Event #30: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Day 1 | 2010 World Series of Poker

06-17-2010 05:32 UTC-7

Official Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Markus Lehmann	135,200
Thupten Thondup	123,000
William Kakon	117,500
Carlos Mortensen	108,500
Neil Channing	107,700
Steve Gross	103,800
Christian Jeppsson	103,600
Dmitry Stelmak	95,200
Bahador Ahmadi	94,100
Bruce Liebowitz	91,000
Tyler Cornell	90,100
Stanley Wasserkrug	88,700
James Johnson	88,700
David Diaz	88,500
Richard Mask	88,400
Pedro Fernandez	86,100
James Guinther	84,800
Alexander Barlow	84,600
Jason Hallee	83,900
Pierre Neuville	80,000
Angela Jordison	79,300
Fatolla Shahen	78,800
Allen Stern	78,600
Joel Bullock	76,700
Anthony Pope	75,000

Event #30: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em

Day 1 Completed

06-17-2010 00:45 UTC-7

Day One Done and Dusted!

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After ten levels of play and over 2,000 eliminations we are done and dusted with day one of Event #30: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em!

2,394 players took to the felt today surpassing the number set last year in this subsequent event, and also bettering the prizepool and 581,851 first prize that is on offer for the remaining players.

Last years champion Eric 'basebaldy' Baldwin was an early casualty along with Kirk Morrison, Andrew Black, Gavin Griffin, Barry Shulman, Jonathan Aguiar, Nenad Medic and John Juanda. Crowd favorite's Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan and Hevad Khan also fell to the rail as unofficially 288 players remain.

Leading the charge into day two is Markus Lehman with an amassed 135,200 in chips, but is closely trailed by Carlos Mortensen (108,500), Neil Channing (107,700) and Steve Gross (103,800).

Still in contention are Matt Stout (74,800), Dan Kelly (54,500) and Nam Le (16,900) as tomorrow will see the field compacted to just nine all bidding for their chance of claiming the Event #30 gold bracelet.

Play will kick off at 2:30 pm PST tomorrow with PokerNews providing continuous live coverage of every rivered flush, turned straight and flopped set live from the 2010 World Series of Poker!

06-17-2010 00:29 UTC-7

Six It Will Be!

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The Tournament Director has announced that there will be just six more hands for the evening!

06-17-2010 00:27 UTC-7

Suharto Sent Packing By Sluzinski

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Jeff Sluzinski opened to 2,500 from early position only to have Darus Suharto move all in from the small blind for over 20,000.

Sluzinski made the call tabling his dominating {A-} {K-} against Suharto's {A-} {Q-} .

The board blanked out and Suharto hit the rail as Sluzinski climbed to 58,000 in chips.

Tags: Darus Suharto Jeff Sluzinski

06-17-2010 00:23 UTC-7

Carlos Oliveira Busto

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Carlos Oliveira opened the pot in middle position with a 2,200-chip raise and was called by the player on the button.

The flop ran out {5-Spades} {4-Clubs} {7-Spades} and Oliveira fired a 3,000-chip bet. The turn card was a {2-Spades} and both players checked. The river brought a {q-Spades} and Oliveira went all in.

His opponent tanked for five minutes, flipped a coin and eventually made the call. Oliveira mucked his hand as his opponent tabled {6-Diamonds} {6-Spades} .