David "ODB" Baker was all in and Michelle Chin reraised pot. Another short stack entered the pot and the two players were at risk against Chin's 40,000+ stack.
Chin: 
Baker: 
Seat 8: 
The board ran out 
, giving Chin the nut flush and winning her the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
48,000 | |
|
Busted |
The $565 Pot-Limit Omaha field will now start falling pretty fast with no more reentries. The players just started Level 7 and have 11 more levels to go before they bag.
As with all of the multi-starting flight tournaments at the WSOP, players will make the money sometime during Day 1 a few hours before they actually bag chips for Day 2.
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 0
The players are on a 15-minute break and the late registration period will be over when the next level resumes.
Rep Porter, Shannon Shorr, and defending champ Ryan Laplante were all in line for a new seat assignment as the tournament headed to the break.
There are a lot of big stacks building up early and Kyle Bowker holds one of them. Bowker won his first WSOP bracelet last year in $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Eight or Better.
Some less notable players with big stacks are Michelle Chin and Pat Mattiodo. The two are sitting next to each other with almost 100,000 between the two of them.
Mattioda lost the last hand he played but still had 45,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
48,000 | 48,000 |
|
45,000 | |
|
41,000 | 24,000 |
Shaun Deeb is up to almost 30,000 as the late registration period comes to a close.
He said he has been all in six hands in a row.
"They've all been good hands," he said. "Even these guys would play these hands."
His latest hand he got all in with 
against a player with 
.
The board ran out 
and Deeb held on to win the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
29,000 | 24,000 |
Jay Engelhardt is sitting just under 50,000 after a three-way pot against Colossus I Champion Cord Garcia.
The flop was 
and Garcia, Engelhardt got all in with Brian Frasure.
Garcia: 
Engelhardt: 
Frasure:
Frasure ended up winning the main pot and Engelhardt won the main pot, leaving Garcia as the odd man out and he headed to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,000 | |
|
|
9,000 | |
|
Busted |
Jason Wheeler is approaching 40,000. On this hand, he eliminated one player when he turned a diamond flush.
Wheeler had 
and the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 0
Outside the Rio? Sarah Herring has you covered.
Here are some of the bigger stacks, building in the early stages of Level 5.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000 | 27,000 |
|
31,000 | 25,300 |
|
29,000 | 19,800 |
|
|
27,000 | 22,000 |