Defending Casino Employee champion Hoai Pham has just been moved to the same table as WPT Tournament Director Matt Savage. Savage is sitting with around 4,500 while Pham has a commanding lead of the table with about 14,000. Should be an interesting table to watch.
Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts and working at the Bellagio over on the East Coast, Chris Roberts raised all in from middle position for 1,825. His was called by the player in the small blind and saw the bad news as his 
was dominated by the 
for his opponent.
Even tough he was dominated, ROberts may have some Irish Boston blood in him that was able to give him some luck. The board ran out 
and Roberts won the pot. He's up to 3,850 now.
James Blaszkiewizz and a short stacked opponent got all the money in preflop in a classic race situation.
Blaszkiewizz: 
Opponent: 
Blaszkiewizz hit the flop of 
and held the lead after the turn 
and river 
.
After collecting the chips, Blaszkiewizz has cracked the 10,000 mark with a stack of 10,200.
After getting it all in preflop, Christopher Perez showed and a woman in middle position revealed 
. The board ran out 
, chipping Perez up to 5,700.
Brad Kotzn from the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit, Michigan would like to give a shoutout to Rob Kost back home checking out the updates. We'll try and keep on Kotzn from here on out. Looks to be doing well right now and in good spirits at the first break.
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The players are on their first 20-minute break of the day.
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Rich Gladman's heartrate was probably racing after the hand we saw before the break. He raised to 375 preflop and another player raised to 1,100. Gladman stared his opponent down for quite awhile before making the call. The flop came 
. Gladman checked and the other player pushed all in. Gladman snap called and flipped over his for a flopped set. His opponent held the 
and was going to need help to take the lead. That help came in the form of the on the turn to give him a straight. Gladman's only hope was for the board to pair and indeed it did when the 
fell on the river to give Gladman the win.
We saw all-in action pre-flop between Tim Conrad of the California Grand Bay Area and his opponent. Conrad held and his opponent held 
. The board ran out 
and now Conrad sits with 7,700 chips in front of him.
Charles Fisher from the Palms Casino doubled up with pocket Kings. Fisher raised to 400 in the cutoff position and found two callers in the big blind and the player under the gun.
The flop brought the 
and every player checked. The turn brought the 
and the big blind led out with 1,200. The player under the gun folded and Fisher called. The river came up the and the big blind pushed Fisher all in for 1,300. Fisher called and showed the 
, beating his opponent's to double up.
