The Yellow section is becoming more mellow by the minute, as more than half the tables there have broken.

Joe Sebok	72,000	28,300
Rob Pisano	70,000	12,000
Anton Wigg	68,000	-2,000
Lyle Berman	65,000	35,000
Todd Brunson	61,500	4,000
Raymond Davis	58,000
James Bord	50,000	22,000
Mike Leah	37,400	4,800
Paul Wasicka	32,100
Matt Ashton	30,900	4,700
Van Marcus	25,200	-5,800
Eric Buchman	25,000	-10,000
Eddy Sabat	3,275	-24,925

With about 2,500 in the pot and a board reading , an unknown player in the big blind bet 1,800 and put the pressure on 2010 November Niner Jason Senti. The Minnesota native thought for a minute before releasing his hand, leaving himself 10,950.

While it is only about a third of the starting stack, Senti managed to prove he knows how to work a short stack at last year's final table.

Jason Senti

10,950

-19,050

It's been a miserable day for Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier thus far, but a recent double up does provide the bracelet winner with hope of turning it around.

With the board reading , ElkY got it all in for his last few thousand with , besting his opponent's .

Bertrand Grospellier

11,000

4,500

There was about 2,000 in the middle and the flop had come when it checked to David Daneshgar. He bet 1,200, then his opponent check-raised to 3,250. Daneshgar thought for a while, then called.

The turn was the . Daneshgar's opponent checked once more, and he took the invitation to bet again, this time 4,575. His opponent tanked, then emerged to fold, showing one card -- a -- as he did.

Daneshgar is back to about 27,000.

There was interesting situation over at Greg Mueller's table a few minutes ago. The under the gun player opened for 900 and Mueller called from the big blind. Both players checked the flop. The turn came and Mueller check-called 900. The river came , Mueller checked and his opponent bet 1,800.

At that point Mueller said, " I had you on ace-queen and I had you beat until the river club," and exposed his hand - without a club. His opponent told him he didn't have a club and showed him .

The problem is Mueller hadn't mucked his hand, it was still live. He asked the dealer what his options were and a floor was called. The floor ruled that since he hadn't folded his hand was still live and could fold, call or raise.

Mueller took the high road and folded his hand surrendering the pot to his opponent.

Our PokerNews reporter caught up with the action between Jonathan Spinks and Rene Angelil on a flop that read ; Spinks check-called Angelil's post-flop bet, then did the same after Angelil fired out 1,500 on the turn.

Both players then checked down the river and Angelil tabled , but was out-kicked by Spinks' . Spinks is now up to almost 60,000, while Angelil is still around the starting stack of 30,000.

Jonathan Spinks	59,000	34,200
Rene Angelil	30,300	4,900

When we reached Table 365, the flop had already fallen . There was a bet of 5,500, a raise to 12,000, and a third gentleman called all in for 10,500. The original bettor called, and while the dealer pulled in all the bets, the all-in player got out of his seat.

"Rich Murnick," he told our tournament reporter. "Montclair, New Jersey."

The turn was the .

Murnick nudged our tournament reporter. "Watch this."

The remaining players got in 6,500 apiece, then 10,000 after the hit the river. Murnick grabbed his cards and slammed onto the felt as hard as he could, screaming his head off.

A wired pair of queens won the sidepot, but Murnick won the main, tripling to over 40,000 chips.

We're not sure of all the details, but we do know that Tom Marchese lost the vast majority of his chips holding against only to have the board run out . That hand left Marchese nursing a short stack, but it appears his luck has ran out.

We can confirm that Marchese has been eliminated from the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

Tom Marchese

0

-18,000

In a four way pot, Jeff Lisandro fired out 2,000 on a flop, getting one caller from the hijack. Both players proceeded to check the turn and river, the hijack turning over the huge draw-missing-but-top-pair-making which won the pot.

Jeff Lisandro

42,000

-13,000

It's not been a good Day 1d for Todd Terry, as can clearly be ascertained from a browse through his Twitter feed.

It's possible things are about to take a turn for the better, though, as Terry has just found his first double-up. It began with a player to his right opening to 575, and Terry jammed his last 6,225 chips into the middle. His opponent tanked and called, and the two men were flipping for the pot.

Showdown
Terry:
Opponent:

When the dealer burned and turned, the appeared right in the window, but the full flop was much better for Terry. It came to give Terry a big lead with two to come, and the turn secured his double-up. The river was too little, too late for Mr. Opponent, and he's pushed Terry back into contention with 12,900 after that double-dip.

With approximately 3,400 chips in the pot, action was checked by one player to Patrick de Koster on the board. De Koster fired a bet of 2,150 and his opponent then check-raised to 4,300. De Koster began to tank and his opponent sat motionless with his two elbows on the table and hands cupped in front of his mouth, head slightly down with his eyes buried below the brim of his black baseball cap. The player sat like this for a minute or two while de Koster tanked, but then all of a sudden sat back in his chair and grabbed his drink to take a sip. As soon as the player did this, de Koster tossed in the call.

