All the players started in the money and the action was fast and furious nearly all day long. There were 186 sat at the tables when level 12 began and two hours later at the first break there were 107 left. That would drop to 67 at the second break and there would be just 33 remaining at the dinner break.
Kyle Cartwright, who has 5 WSOP Circuit rings, is the overnight chip leader bagging up 973,000.
Daniel Dizenzo, who was busting players for fun towards the end of the night, is hot on his heels in second place with 912,000.
Third place is Ylon Schwartz who carries 832,000 into Day 2. Schwartz is a chess master and finished 4th in the WSOP Main Event in 2008.
Canada's Miguel Proulx started the day as chip leader but he finished 56th. Andrew Lichtenberger was involved in a lot of pots early on but he would bust out in 46th place. Mark Radoja began the day in good shape hunting his third WSOP bracelet, but couldn’t get a whole lot going and fell in 29th place. The U.K.’s bracelet hope in the field Niall Farrell had a good run but he eventually fell just short in 23rd place.
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Blake Barousse open shoved all in for 188,000 from the button and Nachman Berlin made the call from the big blind. Berlin was at risk and behind as he tabled the versus the of Barousse.
Tom Koral opened to 18,000 from under the gun and Robert Kuhn reraised all in from middle position. Koral made the call and was at risk. Koral flipped over and needed to improve against the of Kuhn.
The flop was and Koral vaulted ahead. The on the turn though sealed it for Kuhn as he turned the set. The inconsequential fell on the river and Koral is out.
Ronald Cooper opened from early position, Kyle Cartwright three-bet from the big blind and Cooper shipped it all in and was met with a call from Cartwright.
Jeremy Dresch had doubled through Stephen Foutty not that long ago and when Dresch limped a few hands later he snapped off a shove from Foutty and had him covered as Foutty put in his last 160,000.
Dresch had and Foutty the baby pair .
The board ran out the two pair on board counterfeiting Foutty’s threes and sending him out.