In the first hand back from the dinner break, Michael Dyer dragged a big pot to get back above the starting stack for the day.
The hand saw an under-the-gun Dyer put in a 6,000 river bet on a 
board, and get a call from his opponent in the cutoff. Dyer showed 
for a flopped two pair, taking down the pot and getting himself back in contention on Day 1b.
Daniel Negreanu has been moved away from the feature table. He is sat on starting stack at the moment.
Facing a button raise to 1,500, Andre Akkari defended his big blind to see a 
flop.
Akkari check-called a bet of 1,500 before both players checked down the 
and 
on the turn and river.
Akkari tabled his 
for ace-high, but his opponent revealed his 
to win the pot.
Action folded to Chris Vitch in the hijack and he opened to 1,100. Christian Stratmeyer called from the small blind and the player in the big blind three-bet to 3,500. Vitch called and Stratmeyer came along as well, taking action three ways to the flop 
. Stratmeyer checked and the big blind bet 6,400. Vitch folded and Stratmeyer called.
The turn came and Stratmeyer checked again. The big blind then announced a bet of 17,000. Stratmeyer looked at his opponent's stack which had around 31,000 behind and decided to call. The river was and both players checked.
Stratmeyer tabled 
for a set of queens and his opponent frustratedly mucked, unhappy about having given up when the board ran out in the manner it did.
All the cards were out with 
and Mina Greco was facing a bet of 11,000. After asking the dealer to confirm how much she had to call, she made her decision quickly but mucked when she saw her opponent Arthur Schiavo had hit a backdoor flush with .
Dan Colman nonchalantly returned a little late from his dinner break and barely got in his seat to receive the cards. He was faced with a raise to 1,000 from early position and Colman three-bet to 3,000 in middle position.
The action folded back to the initial raiser who mucked his 
face up. Colman showed 
as his first hand back from dinner break to win a small pot. Colman had lost nearly half of his stack prior to the dinner break and has some work to do if he wants to a bag a reasonable stack at the end of the day.
With roughly 11,000 already brewed in the pot, the flop was 
, in a three-way pot, the action checked to Alexandru Papazian on the button and he bet out 6,500 and both the player from early position and Rob Welch called.
The turn was the , the player first to act checked, Welch checked and Papazian fired out again this time for 12,000, the third player in the hand mucked and Welch check-raised to 26,000 which Papazian called.
The 
fell on the river and Welch stacked his chips on top of each other and pushed them into the middle for an all-in. Papazian immediately asked for a count and after finding out it was 44,300 he went in the tank for about 3 minutes before letting his hand go.
Between hands, Allen Kessler spotted someone he knew on the rail near his Amazon 510 table. Identifying this person as his brother, he called out to his family member.
It turned out to be none other than Robert Varkonyi, the 2002 WSOP Main Event Champion, who could bear a physical resemblance to Kessler in the eyes of some.
"Hi Allen, how are you?" said Varkonyi in a deadpan voice. The conversation didn't go any further and the Main Event returned to normal shortly thereafter.
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