Corrie Wunstel took his time before calling a 3,600-chip river bet from Jason Koon with another player in the pot, some 9,500 in the middle and the board reading .
The third player folded and Koon quickly turned over only to find his trip kings were no good against Wunstel's .
Things appear to be going quite well for hedge fund manager turned poker high roller Dan Shak.
He's now on more than 70,000 and has to be running better than he did at the Seniors Championship the other day.
Shak just revealed to his table that he managed to call two all in players in front of him with aces against and . Things looked good until two queens fell on the flop.
We found Jonathan Little checking a board of to Taylor Paur, with a large pot having already developed between the two. Paur thought for about a minute before putting in a stack of chips large enough to put Little at risk. Little called off his stack of about 25,000, and Paur showed for a backdoor Broadway straight. The dealer turned over Little's cards, per tournament rules: for trips.
Noah Schwartz is out after getting into a raising war from the small blind with the player on the button and calling off the rest of his 8,500-chip short stack with .
Blair Hinkle lost a flip to the player on his right.
Jeremy Ausmus and Blair Hinkle got it all in preflop from the blinds with Ausmus at risk for 9,900. Ausmus' turned a pair of queens to ensure his survival against Hinkle's .
As John Juanda sat down on Humberto Brenes' table a discussion of the Costa Rican Shark's amazing start to the 2014 WSOP ensued.
Brenes already has six cashes in the first 12 events he's played and with dozens more still on the schedule, he his primed for a run at the record for most cashes in a single WSOP.
Konstantin Puchkov holds the record with 12 cashes recorded back in 2012.
But already half way there and with 78 cashes lifetime, including two bracelet wins and $2,293,719 in earnings, Humberto might be a favorite to get it done.
It didn't take long for late registrants Jason Mercier and Isaac Baron to find some action.
Mercier defended his big blind against a Baron open, then check called a 1,500-chip bet on the flop. The turn came the and both players checked. They also checked the river where Mercier showed .
"I can't beat you at basketball. I can't beat you at poker. I can't beat you anywhere," said Baron, perhaps explaining where these two were during the first few levels of play.
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only to find his trip kings were no good against Wunstel's 
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to Taylor Paur, with a large pot having already developed between the two. Paur thought for about a minute before putting in a stack of chips large enough to put Little at risk. Little called off his stack of about 25,000, and Paur showed 
for trips.
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turned a pair of queens to ensure his survival against Hinkle's 
flop. The turn came the 
river where Mercier showed 
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