We caught up to find Jason Mercier and Haralabos Voulgaris looking at in a raised pot. Mercier tossed out a bet of 1,650 on the flop.
"Are you allowed to bet less than you raised to preflop?" Voulgaris joked. Mercier had his headphones on, however, and was oblivious to Voulgaris' joke. Voulgaris decided to raise to 5,000 straight and Mercier called.
The dropped down on the turn and Mercier tapped the table. Voulgaris bet 7,000 and Mercier flung his hand at the muck allowing Voulgaris to pick up the pot.
With around 14,000 chips in the middle preflop, Aubin Cazals and another player saw a flop of . Action was checked over to Cazals, who bet 6,000. His opponent called and then checked again when the landed on the turn. Cazals calmly combined his remaining 18,000 chips into two stacks and pushed them into the middle. That was enough to get the other player off the hand, and Cazals increased his stack to around 46,000 without seeing a showdown.
A short-stacked player in the cutoff raised to 650 and Erik Seidel called from the big blind. The flop was and Seidel checked. His opponent tossed out a continuation bet of 650 and Seidel opted to raise to 1,800. His opponent called and the two saw the hit on fourth.
Seidel tried to take control of the hand here by betting 2,800 but found his opponent move all in for 5,075 total. Seidel quickly tossed away his hand and his opponent was awarded the pot. Seidel is currently sitting a little above starting stack with 34,000.
Haralabos Voulgaris played the Big One for One Drop, but unfortunately didn't end up making the final table. Today he's back at it, and before the break he got moved to Jason Mercier and Vicky Coren's table. We just saw Voulgaris rake in a very interesting pot.
Voulgaris raised from the cutoff to 700, and the player on the button three-bet to 1,800. Both blinds folded and Voulgaris four-bet to 3,500, his opponent called.
The flop came down and Voulgaris bet 4,300. The player on the button tanked for a bit, and called.
The turn was the and Voulgaris checked. The button fired out 5,900, and Voulgaris tanked before making the call.
On the river the hit, and both players checked. Voulgaris turned over and his opponent produced a wry smile as he mucked his cards.
We found 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada heads up in a pot looking down at a board of . With over 8,000 in the pot, Cada bet out 4,500.
Cada's opponent quickly called but mucked his hand when Cada tabled for trip jacks. Cada recently took his seat and has already built his stack to 47,000.
More than a dozen players posted their $10,000 buy-in before registration closed at the end of the second break. Some got here late on purpose. Others didn't...
GeorgeLindIII George Lind IIIPlanned on getting here a lil earlier but car broke down after doing some pokercast promo stuff, in 10k 6max now #wsop57July 03 2012
Yesterday, Konstantin Puchkov fell short of cashing for an 11th time in the 2012 World Series of Poker. He's currently tied with the late Nikolay Evdakov with 10 cashes and is back today looking for No. 11.
Also in today's field are Terrence Chan and Joe Tehan, both with nine cashes in this year's WSOP. We'll be keeping an eye on all three player throughout the day as the chase for history continues.
Any short-handed tournament creates tons of crazy action, and this one is no different. We just saw PCA winner Harrison Gimbel pull off a seven-bet shove against WSOPE bracelet winner Tristan Wade. And that didn't work out for him.
Wade raised under the gun to 400 and both the button and the small blind called. Gimbel was in the big blind and he raised to 2,275 after which Wade four-bet to 4,850. The two other players folded and the action was back on Gimbel.
Gimbel wasn't giving up as he put in the fifth raise to 7,850. Wade was also not giving up as he six-bet to 12,850. The hand wasn't over, because Gimbel moved all in and Wade snap-called as he turned his hand over.
Tristan Wade
Harrison Gimbel
The board ran out , and Wade could breath a sigh of relief as he just doubled up in this 400 big blind pot. Gimbel was just with just 1,000 chips and on the very next hand he lost those to Wade as well.
in a raised pot. Mercier tossed out a bet of 1,650 on the flop.
dropped down on the turn and Mercier tapped the table. Voulgaris bet 7,000 and Mercier flung his hand at the muck allowing Voulgaris to pick up the pot.
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. Action was checked over to Cazals, who bet 6,000. His opponent called and then checked again when the 
landed on the turn. Cazals calmly combined his remaining 18,000 chips into two stacks and pushed them into the middle. That was enough to get the other player off the hand, and Cazals increased his stack to around 46,000 without seeing a showdown.
and Seidel checked. His opponent tossed out a continuation bet of 650 and Seidel opted to raise to 1,800. His opponent called and the two saw the 
hit on fourth.
and Voulgaris bet 4,300. The player on the button tanked for a bit, and called.
and Voulgaris checked. The button fired out 5,900, and Voulgaris tanked before making the call.
and his opponent produced a wry smile as he mucked his cards.
. With over 8,000 in the pot, Cada bet out 4,500.
for trip jacks. Cada recently took his seat and has already built his stack to 47,000.
