Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby and former NFL running back Eric Stocz were heads up with the board reading 
. Hamby led for 700 and Stocz made the call from the cutoff.
The turn brought the 
and Hamby again led - this time for 1,300. Stocz again called.
Hamby halted after the 
rivered, checking to Stocz who fired 6,000. Hamby folded and Stocz showed 
for complete air.
The former Detroit Lion is up to 18,500 chips while Hamby slipped to 45,000.
Around 8,600 in chips had found their way into the middle by the turn of the 
board. Florian Langmann's opponent checked, and Langmann himself checked behind.
They saw an river and this time Langmann's opponent bet out 2,200. Langmann called and tabled 
. It was just a gnat's whisker ahead of his opponent's 
, but it was enough - the jack kicker played, and Langmann increased his already chunky stack to 96,000.
Over on Table 267 in the Blue section, a dealer yelled out, "Floor Table 267!" A moment then passed and the dealer muttered, "Holy sh*t!" under his breath about the situation that had just occurred. When the floor got there, here's what was explained.
The player in Seat 7 just got to the table after being transferred from another table. He took his chips out of the bag used to transfer them in and began counting them out in front of him. The player to his left in Seat 8 had just won the last pot and was counting out his chips in front of him, cutting to the right as he counted. When the player in Seat 8 restacked his chips, he picked up the chips of the other player that were cut out by accident and stacked them up. The player in Seat 7 claimed that he had about 30,000 when he changed tables, but with all the chips mixed up in the new stack, there wasn't a clear-cut way to tell whose chips were whose.
Eventually, the player in Seat 8 just took a bunch of chips out of his stack and handed them over to Seat 7. Seat 7 counted his stack with the added chips and had 29,000 and change. He seemed content with that and so did the other player. "if it's good with you, it's good with me," said the tournament staff and the dealer began shuffling for the next hand.
Peter Neff raised to 1,600 from the button, and Mark Teltscher reraised to about 3,600 from the small blind. In the big, Eugene Todd wasn't messing around either. He moved all in for an additional 12,775 on top, Neff folded, and Teltscher called to put him at risk.
Showdown
Teltscher: 
Todd: 
Todd was safe on the flop, scared on the turn, and eliminated on the river of a board that came down 
. Teltscher's straight does the deed, sending Todd out and adding those chips to his own stack of 52,500.
Snickers Bar in the Poker Kitchen; $2, Taxi to the Rio: $11; Being eliminated from the Main Event in the last level of the day with aces versus ace-king: priceless.
It's not often I wince at the felt and feel the pain of a victim of variance, but with just 20 minutes remaining, one pour soul found himself heading towards the rail with a tear in his eye and a limp in his step.
All in with , he had his opponent by the short and curlies with 
, but after a cruel 
board it was the bullets that would halt in mid air. The World Series: where dreams are shattered and hopes are crushed.
A player in middle position limped, Ronnie Bardah limped from the cutoff seat, the small blind completed and Jason Riesenberg checked in the big blind. The four of them took a flop of 
and action checked around to see the 
fall on the turn.
The small blind checked and Riesenberg took the initiative with a bet of 1,100. The next player folded before Bardah made the call. The small blind mucked as well.
The river completed the board with the and also completed some more draws. Riesenberg didn't seem scared and fired 2,200. Bardah fired back with a raise to 5,300.
"Really?!?!" commented Riesenberg immediately after Bardah raised him. He then went into the tank for a minute or two. Finally, Riesenberg would let it go after checking his hole cards twice more and the pot was pushed to Bardah.
Bardah increased to 54,000 while Riesenberg slipped back to about 20,000.
Eric Wasserson raised to 1,100 from middle position and was called play a player in the small blind. The flop fell and the player in the small blind checked. Wasserson continued for 1,000 and his opponent check-raised to 3,000. Wasserson folded.
"I'll pay you $100 if you show a bluff," Wasserson poked.
"$100?" his opponent returned.
Wasserson nodded, and his opponent showed a 
.
"A king and...?" Wasserson prodded further.
The second card was a 
, proving that it wasn't a bluff. The player may have lost out on $100, but he is happy to have Wasserson's chips.
A player in early position raised to 2,000, and Nicholas Mitchell called from the button. He and the raiser took a heads-up flop of 
, and Mitchell faced a continuation bet of 5,000. He decided to raise to 20,000, enough to cover his opponent. The call came quickly, and the cards were turned up:
Mitchell:
Opponent: 
The turn and sealed the knockout for Mitchell, boosting his stack to right at 50,000 now.
Dan Harrington raised to 1,200 and was called by Erica Schoenberg out of the big blind. The two of them took a flop of and checked to see the fall on the turn.
Schoenberg fired 2,200 and Harrington made the call before the final community card was dealt out. The 
fell on the river and Schoenberg checked. Harrington bet 3,000 and his female counterpart mucked.
Harrington moved to 45,000 while Schoenberg decreased to 41,150.
There was about 8,000 in the pot when we walked up to a flop of 
. Tristan Wade checked, then raised Phil Laak's bet from 10,000 to 25,000 straight. Laak promptly moved all in over the top, and Wade called off the rest of his own chips, all in for about 60,000 total.
It was one of those flops; Laak tabled 
, smashed by Wade's 
. The turn and river were not running quad cards for Laak, and he's sent a big double up over to Wade. The two men have essentially traded stacks now, Laak sitting with 58,000 to Wade's 120,000.
