Fortunately for the players in the $1K No-Limit Hold’em with Rebuy WSOP event, they just had a 20-minute break to race off the green 25 chips at their tables and cool off from the stiff competition. Prior to the break, however, several showdowns resulted in recent eliminations and equally dramatic chipstack increases.
As PocketFives reported [...]

On a board reading J825 Faraz “The Toilet-0″ Jaka (pictured at left) bet out 5.5K into an already large pot and Thomas Wahlroos thought for some time before moving all-in for less than 10K total.  Jaka almost beat Wahlroos into the pot and turned over 24 while Wahlroos held pocket tens.  The 9 gave Jaka [...]

Tristan “Crea8ive” Wade, Faraz “The-Toilet 0″ Jaka, Ben “bfineman” Fineman and Jon Wein — all P5ers — helped form the busiest (and loudest) table in the past hour of the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event. The four were seated next to each other (with Phillip Yeh in between) and had no problem taking whacks at one [...]