EPT San Remo finalist Dragan Galic
Seat 8: exuberant Costa Rican Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes
Of these four, Brenes seems to have had the best start so far.
"Look at this!" Galic said, pointing to the sizable stack of red 5-denomination chips in front of Brenes, topped with a little plastic shark. "This is a shark tower!"
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- folded
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(X-X) / 
FOLDED
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