Would You Like a Slice of Elpayaa?
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We arrived at Joe Elpayaa's table just in time to see him table 
against an all-in player's pocket tens. Duly a king dropped on the flop, and Elpayaa is now one of our larger stacks on around 40,000.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #3: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$3,910,500
Entries
4,345
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Dowd Gets No Love
Well, the run for Cory Dowd has ended. He was up as high as 15,000 before running queens into kings for a few thousand chips to knock him below the 10,000-chip mark. Just recently, Dowd ran queens into a bigger pair once more, this time it was aces. After being crippled, Dowd was able to find the ladies again on the short stack, but yet again ran into pocket kings and that ended his day.
Let's Talk About the Cabbage, the Cheddar, the Berries, the Green...
For the player who emerges with all of the chips in this one -- all 13-plus million of them -- he or she will be earning a cool $625,872 and a shiny new bracelet for doing so. The total prizepool is $3,910,500. Here are the payouts for the final table:
1st -- $625,872
2nd -- $385,106
3rd -- $279,327
4th -- $206,904
5th -- $154,425
6th -- $116,141
7th -- $88,025
8th -- $67,221
9th -- $51,735
Click the "Payouts" tab -- or right here -- to find out how all them clams will be divided up between the top 441 finishers.
First Roommates, Now Tablemates
Walking over to Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger's table, we noticed that he has a new tablemate in Dan "KingDan" Smith. This isn't out of the ordinary that two young guns are seated at the same table, but Lichtenberger and Smith are roommates out here in Las Vegas, which makes it interesting. We'll see if anything develops between these two.
Big Stack Watch
A good few folks in here have now equalled or broken the 40,000 mark, and these lucky people can now count themselves as big stacks. Among their number are the following:
Christian Klauser - 40,000
Julie Dang - 40,000
Shane Campbell - 42,000
Nick Choebeck - 45,000
Chan Doubles Through Morgan
Action folded around to Terrence Chan in the small blind and he raised Jordan Morgan's big blind to 1,200. Morgan made the call. The flop came down 
and Chan fired 1,500. Morgan made the call.
The turn card was the 
and Chan checked. Morgan fired 2,200, which sent Chan into the tank. After a minute or so, Chan announced that he was all in for 7,925. Another minute went by with Morgan in the tank before he made the call.
Chan tabled the 
and Morgan tried to push his hand into the muck. The dealer stopped him and pushed the cards back in front of Morgan, who was then told to turn his cards over. He held the 
and was drawing dead. The river completed the board with the 
and finished off the double for Chan, who moved up over 21,000 chips. Morgan dropped back down to 14,250.
Nought to 9,500 in Just a Few Seconds for *TT*
The sight of Jon Aguiar smiling and shaking his head in a "wow that was sick but I wasn't involved so I enjoyed it" sort of way drew our attention to the fact that Steven "*TT*" McLoughlin had just doubled up to 9,500 with pocket kings against an opponent's pocket aces. A king dropped on the flop.
"Nice hand," his opponent told him as he raked in the pot, but she really didn't look like she meant it.
Blue Somerville
Jason Somerville limped from early position, and Christian Klauser raised to 2,700 from middle position. It folded back around to Somerville who popped it up to 6,000. An undeterred Klauser responded by pushing all in for roughly 20,000 total, and Somerville quickly made the call.
Somerville 
Klauser 
The 
flop looked nice to Somerville. The 
turn he could've done without. And the 
river was just plain unacceptable.
The backdoor club flush gave Klauser the pot and a nice, big stack of chips. Meanwhile, Somerville tumbles down to a below average 9,000.
By the Numbers
We lost a total of 115 players during that last hour, which means 440 remain from the 1,744 who began Day 1b. After starting the day filling much of the huge Pavilion, the tournament is now being played out here in the far right corner of the ballroom on fewer than 50 tables.
Three more one-hour levels to go. A reminder: the top 441 finishers make the money in Event No. 3. 276 players made it through yesterday, so tourney officials don't want to see today's field edge too close to the 165-player mark before we end Level 10 today.
Level: 8
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50