Several players have been chipping up, and chipping down. Bruce Buffer has also joined the field here in flight 1b. "You should've seen the beat I just took," Buffer said. "Usual aces cracked on the river for a 110,000 pot."
Just before the break we caught David Tuchman winning another big pot. After some preflop action, Tuchman and two others were in the pot heading to the flop which fell . The player in the small blind checked and Tuchman bet 1,350 and got one caller from the hijack.
The fell on the turn and this time Tuchman bet 3,125, which his opponent quickly called.
After the fell on the river Tuchman fired out a huge bet of 11,125. And after a long tank and a pained fold from his opponent, Tuchman raked in the pot.
"I had two pair," his opponent said after the flop. "You have my f***ing number."
After the hand Tuchman moved up to almost 65,000 in chips.
Now that Day 1a is all wrapped up, some of the players who busted out of there have come over to Day 1b. Here's a list of those players, along with a couple others that slipped through the cracks
Allan Le built a huge stack on Day 1 of the Harrah's Rincon Main Event, only to lose it on a giant flip when his queens were chased down by his opponent's ace king. Well he's back at it here today, and so far, he's built his stack up to 92,000. This is good enough to be one of the bigger stacks in Day 1a, and over here at 1b, it is good enough for the chip lead here in Level 7.
After a hot start, David Tuchman is falling back to earth. In one of the latest hands we saw, a player limped into the pot prompting Tuchman to raise to 1,300. The player on the button called, as well as the original limper.
The flop fell and the limper checked. From there, Tuchman bet 2,800 and the button folded. Then the limper announced a raise, throwing out a chip to call, and announcing that he was all in for 14,450.
It didn't take Tuchman long to call and the cards were on their backs.
Tuchman:
Limper:
The turn was a meaningless , as was the river, and they did not give Tuchman any of his outs. He dropped to just over 32,000 after the hand.
We didn't catch the hand as it happened, but the always nice Eric Baldwin was kind enough to give us a brief breakdown of how John "The Razor" Phan was eliminated. Phan was shortstacked, and shoved his last 2,500 with . Unfortunately, it was not able to hold up against the of his opponent. Phan was eliminated, but will have the option to come back for Day 2 tomorrow, as he did not enter into Day 1a.