Eli Elezra opened to 3,000 and was quickly three-bet by an opponent to 7,100.
"Don't you know who that man is? He's a TV star," chimed in Tom McEvoy before mucking his hand.
Action folded back around to Elezra and he made the call. The flop came and Eli checked. His opponent bet 7,400 and Elezra quickly called.
The turn brought the and Elezra checked once again. His opponent fired out 13,400 and Elezra went into the tank before finally folding. As he folded he flashed his hand to the opposite side of the table and his opponent asked what he showed.
"It's not your business what I show", snapped Elezra quickly. "You show your hand and I'll tell you. I had ace-queen of spades."
Regardless of what he had, Elezra hand was put into the muck and he is now down to around 120,000 in chips.
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Apparently we missed a bit of a monster pot just before the break.
Filippo Candio had about 120,000 chips one hand before the recess, and now one hand after, he has just 900 left. We got the details from Chris Lovett, the man who ended up dragging the big pot. Candio was the first raiser, and Lovett was the one doing the shoving with pocket jacks. Candio called off all but his last 900 with , and he'd never catch up. The board ran , and Lovett had the pot locked up one card early.
Filippo Candio has now drawn the television cameras to his table as he is officially on elimination watch. Lovett has about 240,000 after binking that big double.
With the players now on their last break of the night, it's time to bring you up to speed with the latest from Day 2a of the 2011 WSOP Main Event (i.e. those who can't be bothered scrolling down):
Simon Borg, Steve Schlesberger, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Barry Shulman, Andy Bloch, Wendeen Eolis and NBA superstar Paul "The Truth" Pierce were amongst the latest casualties in the last couple of hours, with funny man Brad Garrett struggling for chips, along with Phil Hellmuth, who is being watched like a hawk by the ESPN production crew.
It's been mixed fortunes for Jason Mericier, Sorel Mizzi and Jason Alexander, as well as Daniel Negreanu, but he's starting to find his groove after he busted Fred Goldberg over on the feature table. However, Pim de Goede, Greg Vogelsong and Shaun Deeb are beginning to move on up.
They'll still have to work a little harder to catch Ankush Mandavia, who currently leads the pack with 368,000. He's followed closely by Stephane Albertini (350,000), Tom Carpenter (341,000), Aleksandr Mozhnyakov (355,000) and Don Nguyen (332,000).
and Eli checked. His opponent bet 7,400 and Elezra quickly called.
and Elezra checked once again. His opponent fired out 13,400 and Elezra went into the tank before finally folding. As he folded he flashed his hand to the opposite side of the table and his opponent asked what he showed.
, and he'd never catch up. The board ran 
, and Lovett had the pot locked up one card early.