Michael Phelps sat down late in this event, but he has quickly doubled his stack and then some. We just caught Phelps taking down a small pot to up his stack to over 8,000.
We caught up with the action on the flop, which read . Phelps's lone opponent bet out 500, and Phelps tossed out a chip for the call. Both players checked when the hit the turn, and the same occurred when the river came the . Phelps announced "one pair" and tabled . His opponent mucked, and Phelps took down the small pot.
Some of the new additions to the room include Victor Ramdin who just busted from Event #2: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Eight Handed). According to Ramdin he lost a "flip" against another player with against .
"That's the beautiful thing about the World Series," he told us. "You can bust out of one tournament and then hop right in another one in another room." Ramdin is off to a good start and has already collected some chips on top of his starting stack.
We also saw Bruce Buffer who has started to build up a healthy stack. Neither of them are even close to Ryan Lenaghan though who has more than double each of their chip stacks.
Almost as soon as we clicked publish on the Scott Seiver chip leader post, we saw Amanda Baker stacking up a ton of newly earned chips. Once she finished it all, we saw that she was sitting on a staggering 50,000, easily the biggest stack in the room. Baker has over $300,000 in live earnings, so her with chips is a site for sore eyes for the rest of the field.
When we saw Scott Seiver just before the break, he was sitting on a healthy stack of 12,000. Well he's tripled that stack since and is now by our counts the early chip leader in the room, sitting on 36,000. Here's what he tweeted just a few minutes ago.
We literally got to the table as Jonathan Little and another opponent were tabling their cards in an all in preflop situation. Little got his last 3,200 in holding , but unfortunately for him, his opponent had him dominated with . The board bricked out , and Little made his way to the exits.