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Day 1 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 49 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Here's the overnight top ten:
Micah Raskin 175,200
Young Phan 140,000
Greg Alexander 134,700
Greg Mueller 131,700
Manelic Minaya 127,300
Matt Matros 113,600
Rasmus Nielsen 110,600
Gregg Merkow 109,900
Alexander Case 97,300
JC Tran 92,600
Complete chip counts for all 215 players have now been added to our chip counts page. Check back this afternoon at 2pm PDT when action resumes in this event.
Chip leaders going into tomorrow include:
Micah Raskin
Young Phan
Greg "FBT" Mueller
Manny Minaya
All these players currently have over 100,000 and start tomorrow in great shape!
while his opponent, Alexander Maria, showed 
. Khan spiked a five on the flop and eliminated his opponent.
Also of note, Men's wife, Van Nguyen, has also cashed this evening and is playing just a few tables down from the Master.
and although he hit a four on the flop, he wasn't able to best Tran's hand and was eliminated.
The first elimination that was reported was of David Pointer who moved all-in from the small blind with pocket aces and was called by a player in the cutoff who held
. Pointer's opponent flopped an open-ended straight draw which connected on the river and eliminated Pointer on the bubble.The second elimination was of Dove Byrne, who was all-in in the small blind for just 300 and was called by Jeff Kent. Kent held pocket twos and Byrne held J-6. Byrne failed to hit a pair by the river and was eliminated from today's event.
. Phan led out for 8,000 and Murphy called. The turn brought the 
and Phan check-called a 17,000 raise from Murphy. The river was the 
and after Phan checked, Murphy made it 24,000 to go. Phan came over the top by moving all in and Murphy eventually folded the hand, but not before flashing pocket eights for a flopped set.After the fold, Murphy is down to 23,000 while Phan is up over 100,000.
