After being all-in for her last 30,000 or so not too long ago, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has gone on a monumental tear-up around her $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em table - and shot above 300,000! It all happened in four quick hands just before the dinner break, which will have made the refreshments go down a treat.

Rousso takes up the story: "First I had [ad][qd] and limped under the gun for 5,000 and Bryn Kenney called, then Alex 'AJKHooiser1' Kamberis potted it, I called and my hand held - he had A-10," Rousso explained.

Vanessa Rousso

"A few hands later I'm in the big blind and called a Bryn Kenney raise of 12,500. There was a ten-high flop and he bet, I re-raised and he folded.

"When the button came round I raised with [ac][6c] and got one call. We checked it all the way down and my ace-high was good. Then my raise of 15,000 was re-raised to 26,500 and I called. The flop was K-10 and a small card, I make a big bet and get a fold!"

Phew! That's how you go from short-stack to seventh in chips in just a few of orbits of the table, folks.

There are still 44 players left in this event, with only the top 27 getting paid. Team PokerStars Pro ElkY will find it a struggle after bluffing off a large chunk of his remaining chips. He bet out with his missed flushed draw on a paired board, and was called by Justin Young with A-6 for second pair. ElkY is now down to just 10,000.

Bill Chen

Still going well is Team PokerStars Mexico Pro JC Alvarado on 220,000, Germany's Florian Langmann on 110,000 and Friend of PokerStars Bill Chen with 115,000.

STOP PRESS ElkY found Q-Q just after dinner and got his last 10,000 in the middle, but was up against the A-K of Bobby Firestone. An ace on the flop, and the Frenchman is outta here.

Vanessa Rousso sits silently in the small blind. Wearing dark glasses, she doesn't move a muscle. It's folded around to her and she counts out 7,200 and pushes them out to the middle in place of her 1,200 blind. It amounts to a 4,800 raise of Kathy Liebert's big blind.

Unlike the Team PokerStars Pro, Liebert has been animated all afternoon, chatting away to the table as if the matter at hand, day two of the WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em World Championship, was an irrelevance. Now she, too, fell silent as she surveyed Rousso's raise, then looked at her two cards. She liked them, counting out chips ready for a re-raise not a call.

Vanessa Rousso and Kathy Liebert

She settled on re-raising by another 12,400, forcing Rousso, who before the hand was up to over 100,000, into the tank. "How many more do you have?" she asked Liebert, who then studiously counted them out... it was about 40,000.

Rousso didn't like that. "I may fold. Will you show me if I fold?" No response. "Will you show me?" she asked again as she motioned to fold. This time Liebert nodded, and as Rousso announced fold, Liebert turned over the ladies, [qh][qc]. Rousso nodded in approvement - of Liebert's hand and her own fold, she showed [ad][8s].

So a relatively narrow escape in a battle of the blinds. A little earlier, Rousso had raked in a nice pot when she and three others called a 6,000 bet pre-flop. The dealer put out [5h][5s][4c] and the original raiser put out a 13,000 continuation bet. It's folded around to Rousso who doesn't take long to decide on a re-raise - a healthy pile of orange 5,000 chips are tossed into the middle. It's good enough to scoop the lot.

There are 69 of the 275 starters still left in the event, and as well as Rousso we have four other PokerStars players in ElkY, Florian Langmann, JC Alvarado and Bill Chen chasing the 27 cash spots. The winner takes home $633,335.

ElkY

By a quirk of fate three of these players have similar stacks of around 70,000, as did ElkY until he just won a big pot to take him up to 140,000.

On a board of [4d][qh][8h][jd][2d], and with 40,000 or so already in the pot, ElkY tried his luck with another bet of 30,000 - called by Jeremy Rafalowicz, who was somewhat disappointed to see the Frenchman turn over [kd][6d] for the flush.

We're into the final day of the WSOP $1,500 HORSE event - and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso is still going strong with 23 runners left.

She has 131,000 chips, nestled half-way through the pack chasing chip leader Fabrice Soulier with 351,000.

Rousso is enoying a fanstastic year, and this is already her third cash at the WSOP. Each of today's survivors are guaranteed $5,906, but that figure rises dramatically as the first place and $247,033 payout approaches.

Vanessa Rousso

Should she make the final table, it would make for an excellent day for PokerStars, which already has John Duthie in the final of the $10K World Heads-up Championship.

Good luck today, Vanessa!

While we wait for the final two matches in the $10,000 World Heads-up Championship to begin, which sees Team PokerStars Pro John Duthie take on Nathan Doudney, we had a quick peek at day two of the $1,500 HORSE.

There we found Vanessa Rousso near the top of the leaderboard on 59,000. With just 96 of the 770 runners left, they're closing in fast on the 72 cash positions.

Vanessa Rousso

Team Pro Rousso is having a great year and a good result in HORSE will further enhance her blossoming reputation, not that it needs much of a push, as our recent report on ther EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 High Roller victory confirms.