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The usual late-arriving crowd has now taken their seats including Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, and Erik Seidel. Also slipping in at the last minute were Brandon Adams, J.C. Tran, Mikael Thuritz, and Vanessa Rousso, fresh off her fifth-place finish in the $10,000 Heads-Up Championship.
Just before the break...
Jesse Martin raised to 600 from the small blind, and Martin Kabrhel three-bet him to 1,800 from the big. Martin called.
The flop came out 
, and Martin check-called a bet of 2,625. They both checked through the 
turn, and the 
river drew one last check from Martin. Kabrhel bet 9,250, and Martin made the call to see the cards.
Kabrhel had 
, and his full house was good for the pot. Kabrhel is now close to the chip lead with 73,000, and Martin has slipped back to 39,000.
Level: 3
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
That's two levels in the books, and the players are off for a twenty-minute break.
The table folded around to the blinds where the small blind opened with a raise to 700. Aaron Been made it 1,400 from the big blind, and the small blind popped it right back up to 5,100 total. Without missing a beat, Been five-bet with a pot-sized reraise, and that was enough to finally win him the pot.
He flashed the 
as he dragged in the chips.
Tom Dwan had just 4,600 chips left when the dealer put the river onto a 
board. Those last few chips went into the pot, and his opponent Jesse Martin instantly called with 
for the rivered flush.
Dwan mucked and headed straight out of the ropes, and Martin's knockout pot has moved him up to 53,000.
We picked up a three-handed pot as the dealer put a flop of 
on board. David Benefield and Christian Harder checked, and Kevin Saul put out a bet of 1,250 into a pot of about 2,000. Benefield called, and Harder ducked out of the way.
That brought them heads up to the turn , and the action check-checked to the 
river. Benefield took the betting lead now with a 2,600-chip wager, and Saul called. Benefield instantly slid his cards into the muck, and Saul did the same as the dealer pushed him the pot.
"He has to show," Justin Bonomo astutely noticed. Saul pulled his 
back out of the muck and slapped them face-up on the table, and his two pair earns him a chip increase back to 15,000, half his starting stack. Benefield is down to 27,200.
We just caught the tail end of this pot as the board read 
. We were too late to see the early betting action, but there was about 6,000 in the pot when Annette Obrestad bet 3,300 into it. Humberto Brenes was her opponent in the hand, and he made the call to see a showdown.
Obrestad said, "I know. I got there," as she turned up her 
, and Humberto simply said, "Nice hand," (or something that sounded vaguely like that) as he sent his cards muckward.
Obrestad - 29,500
Brenes - 26,000
We walked up to the turn of a board showing 
and a pot of about 14,000 in the middle of the table.
On that turn, Kevin Saul slowly checked, and Christian Harder considered carefully before checking it back.
The river came the 
, and Saul checked it again. Harder slid out 9,000, and Saul tanked for about three minutes before making a reluctant call. Harder knew his 
was good when he turned it over, and he picks up the pot to move to 47,000.
Saul is down to 12,000 here in the early going.
