Gavin Smith and Michele Limongi were heads-up before the dinner break, but after the break, Limongi returned and Smith did not.
For a while, they were simply dealing out hands and folding them and giving Limongi the blinds, but now the official ruling is that every two minutes Limongi will receive the amount of the blinds from Smith's stack (which is now down to around 12,000). If Smith comes back, he'll be very short, but if not, he should be completely blinded out by the end of the level.
A very low stacked Richard Brodie ended up all in against David Speicher preflop.
Speciher:
Brodie:
Brodie was never able to catch up as the cards came up . David Speicher managed to get out of a table filled with talent besting the likes of Jerry Buss, Svetlana Gromenkova, and Richard Brodie.
Justin Pechie is our most recent winner. We aren't sure when the money went in, but Joseph Kuther was eliminated when his couldn't beat Pechie's on a board reading .
Hal Lubarsky raised it up on the button, his opponent in the big blind re-raised, and Lubarsky called.
The flop came down , the big blind bet and Lubarsky called.
The turn was and the big blind checked, Lubarsky bet, and the big blind folded.
Lubarsky has 39,000 of the 41,500 on the table and is looking good for his second WSOP cash and will likely become the only blind person with multiple WSOP cashes.
We are down to 15 tables here on Day 1 of the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout and all of them are heads-up. It shouldn't be too long before we call it a day and have our Day 2 all set.
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. David Speicher managed to get out of a table filled with talent besting the likes of Jerry Buss, Svetlana Gromenkova, and Richard Brodie.
and Herbel bet out with his opponent calling.
and Herbel bet out again with his opponent calling all in.
for a royal flush draw and his opponent just had 
for a gut shot straight draw. The river bricked and Herbel won the table
and his opponent with 
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for king high.
and Leshovsky won the hand and will go on to tomorrow.
, the big blind bet and Lubarsky called.