Jim Burkett's heater continues here and he's now firmly in the lead as the first player above 300,000. Day 1a chip leader Alex Visbisky was the only player to bag 300,000 or more yesterday.
Burkett crested the 300,000 mark moments ago when he three-bet a 2,500 open from under the gun, making it 6,000. The under the gun player called, then checked the flop. Burkett checked as well, but when the turn was revealed and UTG checked again, he led for 10,000.
UTG called and they both checked the river. Burkett turned over and it was good.
With the end of the 10th level upon them, the players have been sent off on a 45-minute dinner break.
When they return to play the last five levels of the night at approximately 7:10 p.m., the registration and reentry period will officially close.
The board currently reads 136 entries with 75 players remaining. Below you will find chip counts for the current leaders with Jim Burkett's name on top as the only player over 200,000 heading into the break.
Rob Bourkney was having a bad day. He couldn't get anything going early, and was left wondering why as his stack bled away.
Eventually he busted out, but decided to reenter. On his first hand back in play, he got priced into a three-bet pot three-handed with fives, flopped a set and tripled up versus pocket aces and a top two pair.
Now Bourkney is sitting among the bigger stacks in the room into the final level of play before dinner and looking to make this bullet count.
It was a short day for David "Dae Dae" Battaglia, who had some long ones finishing fourth in the 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event this past November.
He lost half his stack in the first half of the day, then shipped the rest in with , ran into Cameron Bartolotta's pocket sevens, and failed to improve.
Bartolotta's now peaking at 55,000 and looking to go on a heater in the second half of the day.
Jason Stockfish has moved into a dead heat with Jim Burkett for the lead now, thanks to one opponent who refused to believe his five-betting range preflop is two aces and the other two aces.
This opponent beat him to the pot with a call for his tournament life holding big slick. No surprises on the board left Stockfish with 125,000 and counting.
The players have been sent off on a 15-minute break with the first eight of the day's 15 levels now behind them. In the meantime, the tournament staff will take the time to color up and remove the 25-denomination green chips.
Play will resume at approximately 5 p.m. local time with two more 40-minute levels to play before the dinner break.
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flop. Burkett checked as well, but when the 
turn was revealed and UTG checked again, he led for 10,000.
river. Burkett turned over 
and it was good.
to make a runner-runner flush, cracking a set of queens.
, getting there against 
to chop a pot with a shorty holding the same hand.
, ran into Cameron Bartolotta's pocket sevens, and failed to improve.
