Kenna James has bitten the dust. All in preflop and dominated with against Alon Shahar's , he was actually looking pretty good for a double up after hitting the flop, but was eventually undone by a backdoor flush.
Since Scotty Nguyen bought a round for his table, the sound of raucous laughter, raised voices and all-round hilarity and thorough enjoyment of this tournament from his table is deafening -- it's actually managing to drown out the continuous chatter-and-chip-riffle buzz of the Amazon Room. No mean feat.
As his stack was beginning to dwindle, Justin Filtz has found a crucial double up at just the right time, his stack now boasting 178,000 and looking good for day two.
The action began with Filtz himself, his raise of 3,600 being repopped by Dario Minieri who made it 11,000 to play.
Steve Gross then sprung into action a couple of seats down, pushing all in for 58,000.
Although Minieri passed, Filtz made the call, his comfortably ahead of Gross' .
A board later and Gross was done, a casher here today, but a day one exit nonetheless.