Over on table 358, the action folded to David Stimpel who open-shoved for 51,000 from early position preflop; the action then folded to Jeff "The Messenger" Blenkarn in the big blind, who after peeking down at his cards, asked for a count, but before the dealer started cutting them down, he announced, "I call."
Blenkarn: 
Stimpel: 
Blenkarn improved to two pair after the dealer spread the board of 
and sent Stimpel to the rail. Blenkarn's now up to almost 240,000 in chips.
Duane Alexander raised to 14,000 preflop before Vanessa Rousso reraised to 40,000 behind him. Alexander made the call before checking the 
across to her. Rousso bet 60,000 and Alexander quickly check-raised to 210,000 putting in around a third of his stack in the middle.
Rousso thought briefly but ended up flicking her cards into the muck, dropping below 800,000
Philipp Gruissem had an opponent all in and at risk preflop. Gruissem's had his opponent's 
crushed, yet Gruissem seemed nervous.
"I have a bad feeling about this one," he announced.
The flop came down 
, giving Gruissem's opponent a pair of eights, and the bricked on the turn. Gruissem had to just dodge two eights, but failed to do so when the 
spiked on the river.
"Oh my god!" Claudia Crawford exclaimed. "You were right!"
Gruissem wasn't as excited as Crawford, and saw his stack slip to 565,000 chips.
"All in and a call!"
So goes the traditional call signaling to the circling camera crews a player is all in and at risk, heard again here on the first hand back from the break. In this instance, Max Heinzelmann was giving action to a short-stacked competitor. Heinzelmann had and was behind his opponent's 
.
The board ran out 
and Heinzelmann's opponent survived. The young German took about a 125,000-chip hit on that one, and now sits with 830,000.
The new feature table's line is as follows:
Seat 1: Philipp Hochhuth
Seat 2: Brett Flood
Seat 3: Duane Alexander
Seat 4: David Bach
Seat 5: Jonathan Garneau
Seat 6: Joe Serock
Seat 7: Nachman Berlin
Seat 8: Vanessa Rousso
Seat 9: Maynard Little
The secondary feature table remains the same with Sam Barnhart leading the entire field.
Cards are back in the air following the dinner break. They will finish the second hour of the Level 17, take a break and then play one two-hour level.
It has been an exciting day here at the Rio on Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event. Today the bubble burst and 693 people made the money. Last year’s November Niner Joseph Cheong knocked out the 694th player, Reza Kashani with quad queens.
There are still a handful of Team PokerStars Pros left in the field who have made the money. Sebastian Ruthenberg is at the top of the leader board when it comes to Team Pros. He sits with 1,124,000 chips. Vanessa Rousso is also at the top of the leader board with 854,000 chips. JP Kelly is in with around 400,000 in chips and Tony Hachem has around 300,000 in chips. Daniel Negreanu is down to 89,000 in chips going into the dinner break. You can read about a few of his hands on the PokerStars Blog here.
Unfortunately Dennis Phillips, was eliminated on the last hand before dinner break. He moved all in from the small blind with 
and the big blind called with . The board ran out 
and Phillips was sent to the rail in 557th place.
To read more about Team PokerStars Pros here on PokerNews and on the PokerStarsBlog.com.
Day 4 brings lots of action as players are now "in the money."
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