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

Former IRL and CART driver Gualter Salles was down to just one single, solitary, lonely yellow T1,000 chip moments ago. He won the first pot to move back into five figures, and the second double up got him back to 32,000 on the next hand.

On the third of his short-stacked hands, Salles found     and calls from two players. Jesse Steinberg and Robert Miller checked it down the whole way with     and     respectively as the dealer did his work. The board was in Salles' neighborhood as it came out          . Suddenly, he has tripled back up to 105,000.

On the very next hand, Steinberg raised under the gun, and Salles shipped it in there again. He turned over the opposite hand this time,    ! Steinberg had    , and he was racing to try and finally rid the table of the pesky Salles.

But he could not. The board ran          , and that's yet another double up for Salles. After being crippled down to a single chip, he has won the last four pots to rebound his stack all the way back to 225,000! That's 43,000 more than he started the day with, if you're scoring at home.

Incredible.

Robert Mizrachi raised to 14,000, and Aaron Kaiser called from the cutoff. Jason Mercier joined them in the small blind to see a   flop. The turn was the  , and Mercier bet out 31,000. Mizrachi quickly folded, but Kaiser slowly made the call. The   river double-paired the board, and Mercier put out an 88,000 bet. "Call," Kaiser said instantly. "I have ace-high," Mercier said as Kaiser turned over   for the second nut flush. He asked if Mercier's ace was the ace of spades, and Jason said it was. He slipped to 410,000 while Kaiser moved up to 415,000.

Rodney Sherry opened for 14,000 from under-the-gun and Johnny Lodden, to his immediate left, three-bet to 41,000. The rest of the table folded and Sherry made the call.

Both players checked the     flop. The turn came the   and Sherry checked to Lodden, who bet 64,000. Sherry called and they went to the river, which fell the  . Sherry checked, Lodden bet 125,000 and Sherry moved all-in. Lodden slipped into tank mode and after a few moments, made the fold, prompting his tablemate, Will "The Thrill" Failla, to mutter something we'd rather not repeat, insinuating it was obvious Sherry had ace-king.

Sherry did indeed flash ace-king, putting an end to any further shenanigans. He's up to 875,000 while Lodden fell to 560,000.

There was at least 250,000 in the pot when we walked up to a flop of      . Michael Skender was first to speak, and he pushed out a bet of 75,000. His heads-up opponent was big stack Garrett Adelstein, and he proceeded to raise it up to 175,000 straight. Skender moved all in for something like 700,000 over the top, and that was too expensive for Adelstein to call.

Skender showed his airball    , letting out a big, "That's right baby! Ace-high!" After just another moment, he continued the taunting with a nice, "Don't f*** with me!"

Adelstein - 1.3 million

Skender - 1.2 million

Vitaly Lunkin was just now all in with his tournament life at risk. With the board showing      and about 70,000 in the middle, Theo Tran checked, and Lunkin pushed all in for his last 75,000 from the button. Tran thought a moment, then let his hand go.

Lunkin survives with 145,000, while Tran is currently sitting with 211,000.

Denis Pisarev opened to 15,000 from middle position, and Roger Anh called a couple seats over. Kevin Stani called from the small blind as well, and big blind C.K. Hua was also in the pot, all in for his last 3,000.

The flop came out      , and Pisarev continued out with a bet of 20,000. Anh called and Stani ducked out, and there were two live players to the   turn. This time, a bet of 40,000 was enough to fold Anh, and cue the showdown. Or half of it, at least. Pisarev showed    , and Hua simply mucked, wishing his table luck and heading out the door before the   river appeared.

On a flop of    , Isaac Krantz moved all-in and Jesper Hougaard made the call. Hougaard turned over pocket kings for an overpair while Krantz had an open-ended straight draw with   .

The   on the turn filled Krantz's straight and left Hougaard drawing dead. The river was the meaningless   and Krantz doubled his stack to 320,000 while Hougaard slipped to 757,000.

Joshua Weizer was recently broken to Red 375. He played a pot against Mark Dalimore that sparked quite a bit of table talk. Dalimore led out for 30,000on a flop of    . Weizer, in position, raised that bet to 115,000.

After about a minute of thought, Dalimore remarked that he was leaning towards believing Weizer. He said that he intended to fold but would open fold and asked Weizer to do the same.

"No chance," Weizer replied. "My image will be ruined."

Dalimore persisted and finally Weizer relented. "Fine, but if you're going to fold do it quickly." Dalimore then folded top pair,   . Weizer flashed    for bottom two pair as he collected the pot.

"Showing affects nothing," Dalimore told Weizer. "A good player can use that to his advantage and I believe you're a good player."

George Kalaitzis was just eliminated when his    went down to Alex Jacob   . The money all went in preflop and the board ran out      .

Jacob is up to about 180,000 in chips.

In a button-versus-big-blind raising war, Shawn Rice and Eric Buchman got it all in before the flop. Buchman had    , and he ran them right into Rice's    . When the chips were counted down, Rice had his man covered by just 2,000 tiny chips, so Buchman was at risk as the cards were pulled in.

Board:          .

That's no help to Buchman, and he has been eliminated. That's a double up for Rice, on the other hand, and he has climbed up to about 460,000 here in the early going.