Chris Moorman is motoring right now and has 36,000 chips in his stack. His table has become slightly more shark-infested with the introduction of Paul Volpe.
While scouting around the tournament floor here in the vast Brasilia Room, our quest to bring you some exciting hand action, we fell upon two very rare occurrences that are hardly ever seen in the poker world.
The first thing that left us flabbergasted was seeing Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi fold three consecutive hands. On another table, Chris Moorman folded on the button when first to act.
We'll keep a look out for other rarities in the coming days.
Shannon Shorr was facing an all-in bet on the river of a board. The all-in bet of around 5,000 covered Shorr by a mere 700 chips and it really gave Shorr something to think about.
Shorr sat studying his opponent, who was trying to hide any physical tells by covering the bottom half of his face with his jersey. Shorr looked at his opponent's face, his feet, and his posture before muttering something inaudible. After a 90 seconds or so, Shorr let his hand go.
After a raise from a player in the hijack, Andrew Lichtenberger moved all in from the small blind and received a call.
Lichtenberger:
Opponent:
Lichtenberger caught a pair on the flop and held after the board completed . Lichtenberger and others are likely looking to go big or go bust late in the day as this strategy would allow a potential reentry for Day 1B if their fate is the latter.
As the day draws to a close, we've been on the look out for some of the bigger stacks in the room. One massive stack belongs to Matt Lapossie who has turned his 4,000 starting stack into 76,000.
Also nicely stacked is Vince Bryant with 75,000 and Valentino Konakchiev with 60,000 chips.
Erik Seidel moved all-in for around starting stack and Jason Helder three-bet from the next seat along to isolate the eight-time World Series of Poker champion.
Seidel showed and Helder the . The board ran and Seidel was gone.