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Day 5 of the WSOP Main Event is currently at the dinner break.

Yesterday, we brought you brief profiles of a couple players to watch, and today we are going to bring you two more.

Going into the dinner beak, Pius Heinz leads with 4.04 million, followed by David Bach with 3.93 million.

Both players have been hanging around the top of the leaderboard for a couple of days now and seem to be making their bid for the November Nine.

Pius Heinz leads all players at the dinner break on Day 5 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

Heinz Quietly Making His Bid For November Nine

Pius Heinz has been quietly building his stack over the last couple of days.

On Day 4, he started the day with 395k and moved up to 1.88 million in chips by the end of the day. During Day 5, he chipped up to 3.77 million after knocking Jon Friedberg out.

Friedberg moved all-in at the turn with A-Q on a Q-8-6-5 board and ran into a set of queens from Heinz. From that point, Heinz chipped up to 4.04 million.

The German native made the final table of Event #48 earlier in the WSOP where he finished 7th for $83,286.

Of course, if Heinz continues to stay at the top of the leaderboard, he will not be able to silently slip by players as he tries to make his bid for the November Nine.

Bach is Back in the Spotlight and Looking for His Second Bracelet

Heading into Day 3 play, David Bach was sitting with a mere 133k in chips.

From that point, he chipped up through the day to finish with 1.14 million. Part of his chipping up included doubling-up twice through Vanessa Rousso.

The second double-up was among the more brutal when Bach moved all-in with an open-ended straight draw against a flopped set for Rousso.

Bach hit his straight on the turn and Rousso failed to fill up.

The third time the two squared off resulted in Rousso’s elimination. She flopped a pair of jacks with Q-J and moved all-in on the turn, but Bach had pocket aces and the aces held to eliminate Rousso.

After Rousso’s elimination, Bach moved up to 1.23 million and finished the day at 1.14 million.

On Day 5, Bach used a series of big hands to move up 3.935 million in chips. He knocked out Scott Augustine when Augustine ran tens into queens.

Later, he took out Matt Goldman when Goldman shoved with As-Ks into Bach’s threes and the threes held.

Finally, he was in a three way pot that saw both Seth Davies and Mazin Khoury all-in. Bach had aces against queens for Davies and tens for Khoury.

Davies would river a set of queens, but since he was the short stack of the three, Bach still profited from the hand and was up to 3.7 million.

He took a few more pots to go into dinner break with 3.93 million.

Bach won the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship in 2009 and really hadn’t done much of anything since until this year’s WSOP.

He cashed three times prior to the Main Event, including final tables in both the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo and the $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Event.

He finished runner-up in the Triple Draw Event.

Bach has lifetime earnings of 2.9 million and would near quadruple his lifetime earnings should he take down the Main Event.

Check back in tomorrow as we bring you two more players to watch as we are now just three days away from finding out the 2011 WSOP November Nine.

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