When we reached Table 40, Laurence Grondin had in front of her, and her opponent had . The board read , and the dealer was counting down Grondin's stack.

The final count was just short of 40,000, and Grondin doubled to nearly 80,000.

Daniel Negreanu opened to 2,700 from early position, three players called, and the flop fell . The blinds checked to Negreanu, who fired 5,200, and one player on his left called.

The turn was the , and Negreanu fired again. This time the bet was 8,600, and his opponent called.

The completed the board, and Negreanu emptied the chamber, tossing out 10,200. His opponent folded, and Negreanu mucked the winner.

Daniel Negreanu

345,000

15,000

Speaking of Karina Jett . . .

Karina Jett had a tough table draw for her second day of play in the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker Main Event.

With 17,000 in the pot and a board reading , Karina Jett led out for 6,200 from the big blind and received a call from Faraz Jaka on the button. When the peeled off on the river, Jett fired out 7,000 only to have Jaka respond with a raise to 27,500.

It proved too much for Jett, who jettisoned her cards to the muck.

Faraz Jaka	98,000	28,000
Karina Jett	93,000	-32,000

We didn't quite get how the action went, but we do know that on a board, JJ Liu managed to get all in and was at risk against an unknown opponent. Liu held while her opponent held for the a set. The on the river was no help to Liu and she was sent home just shy of Day 3.

JJ Liu

0

-55,000

We don't know the exact action, but we do know there was about 20,000 in the pot when the flop came down . Kaplan managed to get the rest of his 68,400 in on this flop with , and he was up against his opponents , Kaplan would need to dodge an ace or a four to secure the hand, and he did that, as the board completed and .

It's been a roller coaster day for Kaplan, and after that hand, he's back up to 157,000.

Gabe Kaplan

157,000

104,000

Matt Kirby raised to 2,600 from early position and was called by both the blinds. When the flop came down , it went check-check to Kirby, who bet 4,600. Both his opponents folded and the man from Minnesota took down the pot.

It wasn't much of a hand, but it served as a good excuse to tell you Kirby is up to 190,000, which is quite a bit more than the last time we checked in on him.

Matt Kirby

190,000

95,000

Action started with 2007 Main Event Champion Jerry Yang in the hijack, and he raised it up to 3,200. Action folded to the button, and he raised it up to 8,100. Yang tagged along, and the flop came down . Yang checked to his opponent, who fired out 8,800. Yang came back with a check raise to 24,000, and his opponent laid his hand down.

After that hand, Yang shot up to 142,000.

Jerry Yang

142,000

17,000

We saw the ESPN cameras filming over at Pius Heinz's table and made our way over to discover he was contemplating a decision after betting 7,000 on a board only to have his opponent raise to 20,000. There was about 20,000 already in the pot from previous action, so it was a fairly big hand.

Heinz thought as the cameras rolled, but ultimately he laid it down, which appeared to be a good choice as his opponent showed .

Pius Heinz

45,000

-15,000

It wasn't a good day for Australian Poker Pro Grant Levy. He came into today with 67,000 in chips, but he wasn't able to get anything going. We caught his last hand of the day, where he shoved his last 11,200 in preflop with . Unfortunately, he ran into another player's . The board ran down , and Levy was sent to the rail.

Grant Levy

0

-67,150

Mike "Timex" McDonald led out for 16,600 on a board of . His opponent moved all in for 59,400, then gave a little speech. We couldn't hear it clearly, but McDonald responded by saying, "You've been pretty patient."

McDonald screwed up his face, and tanked for the better part of two minutes. He eventually grabbed enough orange T5,000 chips to make the call, and committed them.

"Set of sixes?" McDonald asked, tabling .

His opponent sighed, then turned over two red eights. The completed the board, and the player was eliminated.

"I thought he had sixes," a player at the table announced after the hand.

"I too thought he had sixes," said another.

The entire table burst into laughter, but no one was happier than McDonald, who now has over 200,000 chips.

Mike McDonald

215,000

155,000

From middle position, Patrick Renkers opened with a raise to 2,500. Abe Mosseri called from the big blind and the flop came down . Mosseri checked and Renkers bet 2,200. Mosseri called. The turn card was the and Mosseri checked. Renkers bet 5,300 and Mosseri gave it up.

