At one time during the shenanigans of Day 1 a man by the name of Jimmy Born was our chip leader. His day dipped after that rise to prominence, until the very last hand of the night, when he got it in against Richard Geyer in a huge pot - 
v 
. That pot put Born on 155,500, and into third spot on the leader board. So today should have been a great day for Born. Why then is he walking along the rail muttering into the air?
We caught up with Born and he was kind enough to describe his horrendous morning. His largest loss came against Larry Duplantis. The details were sketchy but I gather they got it in on the turn with Duplantis holding 
for a pair of tens and a straight flush draw and Born held 
for the over cards, straight draw and flush draw. The river card handed Born his flush but it also completed the straight flush of Duplantis who now has 155,000 chips as a net result.
Born then moved tables and he was eliminated soon after by Jeremy Quehen. Quehen had check-raised enough chips to put Born all-in on a board of 
and after a long dwell he made the call. Born held 
and Quehen held 
. The turn 
and river 
bricked for Born and he was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
155,000
79,200
|
79,200 |
|
29,500
1,200
|
1,200 |
|
Busted |
and Randy Lew moved all in. His opponent made the call fairly quickly and flipped over 
for a pair of jacks. Lew countered by exposing 
for the nut flush.
. The board ran out 
and Balaguer was forced to send over some of his chips.
and received a chunk from 
and Yordan Jeliazkov chose the wrong time to bluff the lot. Luckily, for Jeliazkov, he had Rusnak covered at the time and escaped that fracas with just 17,700 chips from a starting stack of 126,000.
sling-shotting Weissman into the lead. Selbst now needed running straight cards or a 10 to steal this hand back in her favor.
on the river. Selbst was clearly a little upset, and made no attempt at hiding it. Selbst even went as far to ask Baumann how many outs of Weissman's did she have. Apparently she held 
giving Moorman a flush draw. The 
. The board ran out 
and crossed his chest for good luck. It seemed to work as well because his only caller was Luke Vrabel holding 
. The board was 
and Chin doubled up to 6,400; Vrabel was down to 49,000.
and the small blind bet out 4,200. Gualtieri response was to move all in for about 23,200 more. The small blind went into the tank, pondering his decision. After a handful of moments had passed the small blind threw it away.
