It has taken nearly eleven hours of play, but finally play for day one of Event 41 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout is wrapped up!
280 players took a seat in today's event including Phil Hellmuth, David 'Chino' Rheem, Chris Ferguson, Daniel Alaei and Daniel Negreanu. However none of the above would able to defeat their table of ten, and were forced to the rail and the next tournament.
Thirty players made it through to day two and the minimum $16,740 payout including Phil Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Neil Channing, Alexander Veldhuis, Barny Boatman and David 'The Dragon' Pham.
With play kicking off at 2pm local time tomorrow, make sure to join PokerNews to catch all the action as we play down to the final table!
Scott Montgomery opened to 5,000 from the button before Maxim "Decay" Lykov pushed it up to 22,000.
Montgomery moved all in and was double-fist-pump-snap called by Lykov when he slammed down his . Montgomery tabled his and when the board ran out he was sent packing.
Neil Channing is slowly grinding away at Michael Hauptman, currently taking his once huge disadvantage to a near equal equation.
Not too many huge hands have been shown down, but rather Channing has been talking his way up the chip leaderboard taking down pot after pot after pot.