We came to Alex Outhred's table to se him standing from his chair and saying, "Hold." Outhred was all in for 7,125 on a board of 
with the nuts, 
. He was facing a dreaded flush draw, 
. The board paired but did not flush, 
and 
. Outhred's straight did indeed hold up to give Outhred 16,000 in chips.
After an early-position player limped into the pot pre-flop, Jared Hamby also limped. A player in middle position then raised all in for 1,900 total. The first limper folded, but Hamby called with 
. It turned out he was up against 
. Hamby flopped quads, 
, and would turn out to need them when the turn came and river came to give his opponent a full house. By collecting that pot Hamby moved to 7,200 in chips.
Pocket eights saved Chino Rheem's tournament earlier. Now the've ended it. Rheem re-raised from late position to 2,000 after Craig McCorkell opened for 525. McCorkell responded by moving all in for about 8,000 total. Rheem called with 
and found himself racing McCorkell's 
. There was no help for Rheem this time as the board came 
. Rheem's gone.
JJ Liu was all in for about 2,000 before the flop with pocket fives, and she was racing against an opponent holding king-jack.
The first four cards on board were clean, but a jack on the river has sent Liu out the door after re-adjusting her hat and wishing her table luck.
If you spend $3,000 to enter a poker tournament at the World Series of Poker, and your friends come to watch from the rail, you'd hope they'd be supportive. Not so for James Vannenan. Vannenan's friends were intested in heading off to play a round of golf and wanted their poker-playing buddy to join them. They offered the other players at Vannenan's table a bounty of $50 to bust him. When that failed to produce any action over a period of a few hands, they upped the bounty to $100. Vannenan still failed to bust and, disappointed, they wandered off without him.
They say poker's a skill game, but running good surely never heard anybody. Jordan Morgan was dealt 
at the same time one of his opponents, who started the hand with 9,600, was dealt 
. Predictably all of the money was soon in the middle, with morgan's aces holding 
.
Adam Junglen, seated at the table, immediately said, "I'm so lucky," a reference to Morgan's online screen name. He then added, "Skill game, Jordan."
Morgan is up to about 20,000.
Faraz "the Toilet" Jaka's been running hot to start the day, but it was unreasonable to expect that he would hit every draw. He and Jeff Sluzinski got all the chips in the middle on a flop of 
. Sluzinski showed the aces, a[s], while Jaka was playing two diamonds, 
. Jaka's diamond draw failed to materialize, and 
. He's still leading the field (we think) with 45,500. Sluzinski doubled to 8,700 with a rebuy lammer yet to be cashed in.
Late registration closed at the start of Level 3, so hopefully we'll stop spotting new players on one of our next passes out on the floor. Until then, however, please welcome these players to the field:
Chris Ferguson
Andreas Hoivold
Tom Schneider
Josh Arieh
JJ Liu
Max Pescatori
John Phan
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Eric Cajelais opened pre-flop for a standard raise, then called a short-stack's all-in shove. Cajelais' 
held against his opponent's to propel Cajelais to about 14,000 in chips.
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