Gaelle Baumann of France has already cashed once at this summer's WSOP, earning $5,265 for a 123rd-place finish in Event 46: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em.
She appears primed to make another cash here today — and perhaps a deep run — after assuming the chip lead during the early evening. She currently appears among the first to have eclipsed the 50,000-chip mark thus far.
Victoria Coren's run has ended shy of the cash, thanks to a couple of unfortunate hands.
In one, Coren saw her 
beaten by an opponent holding 
when the latter made a straight on the river. Short-stacked after that one, Coren was all in against two players with 
on a jack-high flop only to be outdrawn by one holding .
We started out today with all four sections of the Brasilia Room — Red, Bronze, Gold, and Silver — filled with players, although now we're down to just the Gold and part of the Silver. Here's a sampling of counts from the remaining tables.
Level: 8
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Lisa Parsons has done well thus far today, pushing up among the leaders early on and remaining there as we near the end of Level 7. Parsons is no stranger to doing well at the WSOP, having final tabled this event in 2009 (finishing seventh) and also making a deep run in the WSOP Main Event in 2008 when she finished 76th.
Just now Parsons saw a short-stacked opponent open with a raise from middle position, and when it folded back to her in the blinds she reraised, forcing a bit of thinking from her opponent and then finally a fold.
"I had a pair," said her opponent. "I did, too," said Parsons. Further conversation revealed Parsons probably had something better than the sixes or sevens of her opponent, and so it might well have been a good fold.
In any event, Parsons adds a few more chips to the tall stacks she's already built.
Defending champion Marsha Wolak has chipped up slowly during the afternoon and early evening. Wolak won this event last summer by defeating a field of 1,055 to take the bracelet and $192,344 first prize.
She's outlasted more than 650 players already this year, too, as the field has shrunk below 300. Currently she sitting with just under 9,000 chips, giving her almost an average stack at present.
Victoria Coren, author of the excellent poker-themed memoir For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker, has done a fair bit of writing about poker, so we'll let her report on the status of the event at present:
VictoriaCoren Victoria Coren 300 left in the ladies' event (from 936). 117 will win money - which is too many really. Though I don't spose I'll think that if I'm 117th.
June 29 2012
Barbara Enright, winner of this event two times (in 1986 and 1994), has just been eliminated.
The Poker Hall of Famer also owns a third WSOP bracelet for winning the a pot-limit hold'em event in 1996. Enright, of course, is the only woman ever to make a WSOP Main Event final table, having finished fifth in 1995.
Players continue to hit the rail at a rapid pace, with Timmi Derosa, Wendeen Eolis, Pamela Brunson, Marie-Lizette Acoba, and Marsha Waggoner among those who have been ousted of late.
Jamie Kerstetter has come back from the break to continue her winning ways, having just picked up another pot to push close to 30,000 and the current leaders.
With the board showing 
and about 2,000 already in the middle, Kerstetter's opponent checked, she bet 700, and her opponent called. The river brought the 
and another check, and this time Kerstetter pushed out a bet of 1,800.
After tanking for a bit, her opponent finally called, saying "nice hand" as though realizing even when calling she wasn't good. Indeed, she wasn't, as Kerstetter turned over 
for a full house.
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