Patrick Renkers	203,000	43,000
Abe Mosseri	58,000	-28,000

Final Hand Details of WSOP Main Event

Year	Winner	Winning Hand	Prize	Entries	Runner Up	Losing Hand
1970	Johnny Moss	Unknown	Silver Cup	7	Winner by vote of peers	Unknown
1971	Johnny Moss	Unknown	$30,000	6	Puggy Pearson	Unknown
1972	Amarillo Slim Preston		$80,000	8	Puggy Pearson
1973	Puggy Pearson		$130,000	13	Johnny Moss
1974	Johnny Moss		$160,000	16	Crandall Addington
1975	Sailor Robert		$210,000	21	Bob Hooks
1976	Doyle Brunson		$220,000	22	Jesse Alto
1977	Doyle Brunson		$340,000	34	Gary Berland
1978	Bobby Baldwin		$210,000	42	Crandall Addington
1979	Hal Fowler		$270,000	54	Bobby Huff
1980	Stu Ungar		$385,000	73	Doyle Brunson
1981	Stu Ungar		$375,000	75	Perry Green
1982	Jack Strauss		$520,000	104	Dewey Tomko
1983	Tom McEvoy		$540,000	108	Rod Peate
1984	Jack Keller		$660,000	132	Byron Wolford
1985	Bill Smith		$700,000	140	T.J. Cloutier
1986	Berry Johnston		$570,000	141	Mike Harthcock
1987	Johnny Chan		$625,000	152	Frank Henderson
1988	Johnny Chan		$700,000	167	Erik Seidel
1989	Phil Hellmuth		$755,000	178	Johnny Chan
1990	Mansour Matloubi		$895,000	194	Hans "Tuna" Lund
1991	Brad Daugherty		$1,000,000	215	Don Holt
1992	Hamid Dastmalchi		$1,000,000	201	Tom Jacobs
1993	Jim Bechtel		$1,000,000	220	Glenn Cozen
1994	Russ Hamilton		$1,000,000	268	Hugh Vincent
1995	Dan Harrington		$1,000,000	273	Howard Goldfarb
1996	Huck Seed		$1,000,000	295	Bruce Van Horn
1997	Stu Ungar		$1,000,000	312	John Strzemp
1998	Scotty Nguyen		$1,000,000	350	Kevin McBride
1999	Noel Furlong		$1,000,000	393	Alan Goehring
2000	Chris Ferguson		$1,500,000	512	T.J. Cloutier
2001	Carlos Mortensen		$1,500,000	613	Dewey Tomko
2002	Robert Varkonyi		$2,000,000	631	Julian Gardner
2003	Chris Moneymaker		$2,500,000	839	Sam Farha
2004	Greg Raymer		$5,000,000	2,576	David Williams
2005	Joe Hachem		$7,500,000	5,619	Steve Dannenmann
2006	Jamie Gold		$12,000,000	8,773	Paul Wasicka
2007	Jerry Yang		$8,250,000	6,358	Tuan Lam
2008	Peter Eastgate		$9,152,416	6,844	Ivan Demidov
2009	Joe Cada		$8,547,044	6,494	Darvin Moon
2010	Jonathan Duhamel		$8,944,310	7,319	John Racener
2011	Pius Heinz		$8,715,638	6,865	Martin Stazko

*Courtesy of the WSOP Media Guide.

From under the gun, a player raised to 2,500. David "ODB" Baker reraised to 5,300 from the cutoff seat and the original raiser called to see the flop. The first player checked and Baker bet 4,200. His opponent check-raised to 10,000 and then Baker moved all in for a little over 40,000. His opponent folded and Baker won the pot.

We caught up with the action on a board that read . There was already about 35,000 in the middle, when Margets checked to her lone opponent. He fired out 13,300, and after about a minute in the tank, Margets moved all in for alittle under 40,000 total. Her opponent immediately folded, and Margets showed for ace high. She cracked a smile after tabling her hand, and Ali Eslami simply commented "big pot".

After that hand, Margets is up to 88,000.

Leo Margets

88,000

-7,000

Just before break, Peter Eastgate and an opponent were heads up with the board reading Eastgate's opponent led for 4,300, Eastgate raised to 11,100, and the player called.

The turn was the , and the player led out again. Eastgate moved all in for 35,000, and his opponent called.

Original Raiser
Eastgate

The completed the board, giving Eastgate a full house for kicks and giggles, and the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event champion doubled to 94,000 chips.

Peter Eastgate

94,000

44,000

The flop read and Eric Baldwin was heads up in middle position against an unknown opponent in the small blind. The small blind was first to act and he patted the felt for a check. Baldwin on the other hand bet, and made it 3,400. The small blind then raised and made it 7,500. Baldwin sat completely still and thought for a good 30 seconds before making the call.

The on the turn saw the little blind tank for a little bit then check. Action then moved to the again motionless Baldwin and after another 30 seconds or so he grabbed a handful of chips and neatly placed a bet of 11,000. A minute or two went by of the small blind thinking before he eventually threw his cards away.

Eric Baldwin

142,000

9,000

The roller coaster that is Fara Jaka has continued into the night, with the recent PCA Main Event third-place finisher seeing his stack reach lows of around the starting stack, to the high of almost 200,000. Right now, it is somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.

We recently caught a hand that began when the action was folded to Jaka on the button. He raised it up to 2,400 and the the big player made the call. When the dealer flipped over a flop, Jaka's oppenent checked and Jaka bet 3,800. A call would see a turn hit the felt and both players check. It was then on to the river, with Jaka's opponent again checking. This time Jaka bet 20,000 and with a fold from his opponent, Jaka raked in the nice little pot.

Faraz Jaka

92,000

22,000

The Orange Section just has a handful of tables left but that didn't stop us from grabbing some counts.

Taylor Paur	390,000	-20,000
Joseph Rahme	250,000	10,000
Niall Farrell	230,000	0
Isaac Baron	112,000	12,000
Mike Wolf	75,800	5,800
Nachman Berlin	69,000
Filippo Candio	62,000	2,000
La Sengphet	30,000	-45,000

The cards are back in the air, and the remaining players are just 120 minutes away from Day 3!