Rich Ryan, beloved blogger for PokerNews, raised to 1,700 from middle position. The player on the button then reraised to 3,500, prompting both blinds to fold.
Action was back on Ryan pondered the call. One thing is for sure, Ryan has seen enough hands this WSOP to know when to play and when to fold. He decided this was a time to fold. Ryan is sitting with 21,000.
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Following an under the gun raise, Jerrod Ankenman moved all in for 8,300 from the big blind.
His opponent made the call tabling 
to be in a race against Ankenman's 
.
Fortunately for Ankenman the board ran out 
to see him double through to 17,700 in chips.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The remaining players are heading on their last 20-minute break for the evening.
There was about 17,000 in the pot with a board reading 
when David "The Dragon" Pham bet 4,900. His sole opponent in Seat 4 went into the tank. Pham gave away little to know information as he sat motionless.
Seat 4 eventually made the call, a bit reluctantly, and turned over 
. It was no good though, Pham held 
for a bigger two pair. Pham is now up to 46,000.
Christophe De Meulder opened with a bet only to have two players shove on him. De Meulder made the call for his tournament life and we were off to a showdown.
De Meulder: 
Opponent: 
Opponent:
The board ran out 
to see De Meulder eliminate the player holding ace-king as he tripled through to over 32,000 in chips.
With quite a lull in the action, we thought we provide you the top few in the chip counts.
JP Kelly - 70,000
Manny Minaya - 24,400
Roland De Wolfe - 45,000
Shane Schleger - 42,000
Ari Engel - 40,000
With the field finally reducing, we have just spotted two Team PokerStars Pros.
Christophe and Matthias De Meulder are both part of the Belgium PokerStars team and are also twin brothers.
Both players are currently sitting with an about average chip stack, will be looking to survive the day along with fellow Team PokerStars members George Lind, JP Kelly and Darus Suharto.
JP Kelly, who had a large stack, was all in preflop with against the 
of another big stack. The pot was somewhere in the vicinity 70,000.
The board ran out 
and Kelly doubled and now has a monster stack, possibly the biggest in the room.
Chino Rheem, Eric Baldwin, David Sands, Maridu Mayrinck, Nam Le and Shannon Shorr are among the notables who've been eliminated in the past few levels.
