On a flop of , a player bet 1,300 only to have Randy Lew raise to 2,800. Lew's opponent called and the hit the turn.
It was checked to Lew who fired out another time for 3,700. Lew received a call and fifth street was the . Lew's opponent instantly moved all in and Lew went into the tank for about ninety seconds.
"Will you show me?" Lew asked. He received no response. Another minute passed before Lew finally tossed in a call. His opponent showed for top pair.
Lew tabled for top two and was able to reduce the field by one while increasing his stack to 57,000.
A monster hand developed right before the break that resulted in a monster 73,000 pot. With around 1,000 in the pot on a flop of , Dan Heimiller checked from the small blind and William Wellborne did the same from the big. Jacky Wong then bet 575 from middle position, Heimiller check-raised to 1,400, and Wellborne flatted.
Wang responded by three-betting to 6,575, Heimiller got out of the way, and once again Wellborne just called. When the appeared on the river, Wellborne checked and watch Wang, who had the bigger stack, move all in. Wellborne thought long and hard before eventually calling off his remaining 30,600.
Showdown
Wang
Wellborne
Wellborne was astonished and thrilled that he was ahead, while Wang was clearly disappointed with his position. With his flush draw no good, Wang needed to hit either a straight or one of his hole cards to win, but it was not meant to be as the peeled off on the river.
Wellborne clapped his hands together in celebration as he doubled to more than 70,000, while Wang dropped down to just 11,300.
Gus Hansen is another player that we haven't seen too much at this year's World Series of Poker, but the allure of the Main Event has proven too strong as Hansen has taken his seat following the second break of the day. The Danish pro did win the $25,300 One Drop Mega Satellite a few weeks ago, with that worth a handy $1,000,000 and he'll be looking for similar success in the Main Event.
Catching up with the hand on the final board of , an opponent slid out a bet of 3,100 with 21,000 behind into Andrew Moreno. Moreno put out a tall stack of chips to effectively put his opponent all in. After a couple of minutes in the tank, the player folded the face up. Moreno showed the for an ace-high flush draw that missed, but was the winner after Moreno's aggressive move on the river. He scooped in the pot and moved to roughly 56,000 in chips.