Wednesday at the main event of the World Series of Poker

Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006 | 3:05 a.m.

DAY: 6 (Officially known as Day 2B)

BIG NEWS: Daniel Negreanu, the affable Canadian known as "Kid Poker," made a big move late Wednesday to amass 154,200 in chips. Moments earlier he had just 71,000. "I've got these guys set up," Negreanu said. "I just need the right situation and I'm going to bust like three of them." Apparently, his plan was working. The day's leader, Dmitri Nobles, had 317,000 in chips.

STUD OF THE DAY: Mike Savino, a 36-year-old accountant from New York, donned holographic eyeball shades in his first heads-up encounter with 2004 main event champ Greg Raymer, who himself is known to wear them in serious stare-downs. Savino ended up folding when Raymer didn't flinch and put the glasses away. "It wasn't as effective as I wanted it to be," he said.

BUSTED OUT: Raymer, Huck Seed, Adam Schoenfeld and "Machinegun" Patty Gallagher.

CELEBRITY UPDATE: Swimsuit model Joanna Krupa is still alive into her second day of play with more than 30,000 in chips. The cover girl of "GQ," "Maxim," "Playboy" and others said her looks didn't help her that much at the table. "I don't think they're looking at every person and getting distracted. I just think everybody is here to do their best," she said. Rene Angelil, manager and husband of Celine Dion, was knocked out.

POKER TALK: The nuts: The best hand, whatever that is given the five community cards. If one has an ace and five of hearts and the board shows a flop of three hearts, one holds the "nut flush." Of course, a straight flush, say king, queen, jack, ten and nine of hearts, is the real nuts, but that hand appears once in 55,000 Hold 'Em hands.

UP NEXT: There's a break Thursday. Friday, play resumes when the 561 finishers of a second round of play on Tuesday take on Wednesday's survivors. Payoffs starting at $14,597 will begin with the 873rd-place finisher. The winner will take home a top prize of $12 million.

HE SAID WHAT?: "I'm wearing these 8,000 players down." - Ted Forrest, a cash game specialist who won the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in March. His 56,000 in chips was 1,000 less than he started with Tuesday.