A player raised preflop from early position to 500 and was called by Phil Laak in the hijack. The player in the small blind three-bet to 2,000 and action folded back to Laak, who made the call. The flop came 
and the small blind checked. Laak bet 3,100 and his opponent folded after about 20 seconds.
Laak tabled 
for the flopped set, exclaiming his opponent was lucky he didn't have something like an overpair.
Pierce Mckellar was just shoving all in for his last 2,600 chips and taking down the blinds preflop. Mckellar recently took 7th place in Event #16: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6 Handed, making the unofficial final table and earning a payday of $48,954.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Here is another round of arrivals in Level 1.
With the field size nearing 1,000 entrants midway through Level 1, play is going on in both the Brasilia and Miranda rooms. Here are a couple faces who were in the tournament by the time the cards started flying.
The tournament has finished making all announcements and has announced the beginning of Level 1 with instructions to the dealers to shuffle up and deal.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
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Welcome back to another exciting day at the 2019 World Series of Poker! This year has already been full of action and record-breaking field sizes and that could be set to continue because today marks the beginning of Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em.
Although tournaments of this game and buy-in level are nothing new to the World Series of Poker, this specific event with regards to its structure has never been run. In today’s tournament, players receive starting stacks of 20,000 and levels will each last 40 minutes.
There will be 20-minute breaks at the completion of every three levels, with a 75-minute dinner break after the ninth level of play. Players will be allowed one-re entry should they be eliminated from the tournament and registration will be open until the beginning of Level 10, which will be around 6:55 p.m. local time.
Cards will be in the air at 11 a.m. local time. Day 1 will play a total of 15 levels, with the remaining players coming back Wednesday at noon local time. With shorter levels than the typical one-hour structures at the Series, Day 2 is scheduled to play down until the final six players, who will then return the following day to play for what is certain to be life-changing money and a WSOP gold bracelet.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for live coverage throughout the day and for the entire 2019 World Series of Poker.
Event #28: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
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