Upon de Koster making the call, the player simply mucked his hand. De Koster pushed his cards forward and wasn't about to show. Being a European player, oftentimes in events over there, the winning hand doesn't have to be shown. Here at the World Series of Poker, the winning hand must be shown in order for the winner to take the pot. De Koster was explained this by the dealer and some of the members at the table before rolling over the .

Patrick de Koster

37,000

7,000

Jeff Shulman, Rayan Nathan and JC Tran may be holding court over on table 298, but they're now all becoming very wary of TeamAPL's Shane Shalders, who's just cracked the 50K-chip mark in Amazon Blue.

We picked up the action after a raised pot between Shalders, the big blind and Shulman after the dealer had spread the flop of ; all three players checked their option before Shalders and the big blind checked again on the turn of the .

Shulman opened for 3,500 and Shalders called, then he led out for 6,500 into Shulman on the river of the . Shulman who was only playing about 18,000 behind, went into the tank for over three minutes before another player requested time.

The floor was called over and advised Shulman that he had one minute to act. After about 20 seconds, Shulman carefully checked his cards again and then let it go. Shalders flashed and raked in the pot.

Shane Shalders	54,200	8,400
Jeff Shulman	17,200	-3,800

Abe Mosseri was one of our early chip leaders as he nearly doubled his stack very early on in the day. Clearly that wasn't enough though because after losses in two big pots he has managed to go busto very soon after the start of the third level. This following hand is the one that crippled him.

An under the gun player raised to 600 and three players called including Mosseri. The button player then raised it up to 3,000 and the under the gun player and Mosseri called.

The flop came down and all three players checked. The turn came the under the gun player bet 3,700, Mosseri called, and the button folded.

The river came the and the under the gun player went all in for 11,450. Mosseri SNAP called and was disgusted when he saw the of his opponent for a rivered full house. Mosseri splashed the pot with his call, mucked his hand, and cursed under his breath for a while.

It must've been only one or two hands later, but when we went back on the floor, Mosseri's seat was empty and he has clearly hit the rail. A tough beat for him as he probably he was sitting pretty with that early double stack.

Abe Mosseri

0

0

John Juanda in a recent hand made it 800 from the cut off in a recent hand and managed to get a caller in the button. The dealer flattened out a flop and Juanda wasted no time putting out a bet of 1,225. The button called and both players witnessed a turn.

The fourth street slowed Juanda down and he checked. His opponent then jumped on this chance and made it 1800. After a mild tank session Juanda folded leaving his chip stack hovering around 25,000.

John Juanda

26,000

-5,600

One of the last two women standing in the 2009 Main Event was Nichoel Peppe, now known as Nichoel Jurgens, will not be making a run at that title this year. Jurgens was short stacked from the the previous level and survived the blinds, but two hands later the under the gun player opened for 700.

A middle position player called and Jurgens moved all in from the cutoff for 3,225. The UTG player folded and after a short tank the middle position player called.

Jurgens:
Opponent:

The board ran and her opponent made the flush on the turn ending Jurgens dream of a final table.

There had been at least one limper when Melanie Weisner raised to 1,150. A player behind her reraised to 3,600, and it folded back to Weisner who shoved all in over the top for about 12,000 total. Her opponent snap-called.

Weisner showed while her opponent tabled . The flop came , giving Weisner's opponent the nut flush. The fell on the turn, however, giving Weisner hopes for a saving full house. But the river was the and she is out before the midpoint of Level 3.

With about 5,000 in the pot and a flop of , a young player in middle position checked to grizzled veteran John Spadavecchia in the cutoff. Spadavecchia, who finished third in the 1994 Main Event, took the opportunity to bet 5,000, only to have his opponent move all in.

Spadavecchia only had 10,200 behind, so a call constituted all his chips. He thought long and hard before spiking them in the pot, as if he were ready and willing to gamble.

Showdown
Spadavecchia:
Opponent:

Spadavecchia was at risk and behind against his opponent's set; however, any ten or diamond would give him the lead. "Yessssss!" Spadavecchia exclaimed as he slammed his fist down on the table after seeing the hit the turn. A harmless river gave Spadavecchia the double, brining him up to 35,000.

Meanwhile, a short-stacked Jesse Martin has been eliminated from the tournament.

John Spadavecchia	35,000	3,000
Jesse Martin	0	-350

We just came on a humorous hand over at Steven Dannenmann's table. It was a four-way hand, including Dannenmann on the button. The hands were , , , and . The pot was just a few thousand.

The board? .

As the dealer went about the business of dividing the pot four ways, the players discussed the hand amid chuckles.

"Nice hand, everyone," said one of the four. "It's his chips we got," said Dannenmann with a grin, jerking a thumb toward the player in the small blind who'd folded prior to the flop. Indeed, the four were essentially splitting the 150 chips he'd contributed.

They continued, with one realizing that the player who'd closed the action on the river had actually failed to raise with the nuts. "He should get a penalty," he cracked, pointing to the culprit. "Yeah, I should've bet 10,000," came the reply.

"I would've had to think about that," said a smiling Dannenmann. He currently has about 38,000.