We caught the action on the turn when 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela bet out and was called by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The latter took the lead on fifth street and proceeded to bet out, which Kassela called. The same action took place on sixth before both players checked seventh.
Kassela: (x)
/ 
Grospellier: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Kassela took down the pot with two pair and pushed the defending champ one step closer to the rail.
David Singer just got pretty significant value against Anthony Ruberto.
Ruberto: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Singer: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
After a bring-in and a completion, Ruberto raised, and Singer raised again. Ruberto called, and it was heads-up to fourth. Singer got bets in on each of the following streets with Ruberto paying him off each time.
We only got to see Singer's cards. His 
/ was good enough, and Singer looks to be the chip leader at the moment. He's over 65,000.
Tim Finne completed with the up, and Bill Chen raised with the . Finne called, and off they went.
Finne: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Chen: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
Finne check-called bets on fourth and fifth streets, and both men checked through sixth. Finne made a bet of his own on seventh, and Chen made the call.
Chen tabled 
/ , and his jacks were good.
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After Paul Volpe brought it in with the 
, Matt Hawrilenko completed and Freddie Ellis called. Raymond Dehkharghani then put in two-bets, Volpe folded, and Hawrilenko three-bet. Ellis got out of the way and Dehkharghani called. The latter proceeded to call bets from Hawrilenko on every street, only to muck when his opponent announced, "Aces full," on seventh.
Hawrilenko: 
/ 
/ 
Dehkharghani: (x-x) / 
/ (x)
We've just broken a table, and it's created quite a fun Table 458. Frank Kassela, Jason Mercier, Cyndy Violette, and ElkY were already at that table, and they've just been joined by Allen Bari and Shaun Deeb.
Bari and Deeb sat to the direct left of Mercier in that order, and that was not what Jason wanted to see. "Man... if I could pick two players that I didn't..." he trailed off.
Mercier is two-tabling WSOP events right now (and soon to be three), and he took this opportunity to go sprint back across the room to play his stack in Event #9.
We've had a flurry of eliminations right off the bat here on Day 2. We didn't catch them all, but we do know that both David Chiu and Robert Zipf were eliminated in the same hand over at Table 451. The culprit who did them in? None other than Victor Ramdin.
Brett Richey has just become the first casualty of this Day 2. He was short-stacked when he got his chips in, and he did manage to run out an ace-high flush. It was ace-ten high, though, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier ran out an ace-queen high straight to earn the pot and the knockout.
The table was sympathetic of Richey as he gathered his things and paced away.
While most of our readers are familiar with the big-bet games in poker like No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha, today's Event 10: $5,000 Seven Card Stud will be played in a limit format and one some people may not be acquainted with.
Seven Card Stud is the most popular version of stud poker and generally played anywhere between two and eight players at a time and the one that's featured in today's 5:00 PM event, an event won by Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier last year.
If a player stays in until the end of a hand, he or she will receive a total of seven cards. To start, each player is dealt two cards face down followed by a third card face up. Each player would then receive three more cards face up followed by the seventh and final card face down. There is a betting round after each street and often an ante before anyone receives any cards.
To become more familiar with the action, the betting rounds and all things Seven Card Stud, head over to the PokerNews Poker Rules: Seven Card Stud page and check things out. Once you're ready to test your skills on the felt, you can **play poker online by checking out one of our many PokerNews offers.
For some more information on Seven Card Stud, along with other mixed games, check out our Learning Mixed Games with Ville Wahlbeck article. There is also a Strategy with Kristy podcast featuring Chris George where he discusses mixed games with Kristy Arnett that includes some Seven Card Stud talk, so be sure to check that out as well.
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Cards are in the air here on Day 2 of Event #10 $5,000 Seven Card Stud. The plan for the day is to play ten levels, and we expect that'll take us into the money and close to a final table.
For a list of the remaining players based on chip counts, click here.
For a look by seat draw, click here.
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