We've reached the end of play here for Day 1 of Event No. 42, the $2,500 Mixed Game event. According to the big board, our starting field of 412 players has been whittled down to 154. The list of players with big stacks as play concludes tonight include Jon Turner, Nick Frangos, Andy Black, Steve Billirakis, Sorel Mizzi, and J.C. Tran.
Chip counts for all remaining players will be posted overnight. Play resumes tomorrow at 2 p.m. Vegas time.
Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler just lost a big pot versus Jonathan "Fatal Error" Aguiar in one of the last hands of the night. Aguiar was all in preflop. Once Kessler called him, Aguiar said "Please have kings." He got his wish, as Kessler indeed had K-K.
When Aguiar showed his hand -- A-3 -- Kessler had a comment as well: "Oh no."
The flop changed nothing, but the turn brought a trey, and the river another trey, and Aguiar survived. Kessler gets knocked back to 7,000 right before night's end.
The tournament clock has been stopped with ten minutes remaining, a card was drawn, and it was determined just three more hands will be played tonight.
The button open-raised, then Sorel Mizzi, who finished runner-up after that wild last hand in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event (No. 35) a couple of nights ago, reraised pot to 2,700 from the small blind. The big blind folded, and the button called.
The flop came , Mizzi bet 2,000, and the button folded. "Hearts?" he asked. Mizzi shook his head no. He's up to 31,000.
As we move through the last level of the night, here are a few recently-checked chip stacks (more coming):
Nick Frangos -- 45,000
Jeffrey Lisandro -- 32,000
Robert Williamson III -- 23,000
Marco Johnson -- 23,000
Andy Black -- 22,000
Todd Brunson -- 21,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 20,000
Young Phan -- 18,000
Allie Prescott -- 17,000
Michael Mizrachi -- 16,000
Allen Kessler -- 15,000
Bryan Devonshire -- 13,000
Jason Potter -- 12,000
Jimmy Fricke -- 12,000
John Hennigan -- 11,000
Amnon Filippi -- 10,000
Steven Wong -- 5,500
David Chiu -- 5,000
Jason Somerville -- 5,000
Jeffrey Lisandro's table just moved from the Stud/8 round into no-limit hold'em, prompting several players to remark that they were glad to be done trying to outwit Lisandro at Stud/8 for awhile.
Lisandro, of course, just this week won a bracelet in the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better event, a point that was clarified for the benefit of Robert Williamson III.
"Oh, so that's why," said Williamson, finally getting why everyone was so impatient to get out of the Stud/8 round.
"What would you prefer, we play stud?" quipped Lisandro, the game in which he won his other two WSOP bracelets. Lisandro has also made WSOP final tables in H.O.R.S.E., Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 (the NL single-draw variety), and finished 17th in the 2006 WSOP Main Event, so there really isn't much place to hide when you're at his table.
Lisandro is doing well in the other six games today, too, having built his stack up to 28,000.