The first tables in the orange section now get broken and the tan section is already completely empty. We are down to 684 players and these familiar faces on the poker circuit are still hanging in there.
They still keep on pouring out as barely any minute actually passes without the "payout table x" announcements from the dealers. Buck Ramsay just took care of a short stack after min raising and then calling the three-bet shove for another eight bib blinds with . His opponent had kings but the board gave him the nut flush.
Steven van Zadelhoff doubled up with pocket aces against pocket kings and is now above average on a table with Bart Lybaert. Loren Klein was all in with versus and the flop instantly delivered an ace to leave him with three antes. That would be a hell of a comeback story if he spins it up again.
Charles Chattha got his ten big blind stack in via three-bet shove with and was called by to hit the rail after a blank board. He is one of about 100 players that joined the rail within half an hour once the bubble burst.
Andrew Seidman looks to be our chip leader, but his reign at the top is under threat from James Glenn.
Glenn beckoned us over to tell us about a hand that went down before the bubble burst, one that should have seen him exiting before the money.
"It was aces versus threes," Glenn began, "I had threes, he had the aces."
According to Glenn and the gentleman to his left, a near 90,000 pot was created when the chips went flying in on an flop, Glenn being a massive underdog. The turn bricked but the river was a three, improving Glenn to quads and sending the poor soul with a set of aces to the sidelines with a legitimate bad beat story to tell anyone within earshot.
Sometimes in poker you have to get lucky and Glenn was certainly that.
Once in the money it didn't take long for the floodgates to open and we lost 35 players within a mere ten minutes. The eliminated players should be updated within the next hours as they appear on the WSOP home page.
British star Jake Cody has busted inside the money at the hands of Ashly Butler.
Cody was all-in for 5,700 from the cutoff and received a call from the small blind. Butler, in the big blind, raised to 13,700 and after much dwelling the small blind folded.
Butler:
Cody:
"I'm quite good at these!" said Cody with a smile.
The flop was extremely safe for Butler, although the turn caused a few raised eyebrows as it gave Cody outs to a straight. Those outs failed to materialize as the was the river card.
"When can you late register for the $1k?" asked Cody.
Upon discovering you can register to the end of level six, Cody headed to the registration desk.
Kevin Allen was cruising along but is now extremely short on chips after losing a huge.
All was all in on the board and his opponent eventually called, showing as he did so. Allen flipped over and needed a ten, six or jack to avoid losing the vast majority of his stack. The river was the and the kings held, leaving Allen with around 7,000 chips.