After a few hands of back and forth raise-and-takes, Daniel Simms moved in with 
and was quickly called by the "Poker Brat."
Hellmuth tabled 
, and after Simms wished the 13-time WSOP bracelet winner good luck, the dealer rolled out a 
final board.
This win moved Simms back into a healthy chip position, and he will have a little more room to maneuver against one of the most accomplished poker players in the world.
Level: 4c
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante:
The match between Sam Stein and Brandon Steven was relatively one sided with Stein winning most of the crucial pots. The match finally came to a head when the duo took a flop of 
and Steven led out. Stein raised enough to put him all in and Steven called.
Steven: 
Stein: 
Stein's jacks were ahead and he was able to fade the diamonds as the turn brought the and the river the 
.
A few tables over, Thiago Nishijima became the next to move on when his pocket sixes outlived Ludovic Lacay's ace-queen after a preflop all in.
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Level: 5c
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante:
We just witnessed a prime example of why the big buy-in events at the WSOP are considered to be the pinnacle of high-level poker.
With the board reading 
, Joe Cada moved all-in and put Davidi Kitai to the ultimate test for his tournament life.
Kitai went deep into the tank and sat still as a statue, staring intently across the table at Cada searching for some semblance of a read. After more than five minutes of deliberation, during which Cada returned Kitai's stare with a level gaze of his own, the Belgian pro had still not come to a decision.
Eventually, Cada elected to call for a clock, but before the tournament staff could make it over with a timer, Kitai plunked his stack into the pot for a call.
Cada's shoulders slouched when he realized Kitai had called, and he reluctantly turned over 
for a stone bluff. Kitai tabled the 
for a rivered pair, and with this hero call he doubled his way back into the match.
We arrived at the table to find Ben Sulsky put David Peters all in before the flop from the big blind. Peters snapped him off on the button for his last 47,500 and flipped over 
which was well ahead of Sulsky's 
.
Peters flopped top set on the 
flop and the hit the turn, giving Sulsky king outs to make Broadway. The 
completed the board and Peters was able to drag in a double up to about 95,000 in chips.
After playing two of the longest matches in the first two rounds, Melanie Weisner just dispatched Chino Rheem in yet another marathon heads-up session.
The crippling hand occurred on a 
board, when Weisner responded to a check by Rheem with an all-in shove for 29,000.
Rheem tanked for a while before ultimately deciding to release his hand, but he asked Weisner for the courtesy of seeing a single card from her hand. She obliged, allowing Rheem to choose the card, and he turned over the 
. Afterward, he told Wesiner that he folded trip fives, thinking she had made a straight.
Soon after this fold, Rheem was all-in with 
against Wesiner's 
, and the ace-high held up to send her into the Round of 32.
The two friends began the match with Rheem telling a late arriving Weisner that her stack was being blinded off, and when the chips were stacked in Weisner's corner she couldn't resist the chance to get a needle in of her own.
"Is that 2-for-2 or 3-for-3 against you heads up?" she asked, with a mischievous smile spreading across her face.
"I think that's 80-for-80," he answered quickly, showing that every poker player remembers the losses more than the wins.
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Level: 6c
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante:
I won! Last hand TTvJ9o and flopped quads. I like ending matches with quads. Day 2 tomorrow.Follow @nanonoko
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AP Phahurat is the latest player to advance to the final 32. Phahurat, who has already had a stellar 2013 with a second place finish at the World Series of Poker Circuit Caesar's Palace Las Vegas Main Event and an 11th place finish in the EPT Berlin High Roller, is looking to go for a deep run in this heads up tournament and score his second cash at this summer's WSOP.
Phahurat defeated Johannes Strassmann in his third round match. On the final hand, Strassmann was all in before the flop holding 
and was looking healthy by dominating Phahurat's 
. Phahurat paired up, however, as the flop brought 
and vaulted him into the lead. The turn was the and the river the , ensuring that Phahurat's pair of sixes would hold as the best hand and earn him a spot among the final 32 runners.
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