Stewart Scott put all his chips in the middle preflop against Florian Grund.
Scott:
Grund:
The board rolled out and Scott's dreams of a repeat were sent to the rail. As he was walking by the desk here, we heard him tell Grant Levy, "There's always next year."
A short-stacked Lee Nelson is hanging on as he's just doubled up once again. It was a battle of the blinds, with Nelson taking into battle against his opponent's .
Catching the action on a flop of , play checked to Dennis Huntly on the button who fired 1,150. His opponent in the small blind check-raised to 3,200 and Huntly made the call.
The turn brought the and both players checked to see the brick on the river.
The small blind led out with a healthy bet of 6,800 to send Huntly into the tank for a long time. Huntly fired a few verbals but received no reaction. Eventually Huntly tossed out a call but wasn't pleased to see his opponent table . Huntly flashed the and mucked as he slips to 28,000.
Jay Rosenkrantz has been eliminated in a huge clash with Van Marcus.
Marcus recalled to us the details. It was a multi-way flop of that sparked the action with Rosenkrantz holding top two pair but Marcus had spiked a set of sixes in the big blind.
The turn was a and Marcus improved to quads with another on the river.
Marcus is up to around 70,000 to be amongst the chip leaders heading into the dinner break.
Now that our technological issues are (knock on wood) behind us, we're able to let you know that there were 243 total runners for Day 1b of the Main Event -- a 10 player increase over yesterday's field.
What this means, amongst other things, is that in order to surpass last year's main event numbers (681), tournament organizers need only 205 players to turn out for tomorrow's Day 1c flight (the third and final start day).
Due to the nature of tournaments with multiple starting days, we'll go out on a limb and say that the odds are in Crown's favor.