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A short-stacked player was all-in for his last chips from under the gun with Liz Lieu making the call from the small blind.
Lieu: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and Lieu's queens hold up to send one to the exit as she jumps up to 72,000 chips.
After an early-position raise, Nick Binger reraised from the cutoff. His opponent four-bet, and Binger five-bet shoved. He got a call, and his 
would need to hold against 
to keep him alive in the Main Event. The board fell 
, and Binger rode his cowboys to a double up. As he stacked his 33,200, Binger joked, "Holy s^*t, above starting stack? This is weird."
Players are back in their seats for the last bit of play tonight. We'll play half of Level 5 -- a total of one hour of play -- before the chips bags are brought out.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
At the World Series of Poker Main Event, four levels equal eight hours of play. Today the 7th and 8th hours produced the elimination of two former champions, and the room's response to the announcement of each couldn't have been more different.
When it was announced that Phil Hellmuth had busted, much of the Amazon Room and the Pavilion Room burst into applause. The level of chatter increased noticeably in volume for ten to twenty seconds. However, when Jerry Yang busted, almost nobody noticed. There was only the faintest of applause.
The movers and shakers the last two hours were Isaac Krantz, Robert Mizrachi, Hoyt Corkins and Lauren Kling. Each is now in the general vicinity of 100,000 chips, more than double the field average of about 40,000. Kling in particular has been terrorizing a select few of her opponents.
Remember, though, that because of the deep starting stacks and incredibly slow structure, just keeping pace with the average is generally a good result for Day 1. There is a giant pile of players in the chip range between 45,000 and 90,000 chips, all of whom need only one more solid hour of play to be satisfied with their days.
Play will resume in twenty minutes.
When we arrived at the table the flop was 
, and the player in the hijack seat moved all in. In the small blind, Lauren Kling quickly called.
Showdown
Opponent: 
Kling: 
The turn card was a and the river brought a to the felt, Kling is now up to 155,000 chips and is our new chip leader.
A gentleman in the far corner of the Red section just shot out of his chair and yelled, "Mama is in the house! ... Mama is in the house!" a few times. He appeared to be sweating his own all in, repeating his tag line every time a new, safe card appeared. There was one more, "Mama is in the HOUSE!!!" as the river card kept him alive and double him up to, well... some amount of chips.
Also in the Red section, there is a rather strong, um, odor coming from somewhere in the deep inner reaches of the section. It smells rather like someone is having a party over there. Or else someone needs to do their shirt laundry. Either way, it's definitely better than some of the odors that the players will be emanating over the next two weeks.
Tom Dwan is wearing an interesting accessory today. He's been branded, and we're not talking about a poker site patch. Dwan is wearing a button with a picture of Peter Jetten hugging a koala. We don't know the details of the prop bet. All we know is Dwan lost, so has to wear the button as long as he remains alive in the Main Event. Dwan tweeted at Jetten, "Everytime I win a pot it tilts me that I may need to wear a button imprinted w/ ur koala loving face longer. And if I lose I'm tilted b/c its the main event and I wanna win it."
With Jerry Yang's recent elimination, we are left with four Main Event champions in our Day 1c field. We haven't heard much from Joe Cada today, buried away in the confines of the main ESPN featured table; he's holding pretty steady, though. Johnny Chan, well he's doing quite a bit more than holding steady here in the Red section. The Orient Express is full steam ahead with a near-chip-leading count of 141,000, and there's no doubt who the conductor is at Table 352. Scotty Nguyen and Carlos Mortensen are our other two face-on-the-wall-in-the-Amazon -Room guys, and they're both below starting stack.
After a player raised to 1,000 under the gun, Gabe Kaplan three-bet to 4,000 in the cutoff. The original raiser moved all in, making it another 3,200 for Kaplan to call. He did, and it was time for showdown.
Kaplan: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
, giving Kaplan the knockout. He's back up to 28,000 now after making a very late arrival this evening.
Dave Ulliott opened pre-flop from early position for 800 and was called by a middle-position player. Another 1,000 chips was bet by "Devilfish" and called by his opponent on a queen-high flop, 
. When the turn came , Ulliott made a curiously small bet of 1,800. His opponent raised that bet to 5,450 and Ulliott made the call.
On the river Ulliott grabbed a handful of chips and dumped them into the pot. The amount of the bet turned out be 24,000, about double the 12,000 that his opponent had left behind. That player ultimately called all in with top two pair, . Ulliott had that hand beat with 
, a queen-high straight.
The player under the gun opened the pot with a 800-chip raise and the player next to speak called. The action folded to Simon Watt in the cutoff seat and he called. The button and the small blind released and the big blind joined the party.
The flop came out 
. The big blind checked and so did the player under the gun, next to speak fired a 2,400-chip bet and Watt called. The big blind check-raised to 7,500 and only Watt called.
The turn card was a and both players checked. The river brought a to the table and the player in the big blind fired a 11,300-chip bet.
Watt tanked and popped it to 40,000. The big blind tanked and eventually folded, and Watt is now up to 70,000 chips.
