Congratulations, You've Made the First Break
The first level is in the books for the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Much of the starting field has made it through to the first break, but there were a few less fortunate souls including Nick Schulman and Greg Raymer.
Schulman had a rough day to start and eventually had his kings cracked to be eliminated from the event. Raymer was crippled when his top pair and flush draw ran into a set. Raymer failed to hit and was crushed early on. He did find a triple up, but only to a few thousand before his pocket eights ran into pocket aces and he was eliminated, making him the first previous Main Event champion to hit the rail in 2010.
On the other side of the spectrum were Lacey Jones, Steve Jelinek and Isaac Haxton who all won some nice pots to move near the 50,000-chip mark.
The players are now on a 20-minute break and we'll be back for Level 2 then.