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The flop fell 
, and Vitaly Lunkin's opponent checked to him. Lunkin tried to take the raised pot down with a 425 bet, but the other player called. Lunkin checked back the 
turn. His opponent bet 675 when the river brought the 
, and that was enough to get rid of Lunkin. Vitaly is still up slightly after two hours with 34,000.
The first level is in the books for the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Much of the starting field has made it through to the first break, but there were a few less fortunate souls including Nick Schulman and Greg Raymer.
Schulman had a rough day to start and eventually had his kings cracked to be eliminated from the event. Raymer was crippled when his top pair and flush draw ran into a set. Raymer failed to hit and was crushed early on. He did find a triple up, but only to a few thousand before his pocket eights ran into pocket aces and he was eliminated, making him the first previous Main Event champion to hit the rail in 2010.
On the other side of the spectrum were Lacey Jones, Steve Jelinek and Isaac Haxton who all won some nice pots to move near the 50,000-chip mark.
The players are now on a 20-minute break and we'll be back for Level 2 then.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
PokerStars Team Germany Pro Michael Keiner is back down to 19,000 after losing a pot following the break.
The board read 
as Keiner called 5,500 but when the price was upped to 10,000 on the 
river, Keiner had to give it up.
Just back from the break, Andrew Robl was sitting with the button when the player in the cutoff -- a player who has Lou Krieger's The Rules of Poker: Essentials for Every Game sitting on the table rail (either a cheat sheet or the best level we've seen so far today) -- raised to 700. Robl and the big blind both called. All three players checked a jack-high flop, 
.
When the turn fell 
, action checked to Robl. He bet 1,300, inducing a quick fold from the big blind. The cutoff player glanced at Robl, looked back at her cards, glanced at Robl a second time, and then announced, "Fold" and pitched her cards to the dealer.
Facing a raise under the gun to 600 and a call, Ted Forrest made it 1,600 to go from the big blind.
The original raiser then four-bet to 6,000 to force a fold from the player caught in the middle as Forrest made it 11,000 total. His opponent made the call to see a 
flop fall.
Forrest deliberated for a moment before making it 5,000 only to have his opponent move all in for an additional 8,700 more. Forrest again returned to the tank before eventually finding a call.
Forrest: 
Opponent: 
With Forrest's opponent finding his two-outer on the flop, Forrest would need to return the favor if he was to knock out his opponent.
Unfortunately for Forrest, the 
on the turn, and on the river would change little to see the high-stakes prop better and five-time bracelet winner crippled to just 3,900 in chips.
We're not exactly sure how all the money went in, but we found Ted Forrest's 
face up against an opponent's 
.
The board was spread 
with Forrest making quads to double through to 8,000.
An early position player opened for 700, the button called and Johannes Strassman called from the big blind. All three players checked the 
flop.
The turn was the . Strassman checked to the EP player, who bet 1,000. It was enough to chase away both the button and Strassman, who is down to 18,500.
Catching the action on a flop of 
, the pot had already swelled to over 10,000, with a bet or raise of 8,200 in front of Dutchman Thierry van den Berg.
His opponent thought for several minutes before sliding his entire stack across the line. Van den Berg couldn't shout out "call!" any faster as he revealed 
for top set and the nuts. We thought his opponent may have had kings or perhaps queens, but instead he opened one of each - for an adventurous move that was going to need a lot of help.
The player actually picked up some outs with the turn but the river bricked the . Van den Berg couldn't believe his good fortune as he stacked up 77,300 chips and sent his opponent to an early exit.
