Day One Done and Dusted!

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!