An early position player got all of his chips in preflop against Vladimir Medvinsky, who had his opponent well covered in the small blind.
Early Position Player: 
Vladimir Medvinsky: 
Board: 
The opponent took the lead with a pair of jacks on the flop, but the set of tens came in for Medvinsky on the turn, sealing the double up. Medvinsky is sitting on one of the bigger stacks in the room as Level 13 plays on.
Najib Kero opened to 12,000 from middle position, and Eric Podnieks called in the small blind.
The flop came 
, and Podnieks checked. Kero bet 22,000, and Podnieks put in the check-raise shove for his last 76,000.
Kero thought it over for a bit, then folded.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Adrian Lopez, from early position, ended up in an all in preflop situation against a player on the big blind. The big blind's tournament life was at risk going to the showdown.
Big Blind: 
Adrian Lopez: 
Board: 
Lopez had the big edge with the pocket nines when the cards turned over, and his hand held through the runout and sent another player to the rail.
The eliminations are starting to happen at a rapid pace as Day 1b winds down.
Young Hilliard eclipsed the 200k mark after eliminating Edward Spaulding, with Hilliard's 
holding up against Spaulding's in an all in preflop hand.
One table over, just seconds later, Vladimir Medvinsky had his opponent covered in another all in preflop situation.
Opponent:
Vladimir Medvinsky: 
Board: 
Medvinsky's pocket kings held up, and the Day 1b field is down to 38 players.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Players are on the last 15-minute break of the day. Three more half-hour levels will play out after the break, before Day 1b action come to an end.
The $100,000 prize pool will be distributed among 22 in-the-money finishers from the total field of 171.
The 22nd place finisher will earn the min cash of $959. The champion of the Main Event will take home the first place prize of $27,180.
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