Over at Table 42, Johnathon Gilliam got his short stack all in preflop and found himself in a race situation against Nick Olivieri.
Johnathon Gilliam: 
Nick Olivieri: 
Gilliam was looking to hold to double but that proved easier said than done as a king spiked on the flop. Neither the turn nor river helped Gilliam and he headed to the rail.
With more than $1.1 million in live tournament earnings dating back to just 2016, Ryan McKnight is one of the most accomplished players in the Parx Big Stax XXXII 1100 Championship Day 1a field.
McKnight is perhaps best known for finishing fourth in the 2017 World Series of Poker Event #47: $1,500 Monster Stack for $374,515. Earlier that same year, he won the Borgata Winter Poker Open Event #14: $1,090 NLH for $78,665, and more recently finished sixth in the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Event #1: $570 Deepstack for $58,421.
Toss in 24th in the 2019 WSOP Millionaire Maker for $47,820 and eighth in the 2018 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship for $41,813 and you round out the top five results on McKnight’s poker résumé.
That said, if all goes according to plan here at Parx he may knock some down the list with the second six-figure score of his career.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.
After a player limped from early position, Joseph Si raised to 700 next to act. The player on the button called and David Stevens came along from the big blind. The limper made it four players to the flop, which came down 
.
Two checks saw Si continue for 1,300 and the player on the button folded. Stevens then check-raised to 4,000, the limper folded, and Si pushed back by making it 10,000 to go.
Stevens called and then check-called a bet of 15,000 on the 
turn.
When the 
completed the board on the river, Stevens checked for the third time and Si moved all in for just a tad over 25,000. Stevens thought for about 10 seconds and then flicked his cards to the muck.
We missed the hand unfold but learned after the fact that Ryan Messick doubled through John Grubbs in a big pot. As it was told to us by Al Riccobono, Messick had raised with six-seven suited only to get three-bet by Grubbs. Messick four-bet it, Grubbs called, and the former flopped a gutshot, which he'd hit later in the hand.
Long story short, Messick shoved all in and got a call from Grubbs, who had two pair.
In the next hand, Grubbs moved all in from middle position for his last 2,100 and Riccobono called from the lojack. The rest of the players got out of the way and the hands were turned up.
Al Riccobono: 
John Grubbs: 
It was a flip but the proverbial coin came down in Riccobono's favor after the board ran out 
.
2004 WSOP champ Greg Raymer raised to 500 from the lojack and received calls from the players in the hijack and big blind.
When the flop fell 
, the big blind checked and Raymer continued for 700. Both of his opponents folded and Raymer won it nice and easy.
At the same time, the field got quite a bit tougher as 2015 WSOP Main Event champ Joe McKeehen, who is fresh of finishing second in the 2020 Potomac Winter Poker Open $3,000 Main Event, entered the field.
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