Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

Phil Ivey has the button. Action passes to the player on his right, Darvin Moon, who opens for 2.0 million. For the second time since the dinner break, Moon encounters no resistance.

Jeff Shulman has the button. Action passes to small blind Darvin Moon, who wins the pot by raising to 1.5 million and inducing a fold from big blind Phil Ivey.

Prior to re-starting play, Jeffrey Pollack acknowledged the 2009 inductee to the Poker Hall of Fame, Mike Sexton. He was joined on stage by several other members of the Hall of Fame: Jack Binion, Doyle Brunson, Dewey Tomko, Billy Baxter, T.J. Cloutier and Phil Hellmuth. Hellmuth was booed (jokingly) by the crowd when Pollack introduced him. Sexton kept his remarks mercifully brief. He wished all the remaining players good luck and then said, "Let's shuffle up and deal!" Of course, the players aren't back at the table yet and the HOFers are mugging for the press so it's going to take a few more minutes to make that happen.

Ylon Schwartz took some time to do an interview with WSOP Hostess Lacey Jones. Jones asked Schwartz his opinion on the final table and Schwartz drew comparison to a marathon when responding. "You're not going to run a marathon, stop in the 25th mile, then come back and run a sprint. Personally, I think [the delay] is retarded." he said.

Well, it's been an interesting afternoon. So far we've lost two players: James Akenhead in 9th place and Kevin Schaffel in 8th place. The remaining seven players were just sent on a two-hour dinner break. The Hall of Fame induction of Mike Sexton will occur at a special dinner to be held during the break. Play will resume at 9pm local time. The players will come back to the following stacks: Darvin Moon: 41,250,000 Phil Ivey: 14,900,000 Steve Begleiter: 38,100,000 Eric Buchman: 54,725,000 Joe Cada: 10,700,000 Antoine Saout: 28,725,000 Jeff Shulman: 7,175,000

Joe Cada has the button. Steve Begleiter raises to 1.25 million from middle position and wins the blinds and the antes.

Eric Buchman has the button. Jeff Shulman comes in with a raise to 1,500,000 under the gun, and nobody wants to tangle with him.

Phil Ivey has the button. Steve Begleiter comes in with a raise to 1,250,000 from the small blind, and Eric Buchman appears to be thinking tricky thoughts. Indeed, after a minute or so, he re-raises to 3,950,000 from the big. Begleiter doesn't waste much time putting in the call to see a flop. The dealer runs the first three board cards:      . Begleiter slowly checks, and Buchman isn't backing down. He makes it 3,200,000 to stay in, and Begs lets him have the pot. Buchman - 55,175,000 Begleiter - 37,200,000

Notice that it's NOT Darvin Moon atop the board. Eric Buchman - 50,975,000 Darvin Moon - 42,050,000 Steven Begleiter - 41,750,000 Antoine Saout - 25,225,000 Phil Ivey - 16,700,000 Joseph Cada - 11,750,000 Jeff Shulman - 7,125,000

Steve Begleiter opens with a raise to 1,250,000 under the gun. All the way around in the big blind, Phil Ivey makes the call, and the spectators applaud in anticipation of the forthcoming flop. It brings      , and Ivey checks. Begleiter follows up his preflop actions with a bet of 1,750,000. After some deliberation, Ivey calls. The turn is the  , and both men check. On the river, the   draws a leading bet from Ivey. He makes it 2,500,000 to Beglieter who sits motionless with his head resting on his hands. He finally loosens up his posture a little bit as he ponders the decision before him. He stares over at Ivey to try and pick something up, and that's like trying to read a book that's written in a foreign language. It's not clear whether or not he gleans any information from that staredown, but he eventually ends up sliding his cards back to the dealer, and the pot goes to Ivey. That pot moves the crowd favorite up to 16,700,000.