After flying under the radar for most of the day Jon Turner is most definitely making his presence known now.
A player in early position raised to 1,500 and both Turner in the cutoff and the big blind called. The flop came , the big blind checked, the preflop raiser bet 2,500 and Turner called. The big blind folded and the turn brought the . The other player bet 4,500 and Turner again opted to call. The river was the and both players checked.
The other player instantly mucked his hand before Turner revealed his for a pair of queens.
After the hand Turner's stack was up over 110,000 and we believe he is the first player to amass over 100,000 chips.
A player in early position open-raised for 1,325 and Layne Flack three-bet to 3,700 from middle position. Action folded back around to Flack's opponent, who cut out a raise to 7,800 and slid it into the middle. Flack didn't waste too much time mucking his hand.
Flack's tournament life is still strong, however, with a stack hovering around 42,000.
On one of the last hands before the conclusion of Day 1b, we caught up on a hand involving Kara Scott and Ron Burns.
The board read and more than 10,000 chips were up for grabs in the middle. Sitting in the small blind, Kara Scott led out for 5,000 and Burns thought things over before making the call. He showed his for a runner-runner flush and Scott winced in pain as she mucked her cards. Burns ended the day with 32,875 in chips which puts him in good standing as we head to Day 2 tomorrow afternoon.
It was another exciting day here in the Pavillion. 2,062 players started day 1b with dreams of a WSOP bracelet and in a bit of deja vu from yesterday we were left with only 312 at the end of the night. They will join the 312 survivors of day 1a tomorrow afternoon meaning we will start day 2 with a total of 624 players
Total registration for the event was 4,178, which is 167 players less than the number of participants this event got last year.
After spending most of the day flying under our radar, Jon Turner is our current chip leader with 99,200. Yesterday's chip leader, Albert Kim, had only 74,675.
Some big stacks at the end of 1b included Jason Koon with 73,075 and Eugene Kim 57,225.
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, the big blind checked, the preflop raiser bet 2,500 and Turner called. The big blind folded and the turn brought the 
. The other player bet 4,500 and Turner again opted to call. The river was the 
and both players checked.
for a pair of queens.
and more than 10,000 chips were up for grabs in the middle. Sitting in the small blind, Kara Scott led out for 5,000 and Burns thought things over before making the call. He showed his 
for a runner-runner flush and Scott winced in pain as she mucked her cards. Burns ended the day with 32,875 in chips which puts him in good standing as we head to Day 2 tomorrow afternoon.
