Under the gun, Dan Fleyshman limped into the pot, and the three players to his left folded. Action was on Nicolas Levi, and he capped his cards and sat in "The Thinker" pose for a long while. He was gazing at Fleyshman, and Levi eventually grabbed all 420,000 of his chips and slid them forward.
The table quickly folded back around to Fleyshman, and he smirked at the decision. He and Levi bantered for a few quick seconds, but the limper eventually figured a fold was his best play, and he released his cards into the muck.
Brian Powell raised to 57,000 under the gun and got calls from Roland de Wolfe in the cutoff and Fabrizio Baldassari in the big blind. They saw a flop.
Flop:
Baldassari bet out 150,000 and Powell flat-called. De Wolfe folded, and they were heads up to the turn.
Turn:
Baldassari bet out again, this time 170,000. Powell thought about it for a moment, and then announced all in for an additional 146,000, looking as though he was concentrating very hard indeed. After a moment Baldassari gave it up.
Powell showed him for his trouble.
Powell moved up to 700,000 with that. Baldassari looked rather frustrated as he dropped to 600,000.
From the cutoff seat, Dan Fleyshman raised to 48,000 (an educated guess on the amount, as we can't really see very well during this hand), and Roland de Wolfe reraised. We won't even guess at the amount of the three-bet (okay we will; it was about 150,000), because Fleyshman instantly splashed the call into the pot, and the dealer pulled the bets in before we could catch a glimpse.
Anyways, enough guessing. We know for certain that the flop was , and de Wolfe checked. In his favorite move, Fleyshman grabbed a fist full of nickel chips and slid out a bet of 115,000 like a string of red pearls across the felt. De Wolfe gave it just a cursory look before pitching his cards into the muck.
That pot puts Fleyshman over the two-million chip mark, the first one to crest that milestone here today. He's at 2,005,000, dropping de Wolfe down under 1.2 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.
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.
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.
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for his trouble.
, and de Wolfe checked. In his favorite move, Fleyshman grabbed a fist full of nickel chips and slid out a bet of 115,000 like a string of red pearls across the felt. De Wolfe gave it just a cursory look before pitching his cards into the muck.
, 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.
flop, which he checked. Baldassari bet another 108,000, and Steinberg called.
