James Gorham limped the button, prompting Thomas Eychenne to move all-in from the big blind, covering his opponents stack.
Gorham called, and the players revealed their holdings.
James Gorham: Ax5x 
Thomas Eychenne: 6♥4♥
The board ran out 9♦K♣7♦5♦6♣, giving Eychenne the best hand and a pass to the next round.
Brock Wilson raised to 12,000 on the button, and Shawn Smith just called from the big blind. The flop came A♠A♣2♥ and Smith led out with a bet of 20,000. Wilson min-raised to 40,00,0, which forced Smith to use one of his time banks before electing to fold.
Next door, Daisuke Hayashi led out with a large bet of 32,000 on the river, and Faraz Jaka jammed all in. Hayashi quickly folded, leaving himself with just 27,000 after the hand.
Level: 10
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
Heads-up specialists Kevin Rabichow and Mike Shi have advanced through their opening round matchups versus Rick Salomon and John Pannucci, respectively. They will be returning at 5 p.m. local time for Round 2 which will complete the action on day one of this event.
A short-stacked Michael Steele limped on the button, and then called when Scott Seiver went all in.
Steele: A♣6♠
Seiver: J♥ 5♠
The board ran out with 6♥4♠3♥10♣7♠ and Seiver's straight won him the pot and put him into the second round.
David Chen raised to 8,000 on the button, and Landon Tice responded by moving all-in for roughly 120,000.
Chen took some time before calling.
Landon Tice: A♠9♥
David Chen: K♦J♦
The flop of 2♥3♥3♦ was safe for Tice, but the J♣ had him in trouble. No help on the 4♥ river and David Chen heads to round two.
Martin Zamani eliminated Takashi Ogura to move on in the tournament.
Meanwhile, Artur Martirosian also scored a knockout, defeating Jeremy Ausmus to move on to the next round.
Frank Cucchiara was down to just 40,000 chips and got them all in preflop against Wesley Fei. Cucchiara turned over Q♥8♥ and was up against the A♠7♠ of Fei.
The board ran out K♥4♠2♦4♣4♥ and Fei's ace-high held on to eliminate Cucchiara.
"You disappointed a lot of people," Xuan Liu stated from the sideline.
"That's OK. I'm a good player," Fei responded.
Rick Salomon limped the button and Kevin Rabichow checked his option.
The flop was 8♦6♦4♣ and Rabichow checked. Salomon bet 3,000 and Rabichow raised to 10,500. That quickly met with an all from Salomon, which Rabichow called.
Salomon: 9♦4♦
Rabichow: Q♦7♦
The board ran out with the J♥ and the 4♥ and Salomon stayed alive in the match.
Level: 9
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 0
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