A short-stacked Lana O'Brien open-raised all in from early position and it folded around to an opponent in the cutoff seat who called all in for around 3,500. The others skedaddled, O'Brien turned over 
and her opponent 
.
The community cards came 
, and O'Brien earned a boost to her stack as another Day 1a player hits the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
11,500
3,900
|
3,900 |
Following a raise from the cutoff to 1,500, it folded to Lee Childs in the big blind who reraised his short stack of 9,650 all in, and after a moment of deliberation his opponent called.
Childs tabled 
while his opponent showed 
, and when the flop brought three black cards both players sat back in their seats. The board ended up an interesting-looking 
, provoking others to comment in woulda-coulda fashion on the flushes they'd missed, but the end result was an anticlimactic chop.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,500
1,000
|
1,000 |
There was 11,000 in the middle on a board that read 
, and Micah Raskin was heads up with another opponent. Raskin fired out a big bet of 8,500, and his opponent tanked for about 45 seconds before kicking his hand in.
Despite that hand, Raskin was down from the last time we saw him. He was as high as 65,000, but now he's down to 58,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
Level: 8a
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Action following a 
flop saw Scott Baumstein all in and at risk with (two pair) versus an opponent's 
(one pair and a gutshot straight draw).
Baumstein was still ahead after the 
turn, but the river brought the to give his opponent trips and the New Yorker has been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
||
At the moment, the big clock says that we have 304 entrants. However, registration is still open through the end of the day, so we expect that number to go up. We won't have an official count on the number of players in the tournament until registration officially closes at the start of play tomorrow.
Having taken a hit early today after his pocket kings were cracked when an opponent with pocket fives flopped a set, Travis Williams battled gamely with a below-average stack for nearly seven levels until his Day 1a finally came to an end. Kings proved unkind to him again in his last hand when a final short-stack shove was met with a player in the blinds waking up with 
, and five cards later Williams was out.
Williams has already bought his seat for the Day 1b flight, however, so we'll see be seeing him again soon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
You may not recognize the name Micah Raskin, but he has been on quite the heater in 2013. He already has two six figure scores, taking 3rd in the $25,000 High Roller at LAPC last month. He also finished 8th at the $25,000 high roller in PCA in January. He also took home the A$5,000 6-max turbo event at the Aussie Millions for just under $80,000. Well he's riding the momentum of those tournaments today as he's off to a great start here in today's event.
We just caught Raskin in a hand on the turn, with the board reading 
. Raskin and his opponent both checked, and the river was the 
. Raskin's opponent fired 3,500 into the pot, which had about 6,000 in it, and Raskin went into the tank. Eventually, he gave his chips a kiss before putting them in, and he tabled 
for eights full of aces.
His opponent showed for a chopped pot, and each player collected half the chips in the middle. After that hand, Raskin is one of our chip leaders, now sitting on 65,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
Following a middle-position raise, Travell Thomas made it 2,650 to go from the cutoff, and when it folded around his opponent called.
The flop came 
, and when checked to Thomas fired a continuation-bet of 2,600 only to see his opponent check-raise over the top by pushing 25,000 out in front of himself — well more than what Thomas had left behind.
Thomas waited a few seconds, then exhaled as he tossed his cards away to preserve his remaining chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
12,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
The players are back in their seats, and we are ready to play the last three levels of Day 1a.
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