The action folds to Dominykas Karmazinas in the small blind and the Lithuanian makes it 625 to play, a price Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy is prepared to call. The dealer puts out the flop, Karmazinas checks, Josephy bets 1,400, Karmazinas comes over the top and raises to 3,200 then instantly calls when Josephy moves all in.
Karmazinas
Josephy
The turn is the and the river the and Josephy doubles up, leaving his opponent with just 1,800 chips.
"Wow. I thought I was dead," said Josephy, "But I liked the turn!"
The legend Johnny Chan is one of the latest arrivals in the field and sat down at table Harman and Sands.
David Sands just Tweeted: "Got it in as 99% favorite on flop and held vs shorter stack. We lost kostrisyn but Johnny chan sat down late. 7 handed, i have 15k."
James Dempsey's table is also playing four-handed right now now and their number was nearly reduced to three after the Brit found himself all-in, and behind.
He raise-called off his 9,000 stack in a blind battle with Dominykas Karmazinas. His needed to hit against the Lithuanian's and it certainly manged that through the board.
There are three tables playing four-handed right now and all other tables are playing five or more.
Sean Getzwiller is in control of table 12 with 36,000 chips. He has, amoungst others, a certain Scott Seiver (15k) to overcome before he can move on to tomorrow.
Andrew Robl doubled-up early and is still firmly in control of table 21 with around 40,000 chips.
Alexiou Konstantinos has all the power right now on table 24. The Greek optician has 40,000 chips, dwarfing his three remaining rivals.
On a board reading [7j6s6c7d] Erik Seidel checked in the under the gun seat and Selbst, on the button, bet 500. The eight-time WSOP bracelet winner makes the call. The on the river is greeted with a check from Seidel, a bet of 1,100 from Selbst and a call from Seidel.
Two players who are usually flamboyantly dressed, but today look rather smart and casual, Bertand "ElkY" Grospellier and Max Pescatori have just clashed in a button versus small blind battle.
ElkY raised from the button and Pescatori called from the small blind. The flop came down , Pescatori bet 800 and ElkY called. The river was the and pescatori bet again, this time 1,500 which was enough to fold out ElkY.
Dan Negreanu has handed over his table chip lead to his neighbour Hasan Anter.
The two were heads-up and post flop Negreanu check-called bets of 1,800 and 4,275 before facing an all-in bet of about 8,500 on the river. The final board read .
Negreanu likes to think aloud when he has the final decision in a hand and it was no different this time.
"You have ace-jack with the jack of diamonds", he voiced. "Or jack-ace with the ace of diamonds; one of the two", he continued.
The Canadian peeked at his cards one last time before releasing his hand to drop to around 14,000 chips.