John Monnette raised after the opponent completed only for David Benyamine to reraise. The opponent cold called and Monnette went all in. Benyamine raised again and the opponent called which closed the action for the street. On fourth, all it took was one bet from Benamine to get the opponent to fold. Monnette expressed his displeasure at the opponent having costed him kings up by calling on third and now Monnette would need some help against the trips of Benyamine. We missed the rest of his cards but Monnette bricked out and was eliminated while Benyamine caught up with some of the bigger stacks at the table.
By this point of the day we would usually have a last "x" amount of hands, however there are no blinds in stud, only antes so there is no need according to the floor.
We caught up with the action on fifth where Sebastien Sabic bet and got raised by Tom Dwan. Sabic called and then check-called sixth. On seventh, Sabic check-raised Dwan who called only to be shown aces up which quite possibly made Sabic our Day 1 chip leader while Dwan’s stack struggles.
Play has now finished for the day and Frenchman Sebastien Sabic is the chip leader with 129,900 ahead of the Russian Alexander Kostritsyn who has 105,600. We started the day with 126 players (a decrease over around 16% on last year) and lost around a quarter of the field by the end of the day, the remainder coming back tomorrow including last year's winner Men Nguyen who finished the day with 65,400.
Players we lost today include the 2009 winner Freddie Ellis, Huck Seed, Michael Mizrachi, David Singer, Eugene Katchalov and PokerStars Team Pro Alex Kravchenko. Still in though are a whole host of names including Jennifer Harman, Scott Clements, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel as well as Team PokerStars Pros Pat Pezzin, Chad Brown, Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Ville Wahlbeck and Daniel Negreanu.
The restart will be at 3pm tomorrow, there's a long way to go and we'll be expecting to make full use of tomorrow's ten levels.
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