Randy Lew is no longer with us. We weren't there to catch the action, but here is his explanation via Twitter.
nanonoko Randy LewBusted very huge pot. 3b AKs and he calls. Flop K97s and he raises my cbet and I shove into AA and it bricks off. Day off tomorrow #wsop9June 03 2012
There may be a bit of a controversy brewing in this very event as there have been murmurs that multiple people have been able to re-enter the event twice on the same day, when the rule clearly states that only players who busted the first Day 1 flight would be able to re-enter once and only on the second Day 1 flight. Here is how some of the story has played out on Twitter.
JasonMercier Jason MercierPretty sure will the thrill just got busted for playing the 1500 reentry for the 2nd time TODAY .. He was a few tables down from moorman....June 03 2012
JasonMercier Jason MercierGuess the thrill wasn't the only one... 11 people apparently played twice today... Wonder how many played twice yesterday and no one noticedJune 03 2012
Moorman1 Chris MoormanMade the antes for the first time this trip, only got 5500 tho. I will also confirm that I did out @WILLFAILLA for playing twice todayJune 03 2012
Moorman1 Chris MoormanI hope it was an honest mistake from him and that there is a big investigation into how this was allowed to happen with another 10 playersJune 03 2012
cslaubaugh Cody SlaubaughWow will the thrill w/a triple stack. Asks jeff Eiffel how long u can re-enter for. Turns out he's on his 2nd bullet of the day. Gonna getDQJune 03 2012
JonathanLittle Jonathan Little.@cslaubaugh that is crazy. Clearly the computer shouldn’t let people reenter if it isn’t allowed.June 03 2012
da_kyky Kyle CartwrightThese players who entered twice today all knew it was against wsop rules and should be punished for it. @WSOPJune 03 2012
According to Team PokerStars Online Pro Randy Lew's Twitter, he was recently able to double up through David Sands.
nanonoko Randy LewDoubled up sbvbb to 10500 chips vs doc sands. I had AQo and he had K8o...board ran out J87 Q 4..blinds 100/200/25a #wsop9June 03 2012
Lew has been sitting on a short stack all day, so this double up was most certainly a welcome sight. Lew, also known as "nanonoko" to the online poker world, is no stranger to dragging in chips. Lew made a name for himself by playing online and frequently multi-tables absurd amounts of tables at once. While Lew only has eight live cashes to his name, three of those came at last year's WSOP.
More recently, Lew struck gold when he took down the 2011 AAPT Macau Main Event for a total cash prize of $484,617. Lew entered the final table of that event as short stack and was able to best the field and climb to the top.
Now that Lew has some chips to work with, we are sure we will see him being more active throughout the day.
We hadn't been able to catch much action with Mike "Timex" McDonald toady and unfortunately won't be able to for the remainder of the afternoon, as his seat is now empty. Here is his personal explanation, from Twitter.
MikeMcDonald89 Mike McDonaldOut of the 1.5k, got coolered a few timesJune 03 2012
VanessaRousso Vanessa RoussoRode one of these to red rock this morning for a hike...great way to start the day! Now at WSOP playin $1500 nlh tourny http://t.co/EDUlyebqJune 03 2012
Vanessa Rousso has clearly been busy off the felt, but it is time to play some poker for the Team PokerStars Pro.
About fifteen minutes ago, we saw the following tweet from Tony Dunst:
Bond_18 Tony DunstRan it up to 6k winning pots then got AKo in vs QQ for 4k and won the flip: 10.5kJune 03 2012
Upon reading this information, we walked over to his table to see how he was dictating the action. Sure enough, we found him engaged in a hand with an opponent. The board read and Dunst's opponent checked. With about 2,400 in the pot, Dunst threw out a bet of 1,850.
His opponent sat in silence for about forty seconds before peeking down at his hand and meekly pushing them toward the muck. Dunst scooped up the pot and is now sitting just under 12,000.