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The players have been sent on a 20-minute break while the green T25 chips are being colored up and raced off. In the meantime, here's a little bit of Dire Straits for you. It's not usually played at sports events, but it's a cool video. Enjoy.
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The cards are back in the air! A few players were bolting back to their seats, to which the tournament supervisor responded: "No running - there is a speed limit!"
Kirsten Seglem opened for 1,800 in late position and was called by Vincent Jacques on the button and Jennifer Leigh in the small blind. The flop came out 
, Leigh checked, Seglem bet 1,700 and Jacques called. Leigh let her hand go and the turn came 
. Seglem led out with 2,000 and after some short consideration Jacques called. The river came 
and Seglem bet 3,000. Jacques tossed in the call and Seglem was visibly not happy with the call as she tabled 
. Jacques showed 
and chased down Seglem's pair.
As the PokerNews Live Reporting Team made the rounds through the White section of the Pavillion, we spotted a rather forlorn-looking Yu Kurita railing her Japanese countryman, Waki Waki. When we asked her what happened, the former child psychology student from Tokyo was happy to take us through her story.
Holding around 25,000 in chips, she first called a player's all-in bet with 
after flopping a full house on a board of 
against her opponent's 
. However, another spiked on the turn to give her opponent a bigger full house and she lost almost half her stack in that hand.
She then lost another chunk of change when her 
was outdrawn by another opponent's 
when he caught running spades for a flush, then ran her 
into a shorter stack's before finally getting the last of her money in with , only to lose the flip for her tournament life against 
.
With deep runs in both this year's and last year's WSOP Ladies Events (13th and 16th place respectively), plus more than $23,000 in tournament cashes since her live tournament debut in Macau in 2010, Kurita could be a big name in the future. Watch this space!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
A player in middle position opened the action with a raise to 2,300 followed by a reraise to 7,000 from a late position player. Maria Ho was in the big blind and moved all in for her final 10,000 chips. The original raiser got out of the way but the final opponent made the call.
Ho: 
Opponent:
The board ran out a brutal 
and the river killed Ho's tournament life. As her opponent was offering his regrets, Ho told him not to worry and that it, "wasn't the first time that's happened this series."
"But hopefully the last," her opponent responded. Maria smiled and exited the tournament area.
Sorel Mizzi was on the button with only a one limper in front of him when he moved all in for 5,550. The blinds released, despite a short speech about the big blind's favorite hand, and the limper called. Mizzi tabled 
and was up against .
The board ran 
and Mizzi left the tournament area.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
The tournament director has instructed the dealers to deal just three more hands before we wrap up for the night.
There was no doubt in anybody’s mind that today was going to be a big day here in the Pavilion Room. Given that this was the last $1,500 event on the schedule before the Main Event, there was going to be plenty of interest from everyone – whether it was your Average Joe or Joe Cada, everyone has eyes on just one prize – the gold bracelet.
Oh, and some life-changing money, let’s not forget about that.
Nevertheless, all 3,389 players faced the Herculean challenge of conquering Day 1 of this event. By the dinner break, one man bolted out in front and coasted through to the finish – Ben Volpe.
He’s bagged up a whopping 156,200 in chips, followed by David Zemel in second place with 127,700. Bryn Kenney (113,000), David Eldridge (111,800) and Tyler Patterson (109,500) round off our top five. Others to have made it through today’s massive field include Brett Jungblut (100,500), Dan Kelly (99,300), Justin Schwartz (80,500), Nick Holbrook (70,900), Gavin Smith (46,500), Eddy Sabat (56,300), Haibo Chu (55,100), Randy Lew (15,200) and Kenny Nguyen (15,000).
Of course, with only 465 players returning for Day 2, naturally, the casualty list was always going to be looooooooong. Just some of the names to have been written into the tournament obituaries were Vanessa Selbst, Humberto Brenes, Scott Montgomery, Antonio Esfandiari, Andre Akkari, Liv Boeree, Sam Trickett and Nacho Barbero.
This concludes our broadcast day! Once again, PokerNews will be back tomorrow from 2.30pm PST (GMT -7) live from the Amazon Room to bring you all the updates, but in the meantime, please stay with us as we burn the midnight oil with both the $50,000 Player’s Championship and the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event.
Until then, in case we don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight!
