We just witnessed our first preflop four-bet here at this unofficial almost-final table.
Dan Steinberg opened to 42,000 and a couple seats to his left Ronald Lee made it 110,000 to go. Back to Steinberg, who tanked briefly before making it what looked like 262,000 from a distance. Now it was Lee's turn to tank, but not for too long - he folded, and Steinberg took the pot to applause from his rail.
Everyone's got their bellies full of delicious pub food and crepes from the creperie upstairs. They're back in their seats, they're wide-eyed and chatty, and it's time to get down to business.
The blinds are up, and we're one knockout away from the final table of the WSOPE Main Event.
First hand back, and we've already seen more action than most of the last level put together.
Fabrizio Baldassari opened for 55,000 in the cutoff and Dan Steinberg called in the small blind to see an flop, which he checked. Baldassari bet another 108,000, and Steinberg called.
The turn was the and this time Steinberg bet out to the tune of 210,000. For a moment we thought that Baldassari was interested - but he was actually just showing his cards to the hole card cameras before folding.
Steinberg took the pot, and is now roughly tying for second place with Ronald Lee, on around 1.58 million.
Daniel Steinberg opened the pot to (what looked like) 51,000 from the button, and big blind Ronald Lee called to see a flop.
It came , and Lee check-called a bet of 40,000. Both players check-checked the turn, and the cued Lee into action. He took the betting lead with a wager of 106,000, and Steinberg took his pause. After a moment, he slid his glasses off and glared at Lee for several agonizing seconds, trying to get a read.
Eventually, Steinberg thought better of it and returned his cards to the muck.