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The final $1,000 donkament of the World Series has seen 3,844 players take to the felt to form a $3,459,000 prizepool.
The top 396 players will all be heading home with a guaranteed $1,868 in prize money, but it will be the final table that everyone will be aiming for.
1st - $570,960
2nd - $350, 803
3rd - $255,076
4th - $186,818
5th - $138,107
6th - $103,061
7th - $77,633
8th - $59,020
9th - $45,286
After surviving with the short-stack for most of the afternoon, Mike Wattel has been eliminated. He got his last chips in good with pocket queens against 
, but his opponent's flush sent him railward.
Facing a raise to 600, Senovio Ramirez three-bet to 4,500 only to have his opponent move all in. Ramirez called the addtional few thousand and we were off to a showdown.
Ramirez: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
to see Ramirez double his opponent up and slip to 3,000 in chips.
Ken Aldridge, winner of a WSOP bracelet in 2009 in the $1,500 six-handed no-limit hold'em event and a final tablist at this year's $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event (where he finished 4th), got off to a good start today but was just eliminated.
Kathy Liebert, who won a WSOP bracelet in 2004 in the $1,500 limit hold'em shootout, has been knocked out here.
And Sirous Jamshidi, who has also made four WSOP final tables himself, was sent to the rail recently as well.
J.J. Liu was eliminated near the end of Level 6 in an especially unfortunate hand.
Holding 
, she committed the last of her stack following an 
flop, but her opponent had for the full house. The turn was a ten and the river a queen, and Liu won't be coming back from the soon-to-start dinner break.
Lisa Hamilton opened to 500 from early position only to have an opponent move all in for 4,900.
Hamilton made the call tabling her 
to be in a race against 
.
The 
flop put Hamilton in the lead, but the 
on the turn gave her opponent an additional four outs.
Unfortunately for Hamilton, the river landed the 
to see her opponent double to over 10,000 as she slipped to just under 12,000 in chips.
The remaining players are now heading on their 90-minute dinner break.
See you back here at 8:20 pm PST.
Level: 7
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Players have returned and Level 7 has begun. The plan tonight is to play two more one-hour levels, then 35 minutes' worth of Level 9 before concluding, thereby halting play at the same point it was stopped last for Day 1a.
A total of 3,844 players registered for this event, with 2,340 coming yesterday and 1,504 today.
Of that group of 1,504, we currently have 396 players still with chips. That means 729 players total are still alive in Event #54.
The average chip stack for those here playing Day 1b is about 9,900 as we move through Level 7.
