With the board already reading , the player in the hijack checked the action to Kevin Saul in the cutoff who bet 1,850. The hijack tanked for a bit before deciding to call.
Saul instantly mucked his cards and the hijack showed the for jacks and sevens and took the pot.
After the hand Saul posted on his Twitter account, "God forbid I actually take advantage of the best 5k table anyone's ever been at, tried to bluff the 1 good player, he called w 3rd pair."
The big number on the board has ticked all the way up to 621 players already, and the staff is scrambling to set up tables as fast as they're being filled.
At the start of the day, 600 seemed like a pretty good line, but the way things are going right now, 700 players looks like a pretty safe bet.
We've got a bunch of notable French people French actress Alice Taglioni is with us in our field today, and we're not complaining one bit about that. Taglioni is best known for her 2006 award-winning work in The Valet, and she also played a small role in the latest remake of The Pink Panther. And who could forget Grande école and Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités..., both from 2004!
In any event, we stumbled on Taglioni as she was involved in a multi-way pot.
The flop was out on board when we walked up to see Taglioni betting 250. Three opponents folded, but Sam Stein flatted in position. Taglioni bet another 250 on the turn, and Stein called again to see the fill out the board. Taglioni bet 500 now, and Stein flicked out two yellow chips for a raise. It sounded like he may have announced, "Fifteen hundred," but we can't be sure. Either way, it was too much for Taglioni to call. She mucked, and she's about half of her first 5,000-chip bullet.
Phil Laak had gotten his stack to 11,300 with two rebuy lammers before the following hand occurred:
From early position, an opponent opened with a raise to 175, Phil Laak flatted from the button and Mike Leah made the call from the big blind. The flop was and the action was checked to Laak. He bet 200 and both players called.
The turn was the and for a second time the action was checked to Laak. This time he decided to get a little more aggressive and fired 1,475. Leah got out of the way but the other player stuck around. The last card was the prompting both players to check. Laak was unable to beat the of his opponent and lost the hand.
We've started to fill the "Chip Counts" tab in with a list of familiar faces, but we'll give you some highlights here too.
We spotted Rene Angelil over in the Black section, sitting at a table full of unknowns. Angelil is the husband and manager of pop singer Celine Dion, though from the lack of table talk, it's quite possible nobody at his table recognizes him, either.
We also have a smattering of 2011 bracelet winners in the house today. Jason Somerville was the first one we spotted, and we've also seen Sam Stein, Sean Getzwiller, Andrew Badecker, Amir Lehavot, and Allen Bari in the house this morning.
World Champs? We've got at least one. Jonathan Duhamel is here, and actually, most of last year's November Nine are as well. Jason Senti, Filippo Candio, Joseph Cheong, and Matt Jarvis (who also won a bracelet this year) are all playing in this event, and we wouldn't be surprised to see Michael Mizrachi make an appearance a little later on.
Some eyebrow-raising table matchups include Kathy Liebert/Adam Geyer/David Baker, Allen Kessler/Jason Somerville, and a European reunion table featuring Dag Palovic (Slovakia) and Ludovic Lacay (France).
We've done a quick walk through the black section and found all of these players at their seats.
PokerStars Team Pros Jude Ainsworth, Gualter Salles, Jonathan Duhamel, Humberto Brenes, and Vanessa Selbst along with Barry Shulman, David "ODB" Baker, Adam Levy, Kathy Liebert, David Sands, Dwyte Pilgrim, Dan Shak, Shane Schleger, Alan Kessler, Jason Somerville, Rene Angelil, Shannon Shorr, Isaac Haxton, Erica Schoenberg, David Pham, Terrence Chan, Ted Lawson, Kevin Saul, Peter Feldman, Chad Batista, and Dave Ulliott.
Usually you have to play three days (and sometimes four) in order to reach Heads Up play. However, Andy Black and Event #34 winner Mark Schmid, have been playing Heads Up for fifteen minutes. While most tables have filled in at least seven or eight of their seats, Black and Schmid are still alone.
In one hand, Black was first to act and folded. Schmid was in the cutoff and the dealer required him to make a raise before he could ship him the blinds. He threw out some chips and pot went his way. So far it has been an interesting dynamic as the two men are acting quickly so that they can get in as many hands as possible before seats are filled.
, the player in the hijack checked the action to Kevin Saul in the cutoff who bet 1,850. The hijack tanked for a bit before deciding to call.
for jacks and sevens and took the pot.
turn, and Stein called again to see the 
fill out the board. Taglioni bet 500 now, and Stein flicked out two yellow chips for a raise. It sounded like he may have announced, "Fifteen hundred," but we can't be sure. Either way, it was too much for Taglioni to call. She mucked, and she's about half of her first 5,000-chip bullet.
and the action was checked to Laak. He bet 200 and both players called.
and for a second time the action was checked to Laak. This time he decided to get a little more aggressive and fired 1,475. Leah got out of the way but the other player stuck around. The last card was the 
prompting both players to check. Laak was unable to beat the 
of his opponent and lost the hand.