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One-time chip leader and currently fifth today, Matt Affleck is currently seated at the main feature table.
In back-to-back big blind hands, Affleck has been fortunate enough to receive two walks!
I guess his 3,125,000-chip stack is more intimidating than many would believe!
Damien Luis raised it up to 40,000 from late position before William Thorson made it 100,000 to play from the small blind. Luis made the call and they took a flop of 
.
Thorson led out for 150,000 and Luis made the call to see the 
hit the turn. Thorson decided it was a good card to bet another 400,000 but Luis came along once again. The river 
seemed like a brick but Thorson slowed down and checked it over to Luis who attacked with another 400,000.
Thorson deliberated for some time as he sighed, "I have a sick feeling I'm going to fold and you're going to show me like jack-ten of spades..."
Thorson eventually decided to let it go as he slips back to 1.3 million with Luis up to 2.5 million.
Todd Brick limped in from middle position, and Sergey Rybachenko raised to 66,000 from the button. When it came back to Brick, he three-bet it to 166,000 straight, and Rybachenko called the extra hundred thousand.
The flop brought 
, and Rybachenko took the betting lead with a 150,000-chip wager. Brick quickly called, and the action check-checked through the 
turn and 
river.
Rybachenko tabled 
for second pair, but Brick's 
had flopped better and was good enough to take the pot.
Rybachenko - 1.31 million
Brick - 1.57 million
When Joe Cada won the WSOP Main Event last year, he broke Peter Eastgate's record for being the youngest ME champ in history. When Eastgate won in 2008, he was almost 22 years, 11 months old. Cada was still 21 when he won, about a week away from his 22nd birthday.
There is one player among the remaining field who still has a shot at breaking Cada's record -- John May. And if he were to win the Main Event, one would think his record would stand for a while. That's because John May turned 21 the day before playing in Day 1d!
May began today with a little over 1.8 million chips. He's slipped some in the early going, and is now down to about 1.25 million.
Randy Dorfman has cut down the November Nine hopes of yet another player. The chips were all in pre-flop between Dorfman and David Villiard. Villiard's 
needed to improve against Dorfman's 
, and a board four-flush wasn't going to do it. There was no love for Villiard as the board developed 
to improve Dorfman to an unneeded full house. He now has about 1.46 million chips. Villiard has only a payout slip.
Matt Keikoan's last chips were all in on the river on a board of 
. Keikoan was holding 
for a flush, but the only problem was that Matthew Pearson was holding 
for a bigger flush!
Keikoan was sent to the cashier as the last Aussie standing in Pearson is making a surge in the first level of the day to now be up to 860,000.
Jean-Robert Bellande (small blind) and Jesper Hougaard (early position) together saw a flop of 
and both players checked. The turn brought the . Bellande bet 65,000, and Hougaard called.
The river was the . Bellande bet 125,000 this time, and Hougaard responded by raising all in for 458,000. Bellande tanked for some time, then folded his 
face up.
"What a river," said Bellande afterwards. "You go all in on the turn, you got me." "People give me a lot of respect at this table, huh?" responded Hougaard. "Now I know I made a good lay down," said Bellande with a smile.
Bellande has 700,000 now. Hougaard would knock out a short-stacked Claudio Baptista on the next hand, thereby moving up to 1.02 million.
Brock Bourne was all the way to the turn against his lone opponent, Kristijonas Andrulis. Bourne checked to Andrulis, who put a bet of 125,000 into the pot. Bourne then check-raised to 375,000. He was pot-committed to call a shove from Andrulis for 500,000. The showdown revealed that Andrulis had for aces and eights -- possibly a bad omen against Bourne's 
. Sure enough, an Andrulis-killing appeared on the river to fill Bourne's straight and terminate Andrulis' tournament life.
Bourne now has about 1.8 million in chps.
Jared Ingles opened to 35,000 from late position only to have Daniel Chamberlain three-bet to 85,000 from the hi-jack.
Sitting on the button, Matt Affleck cut out a four-bet amounting to 200,000 as the blinds quickly passed.
With the action back on Ingles, he tossed his cards into the muck as Chamberlain deliberated for roughly a minute before making the call to see a 
flop fall.
Chamberlain checked and Affleck fired out 225,000 before Chamberlain mulled over a decision for another minute before making the call as the peeled off on the turn.
Chamberlain checked once again before Affleck followed suit as the 
rolled off on the river before they both checked once again.
Chamberlain tabled his 
to prompt a fold from Affleck as he slipped to 2,450,000, while Chamberlain collected the pot to move to 2,550,000 in chips.
Huge pot just now involving Johnny Chan and Robert Pisano. A preflop raising war put Pisano all in for 2.19 million, and left Chan with about 800,000 behind. The hands?
Chan 
Pisano
No king came for Chan, as the dealer delivered the community cards thusly: 
. No wonder Chan's card didn't come -- two different players said they had folded kings!
"Welcome to my world," said Chan afterwards. He still has that 800,000 with which to try to make his world better. Meanwhile, Pisano is on top of our little WSOP Main Event world right now with 4.4 million.
