Stud
Justin Smith: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Opponent: (X)(X) / 
- fold
Sorel Mizzi: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Picking up the action on fourth street, Justin Smith drove the betting on each street with one player calling until he folded on fifth and Sorel Mizzi sticking around until the river. When all the betting was over, Smith tabled the 
for a straight to the jack. Mizzi held the 
for two pair, kings and tens, but lost.
Mizzi dropped to 5,600 while Smith improved to 11,000.
Stud
Juanda: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Opponent: 
/ 
/
A player in the six-seat made the bring in and the player in the one-seat called. Juanda completed with the six-seat folding and the player in the one-seat calling.
Juanda check-called from fourth street all the way to seventh, taking his time towards the end. Once betting was completed, his opponent wasted no time flipping his cards up for an ace-high flush, leading Juanda to muck.
Level: 2
Blinds: /
Ante:
Razz
We arrived at George Lind's table late into this hand, but saw him get off to a rocky start in razz.
Lind: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Opponent: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
When we got there Lind had just called a bet on sixth street. He called one more on the river, but mucked when his opponent tabled his the 
from his downcards to make a jack-low.
Stud
Marcel Luske: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Opponent: (X)(X) / 
/ (X)
Marcel Luske completed on third and his opponent called. Luske then bet fourth and fifth. On fourth, his opponent only called, but he raised on fifth street. Luske made the call.
Luske check-raised on sixth and was called before he led out on seventh and was called.
Luske held the 
in the hole, having made trip deuces on sixth street. His opponent mucked and Luske moved up to 9,800.
Jean-Robert Bellande has been walking up and down the aisles of the tournament area looking for people to book last-longer bets with. He's literally stopping by each and every table and asking. He said, "I'm getting twelve to ten on $1,000." There have been a few takers and he's still booking action from around the room.
Razz
Michael Binger: (X)(X) /
Jason Mercier: (X)(X) / 
- fold
This is an interesting hand where we found Jason Mercier pitted against Michael Binger. Normally in Razz, starting with a king up isn't something you necessarily want to do, but Mercier decided to go to battle with it anyway.
Picking up the action on fourth, Binger fired and Mericer called. Binger also fired fifth and was called again. Mercier asked the dealer if he could please give Binger one big card, but it didn't look like it was going to come. After Binger paired on sixth, he fired another bet and this time Mercier laughed and then folded his hand, not going any further with it.
Mercier dropped to 7,100 and Binger increased to 8,100.
Some of the tables in the room are a lot more stacked than others. On one table we've got Dan Kelly, Joshua Rieman, Justin Smith, Sorel Mizzi and Michael Keiner. A few tables down the row, Jon Turner, Jennifer Harman, Terrence Chan and Justin Bonomo are all seated together.
Aside from that, Thayer Rasmussen, George Danzer, Marco Traniello, Mike Wattel and Soheil Shamseddin are all seated around the same green felt and then on another table Phil Ivey is seated with John Juanda and Steve Wong.
There's certainly no shortage of Team PokerStars in the field today for this event. Just taking a quick glance around the tournament field, numerous pros have been spotted sporting the Team Pro badge on their sleeve and some of whom we haven't seen too much of this WSOP so far.
George Danzer and Michael Keiner are here representing Team Pro Germany while Jason Mercier and Gavin Griffin are here for Team Pro USA. Their northern counterparts are also here, with Daniel Negreanu and Pat Pezzin from Team Pro Canada as well. Even Luca Pagano (Team Pro Italy) and Ivan Demidov (Team Pro Russia) are here. We haven't seen too much of those two all Series, but they're playing this event. Also from Team Pro Russia is Alex Kravchenko.
Also here are Joe Hachem from Team Pro Australia, JP Kelly from Team Pro UK & Ireland and Lex Veldhuis from Team Pro Netherlands.
As for the online guys, we've got George Lind and Sebastien Sabic representing Team Online.
The cards are in the air!
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