David Cairns won Table 8 after sending Brian England to the rail.
Eric Ladny emerged victorious in his heads-up battle with Greg Dyer to win Table 16.
Andrew Chen outlasted Marcel Bjerkmann, Jason Mercier, Adam Levy, David "Doc" Sands, and Chris Hunichen to win Table 6.
Scott Seiver was all in preflop with 
and up against the 
of Team PokerStars Pro (USA) Barry Greenstein. The board ran out 
and Greenstein advanced to Round 2.
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"Come on, Humberto!" we heard the shout from across the room. It was none other than Humberto himself, and his all in sent us scurrying over to his table. When we arrived, all three players were all in, actually, and it was Shyam Srinivasan with the biggest of the three stacks. The shorty, Andrew Seidman was all in for 11,900 with 
, Brenes was all in for 34,750 with 
, and Srinivasan was looking to get lucky with 
for the double knockout.
The board ran out 
, and Seidman finds his wheel to triple up. Brenes has to pay that debt, but he'll double for the 22,850 chips he had left, and that match is now nearly all square three-handed.
Jeff Madsen has closed out Dan O'Brien in a quick heads-up match. We missed the hand that sealed his demise, but O'Brien was kind enough to fill us in as he meandered through the room. "Nothing too special," he said. "I had king-ten and he had an ace."
Madsen will advance, and O'Brien is looking to move on as well. "I've gotta book a ticket outta here," he said as he walked toward the double doors.
Travis Carson collected four bounties on his way to victory over at Table 5 where he outlasted Adam Junglen, Adam Sherman, Zachary Gruneberg, Robert Romanello, and David Williams.
Meanwhile, Matt Waxman defeated Eric Wasserson in heads-up play to claim victory on Table 1.
Level: 8
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Gregory Merson was down to ten big blinds when he open-shoved with . George Lind III looked down at , and he made the call with a chance to end the match.
The 
flop was just what Lind was looking for, but the turn gave Merson a lot of outs to work with. He missed, though, and the 
river has given Lind the bounty and the $10,000 he's guaranteed for making it through this opening round.
Randal Flowers has now taken a significant lead in his three-handed battle with Yury Kerzhapkin and Chris Klodnicki.
On the last hand, we just caught the final bet on a board of 
. Flowers made a pot-sized bet of 25,600, and Chris Klodnicki tanked and called for about 40% of his stack. Flowers tabled 
for the full house. Klodnicki looked a bit frustrated as he dropped his cards into the muck and counted out the debt.
We couldn't hear what he told Flowers he held, but Flowers seemed to be on the same page. "I think you're getting too good a price to fold there. I'm definitely bluffing sometimes there."
Flowers - 90,000
Klodnicki - 42,000
Kerzhapkin - 18,000
Michael Binger was well under 20,000 chips at one stage in his heads-up match, but he has mounted quite the comeback. Our last check had him on the verge of closing out the match with a big chip lead.
Binger and his opponent Darren Kennedy got it all in preflop on a coin flip. Kennedy had the pair of , and he was looking to hold up to stay alive against Binger's 
. How about a sweat?
The flop came 
, and it was still essentially a race with two cards to come. From the rail, Nick Binger (who has already advanced through Round 1) came wandering over to sweat it out with his bro. When then 
hit the turn, the brothers looked at each other and said, "Too many outs," in unison. They chuckled, but they were correct in their foreshadowing.
The blank filled out the board, and Binger will have to keep battling. Kennedy is back up to 58,000 with that double up.
Jonathan Aguiar was all in for his last 30,000 or so with 
and up against the 
of Samuel Chartier. The flop came down 
to give Chariter the lead, one he would keep through the turn and river. Chartier took down Table 33 and will advance to Round 2.
Also advancing were Marton Czuczor on Table 13, William Pilossoph from Table 31, and Alex Wice, who defeated Ali Eslami over at Table 9.
