It folded around to Leo Fernandez who opened to 2,000 from middle position, and his opponent sitting to his left reraised to 5,700. It folded back to Fernandez who made the call.
The flop came . So, too, arrived the cocktail waiter, who happened to be delivering coffees to both Fernandez and his opponent. Both ignored him for about a half-minute, concentrating on the hand. Then finally they paused in the proceedings long enough to settle up and receive their orders. With cups in hand, they continued what they had begun.
Fernandez checked, and his opponent quickly bet 5,600. Fernandez sat quietly for a while, then let his hand go. The Argentinian took a sip and looked back at his stack -- now 46,000.
Victor Ramdin and his 130,000 chips were just moved over to the orange section of the amazon room, and when he got to the table, he saw that he had drawn an unfortunate chair. He took his seat to the immediate right of Raul Pino, who currently has a stack of around 268,000, one of the tops in the room. Given Ramdin's agreesive nature, we are expecting plenty of action from those two, and we will be sure try and catch any big pot that develops over there.
We didn't catch the hand, but it seems Jonathan Aguiar, who had been clinging to a short stack for quite some time, was recently eliminated. As he put it on Twitter: "Busted by the guy so dumb he couldn't find his seat."
Donny and Eric Mizrachi started off today at the same table, but Eric was moved about two hours into play. Both are still alive, and both just won nice pots to boost their stacks. First Donny knocked out a short stack when his cracked his opponents on a board of . That hand has helped get his stack up to 125,000.
As we were coming back from that hand, we noticed the ESPN cameras descending upon Eric's table, and we saw that he was all in preflop for his last 6,800. He held , and was well ahead of his opponent's . The flop was safe for Eric, coming , and the turn helped and hurt Eric. It was the , and while it gave Eric a set, it gave his opponent an extra out, as he would now need one of the four jacks left to make a straight. It didn't come however, as the river brought the . Eric got the double up he needed, though he's still hurting with just over 15,000.
Nicolas Fierro has become the captain of his table, raising most of the pots we saw preflop. We happened to catch a hand where he raised to 2,000 only to have the player in the cutoff three-bet the action to 4,700.
Fierro didn't seem to be swayed that easily though, as he four-bet to 13,500. His opponent went into the tank for over a minute before finally mucking his hand. Fierro collected the chips and continued to pad one of the biggest stacks in the room.
We caught up with the action just as the dealer was dealing the flop in a raised pot between a player in middle position and Jeff Madsen in the cutoff.
The flop came and the middle-position player checked. Madsen bet 3,700 and his opponent string-called after some deliberation.
The turn fell the and Madsen's opponent checked again. Not slowing down, Madsen cut out a bet to 8,100 and placed it into the middle. His opponent checked his hole cards one last time and rapped the table.
A player opened to 2,000 from under the gun, two players called behind, and Sam Simon three-bet to 8,000 from the big blind. He received two callers, and the flop came down . All three players checked.
The on the turn paired the board, and Simon led for 8,000. The early position player called, and the river was the . Simon quickly tossed out two orange T5,000 chips, and his opponent tank-called.
Simon showed for sixes full of eights, his opponent mucked, and Simon shipped a nice pot.
While we didn't catch the elimination hands of either Randy Dorfman or Luca Pagano, we did notice another big stack in Scott Mackenzie, who has 220,000!
We caught up to the action to find Robert Varkonyi raising to 6,000 from the button. A player in early position had made it 2,000, and another player from middle position called, now they both faced a raise from Varkonyi. The player from early position fiddled around with his chips for a few moments before eventually making the call. The player in middle position followed suit and also put the chips in.
After the dealer spread out a flop the player in early position checked, and it was the middle position player who bet out 3,000. Varkonyi made the call while the early position player dropped his cards in the muck.
The on the turn brought with it a bet of 3,000 from the player in middle position and a raise to 9,000 from Varkonyi. Varkonyi's opponent barely thought about it and threw in the appropriate amount of chips.
A river changed nothing for Varkonyi's opponent who bet out again, this time only 2,000. Varkonyi's head slowly drooped like he just witnessed the worst possible out come for the hand. Varkonyi stared at the felt in front of him for a moment or two before he threw out a bet large enough to put his opponent all in who had around 30,000 in chips. Varkonyi's opponent fooled around with some chips in his hand for a while before ultimately folding. Varkonyi was awarded the pot and received a handful of "nice hands" from the players at his table
. So, too, arrived the cocktail waiter, who happened to be delivering coffees to both Fernandez and his opponent. Both ignored him for about a half-minute, concentrating on the hand. Then finally they paused in the proceedings long enough to settle up and receive their orders. With cups in hand, they continued what they had begun.
. That hand has helped get his stack up to 125,000.
, and was well ahead of his opponent's 
. The flop was safe for Eric, coming 
, and the turn helped and hurt Eric. It was the 
. Eric got the double up he needed, though he's still hurting with just over 15,000.
and the middle-position player checked. Madsen bet 3,700 and his opponent string-called after some deliberation.
and Madsen's opponent checked again. Not slowing down, Madsen cut out a bet to 8,100 and placed it into the middle. His opponent checked his hole cards one last time and rapped the table.
on the turn paired the board, and Simon led for 8,000. The early position player called, and the river was the 
for sixes full of eights, his opponent mucked, and Simon shipped a nice pot.
flop the player in early position checked, and it was the middle position player who bet out 3,000. Varkonyi made the call while the early position player dropped his cards in the muck.
river changed nothing for Varkonyi's opponent who bet out again, this time only 2,000. Varkonyi's head slowly drooped like he just witnessed the worst possible out come for the hand. Varkonyi stared at the felt in front of him for a moment or two before he threw out a bet large enough to put his opponent all in who had around 30,000 in chips. Varkonyi's opponent fooled around with some chips in his hand for a while before ultimately folding. Varkonyi was awarded the pot and received a handful of "nice hands" from the players at his table
