William Recker will not get his fifth straight cash at Run it Up Reno, but his run this week was very impressive to say the least. Recker just came up to our table and explained how he shoved for his last 40,000 chips and got called by a player holding 
. Recker tabled 
and his inferior ace could not mount a comeback.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 400
Former Survivor winner Tyson Apostol has just been knocked out from the tournament, by the hands of the overwhelming chip leader; Eric Ethans.
The action started with Apostol limping under the gun, and another player limped before Eric Ethans put both players all in from the big blind. Apostol had about 100,000 chips to start the hand, and after a while he decided to call it off.
The other limper folded and the showdown in this massive pot went as following:
Ethans: 
Apostol: 
The board ran out 
and Ethans apologized for knocking Apostol out.
"I looked at the prizes for the first few payout spots, and I decided I didn't care much for those, so I went for it," Apostol said after getting knocked out.
Day 1b chip leader Gina Stagnitto has built her stack up to nearly 280,000 in chips.
Her biggest triumph of that day came when she flopped quad nines with pocket nines against James Murray's pocket tens. The money went in on the turn after Murray turned a full house thanks to a ten hitting the felt. That doubled Stagnitto up, and she hasn't looked back from there.
Brent Harrington was just spotted on the rail, and he explained to us how he lost most of his chips to James Haytko.
Harrington three-bet Haytko's raise to 7,000 up to 20,000 from the big blind and Haytko shoved for about 100,000 with 
. Harrington paused before calling with 
, but the board was not kind to him.
After this hand Harrington had 46,000 chips left and he ended up all in with tens against nines. Harrington's opponent flopped a set of nines, and that spelled the end for mixed game enthusiast.
Sky Matsuhashi has just been knocked out, and we asked him how the action went down. After a limper it was Matsuhashi who decided to move all in for his last 10 big blinds, and the limper called with . Matsuhashi's 
could not improve and he hit the rail empty-handed.
The man with the longest last name in the field, originating from the Basque country in Spain, Rafael Ibaibarriaga just managed to double up. Ibaibarriaga was all in before the flop for 25,400 and the showdown went as following.
Ibaibarriaga: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and Ibaibarriaga doubled up.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
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