Three-time bracelet winner Max Stern is playing today and currently sits with 11,600 chips. Stern won a Hi-Lo bracelet in 1995 and in 1997 he and his wife Marie BOTH won bracelets.
Tommy Hufnagel, who won a bracelet in 1998, currently sits with 17,400 chips.
Ed Smith just scooped two pots in a row, once with the nut low and a straight and another with the 2nd-nut low and a straight to nearly double his stack to 17,800.
With the board reading John Phan and another player called bets on the turn and river from the player in the small blind. The SB turned over a club flush and A-5 for the nut low. Phan had A-3 and the other player had A-4, also giving them the nut low, and so all three chopped that half of the pot.
Today's tournament was scheduled to resume at 3pm PDT but there are still sealed bags of chips on the tables and the dealers have just taken their seats. So it's going to be awhile before play begins, we'll update the starting time as soon as we get a definitive answer.
The final 170 players in Event #9 ($1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo) return to action for Day Two at 3:00 pm PDT.
Only the top 63 players will finish in the money, earning at least $3,249, and only the top nine will reach the final table, where the prizes range from $13,657 for ninth to $228,446 for first.
Here are the top 10 chipleaders, along with some notable players further back in the field:
1. Jordan Morgan - 43,400
2. Richard Ashby - 42,600
3. Kiran Patel - 39,200
4. Warren Karp - 34,200
5. Kirill Gerasimov - 28,900
6. John Phan - 28,100
7. J.R. Reiss - 27,000
8. Richard Tatalovich - 26,800
9. Alan Mittelman - 24,600
10. George Guzman - 24,400
14. Reza Payvar - 23,000
18. Tony Cousineau - 21,800
24. Raymond Davis - 19,000
27. Todd Brunson - 18,900
38. Roland de Wolfe - 17,500
44. Peter Costa - 16,100
75. Denis Ethier - 11,900
90. Bill Chen - 9,700
95. Robert Mizrachi - 9,500
106. Thor Hansen - 8,600
141. Erik Seidel - 5,100
142. Chip Jett - 4,900
154. James Van Alstyne - 3,500
155. Berry Johnston - 3,300
159. Jay Heimowitz - 2,700
163. Paul Darden - 2,200
169. Mike Wattel - 1,100