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Official Day 1 Chip Counts
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1
Event Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$2,829,600
Total Entries
3,144
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 3,144
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Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1 Completed
Level 10
: 400/800, 100 ante
The Rio was once again a packed house for Day 1 of Event #34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em. The field started with 3,144 players but only 323 remain after ten levels of play and we just barely made the money on the last hand of the night. The chip leader appears to be Christopher 'd0r1t0s' McClung from Montreal, Canada with 114,100 in chips.
Some other big stacks near the top of the leaderboard going into day 2 are Luke Davies (109,300), Nick Petrangelo (95,000), Lee Satterwhite (84,400) and Karoon Monfared (84,200). Notables that survived the day include Team PokerStars Pro Gualter Salles (Brazil), Lars Bonding, Dwyte Pilgrim, Matt Affleck, Barry Shulman and Mike Leah.
A few players that were unfortunately eliminated throughout the day were Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier (USA), Randy Lew (Online), Humberto Brenes (Costa Rica), Liv Boeree (United Kingdom) and David Williams (USA), as well as Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Gavin Smith, Bruce Buffer, Amarillo Slim and Kathy Liebert.
While it’s doubtful that we will make it to the final table tomorrow, the field should be whittled down to a only a few tables by the end of the day. Check back in with PokerNews at 2:30 p.m. PST where play will resume in the Amazon room. Hope to see you there.
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Level 10
: 400/800, 100 ante
The dealers were told to stop dealing after their hand was up. Once the player count was tallied, it was announced that everyone left was in the money!
A player moved all in from late position and the action folded around to Lars Bonding in the big blind who snap called after looking at his cards.
Bonding: 
Opponent: 
The board fell 
and Bonding was able to scoop the pot and bring the field one person closer to the money.
Level 10
: 400/800, 100 ante
It was just announced that there will be six more hands dealt at each table before play is done for the day.
With Bonding raising under the gun a short stack in late position moved all in for about 7,000. When the action got back to Bonding he took his time before eventually calling with 
. His opponent only had 
but he had the lead going to the flop.
Things looked good for the short stack because the cards came 
but the river gave the pot to Bonding.
Level 10
: 400/800, 100 ante
We caught up with the action as the chips were being pushed and the cards being cleared, but from what we can gather a player moved all in holding 
. The very next player moved all in as well, holding 
. Barry Shulman was next in line to shove, holding 
.
The flop and turn ran out with three diamonds, culminating with the fall of a 
on the river. Shulman was able to triple up with his nut flush, as he was the shortest stack involved in the action. No players were eliminated this hand, but Shulman managed to build his stack to about 26,500.
Dwyte Pilgrim raised to 2,000 in the cutoff and David Peters moved all in for 11,500 on the button. It was folded back to Pilgrim who laid his hand down as Peters picked up some chips.
We found Joshua Schoonover making it 2,400 preflop. Action folded around to the Big Blind who moved all in for 12,000. Schoonover made the call and flipped over . It was off to the races as his opponent held .
The cards came out for a straight and a decent amount of chips to boot.
