Darren Elias and an opponent both checked on a flop of 
. The turn was the 
, Elias' opponent flipped forward 6,500, and Elias called.
The 
completed the board, the player moved all in for 20,600, and Elias tanked for a minute or so before calling. The player turned over 
for Broadway, and Elias tossed his hand into the muck.
Matthew Honig raised it up to 1,400 from under the gun, and the player in the cutoff raised all in for his last 8,750. It folded back around to Honig, and he elected to make the call.
Honig: 
Opponent: 
Honig was in rough shape, and it went from bad to worse when the flop came 
. Honig could only hope for runner runner to win, but the 
on the turn ended things. The 
on the river was a bit of a needle for Honig, who dropped to 25,350 after that hand.
Juha Helppi check-called a bet of 3,000 on a board of 
. The river brought another nine, the 
. Helppi checked, and this time his opponent bet a whopping 20,000.
Helppi went into the tank, and after a couple of minutes, his opponent playfully slid two of the orange T5,000 chips back, leaving 10,000 out there.
"I would have actually called that, but this, I don't know," Helppi said with a laugh. "Will you show me if I fold? One card maybe?"
His opponent just smiled, and Helppi folded after about another minute or so.
Helppi will have to console himself with his well-above-average stack.
On the paired 
flop, one player checked to Jason DeWitt. DeWitt fired 2,100, and the player behind him raised to 5,400. The first player then called, and DeWitt also called.
The turn was the 
, and the first player checked. DeWitt bet 11,200, and the player behind who had raised the flop decided to fold. The first player then called.
The river completed the board with the 
, and the first player led with a bet of 15,000. DeWitt tanked for a bit before folding and dropping back to under 100,000 in chips.
Dan Smith came into the day with over 100 big blinds, as his stack was at 54,575. Well nothing went his way in the first level fo play, as he was all the way down to 8,000 at one point. Well he has been doing work in the second level, as he is now back up to 42,000. We will keep tabs on Smith to see if his crazy day continues.
Prior to the start of play today, Russell Thomas — a.k.a. @RunGoodRussell, the fourth-place finisher in last year's WSOP Main Event — got a look at his starting table and sent out a tweet a short while before starting play.
Many players tend to check the seat draws before the start of a new day at the Main Event, and while Tracy Skeen — Seat 1 at Thomas's table — admits she isn't too up on searching the web, she has a friend who is and who filled her in on many of her opponents at today's table.
Just now she was sharing with the table what her friend found out about them all. "He should be a private eye!" she added, and then mentioned Thomas's tweet.
"I was just saying I liked my table," said Thomas by way of explanation and with a sheepish grin. "You mean you weren't saying 'nut in Seat 1'?" asked Skeen jokingly, and Thomas grinned.
Skeen then started identifying some of the others at the the table, and the chuckles continued. "Stop telling everyone our names!" said one, and the table laughed some more.
Of course, the further these players go, the more likely their names will become better known to others, something Thomas well knows thanks to his deep run from a year ago.
On a board of 
and the pot swelling at around 15,000 we found Elisabeth Hille betting out 10,500 only to have her opponent move all in for roughly 35,000.
Hille instantly called and tabled her 
to have her opponent and his 
drawing dead.
The river changed nothing, and as Hille raked in the pot, multiple players on her table said a combination of "good hand" and "nice hand" as she quietly stacked her chips to roughly 130,000 and change.
Action had folded all the way to Ryan Fair who was in the cutoff seat. He raised to 1,500. A few seats over the player on the button reraised all in for a just about 6,200. Action folded back to Fair and he quickly made the call.
All In: 
Fair:
The flop came down which gave Fair a few more outs to a gutshot straight draw. The turn was the 
though, giving Fair and open-ended straight draw, but also taking away any heart as an out. The river was the 
and that gave the all in player the nut flush, allowing him to double up his very short stack through Fair.
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