Priyan de Mel continues his ascent skywards, he snap-called a bet of 700 on a 
turn before betting out 1,100 on the 
river after his opponent checked.
One of those "I think you have it but I cannot bring myself to fold" moments followed and De Mel showed 
which was enough to scoop the pot.
Born in Edison, New Jersey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan is one of the youngest, brightest and biggest stars in the poker world. Dwan began playing poker online in $6 sit-n-gos after a deposit of just $50. After crushing those, he moved over to cash games where he grinded his way up the ranks. Dwan admits to having run extremely well and shooting up in limits within a few months. Before everyone knew it, “durrrr” was a staple in the biggest nosebleed limits possible.
Dwan was unable to play poker in the U.S. due to age restrictions and forced to play either online or outside of the States. In 2005 when he was just 19 years old, Dwan cashed in the Main Event on an EPT. His next tournament splash wouldn’t be until he was 21 at the World Poker Finals held at Foxwoods in Connecticut. At that event, Dwan placed fourth for nearly $325,000. That was in 2007.
In 2008, he placed second in an event at the Aussie Millions Championship for over $100,000 and then went heads up with Mike Sowers in a prelim event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Dwan finished second for over $225,000 there.
His first year of the WSOP came in 2008, but it was a solid first appearance. He made the final table of the $10,000 Mixed Championship. The final table included Sam Farha, Michael DeMichele, Eli Elezra and James “Mig.com” Mackey. Dwan went on to finish eighth. He also finished eighth in the $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw with Rebuys event, just missing the final table by one person.
Also in 2008, Dwan placed ninth in the Five-Star World Poker Classic for $184,670. The same year he competed in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship and defeated Phil Hellmuth after cracking his aces with pocket tens.
Dwan’s also been known to take on some of the toughest competition in poker in Bobby’s Room in Las Vegas. At first, his style seemed crazy and many believed he was just lucky. In time though, Dwan has garnered respect from other top professionals of the game for being one of the greatest minds in poker. To the young online kids, Dwan is a god. In high-stakes televised action, Dwan regularly participates in High Stakes Poker.
This year at the WSOP, Dwan placed second behind Simon Watt in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. The event drew a ton of attention because if Dwan won, he was set to collect millions of dollars from bracelet bets. Unfortunately, he fell in second place. He had three other cashes this year in Vegas as well.
Dwan only has one WSOP Europe cash in the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event last year. He took 14th in that event for £12,713. Much like another poker juggernaut he regularly plays with in high-stakes games Phil Ivey, Dwan can't seem to get those top results he's after at the WSOP Europe. This year he has a ton riding on bracelet bets, but so far, nothing has come for Dwan.
He just recently doubled up to 11,000 and that may just be the momentum he's been looking for to start really building a stack here on Day 1b. Right now, Dwan sits with 18,625 in chips after having a pretty up-and-down start to his day, so that double may have been the spark that ignited the fire.
We just caught the tail end of this pot, the latest in a long string of slippery pots for one-time chip leader Chance Kornuth. For this hand, there was a board of 
out on board when we approached and a pot of about 3,000 in the middle of the table. Terence Tanner let out with a little overbet of 3,500 straight, and Kornuth tank-called.
Tanner showed up 
for kings up, and Kornuth nodded in acknowledgement as he slowly placed his cards into the muck. It seems like just moments ago he was riding the big stack of close to 25,000, but Kornuth has given most of that to Tanner (the new chip leader) and now finds himself back around double his starting stack (and below average) with 6,400.
Just like yesterday, the players are dropping out fairly fast in this event. We're about 10 minutes away from dinner and there's 56 players left from the 195 that started the day. When we went on dinner break yesterday, 55 players remained from the 202 that started, or just over 27%. In order to see the same percentage drop, there will need to be 53 players left when we hit dinner today. A few more eliminations and we'll be there.
Tom Dwan raised to 525 from middle position and was flat called by a player on the button. The flop came 
and both players checked.
On the turn, Dwan led for 825, but his opponent two-bet to 2,325. Dwan seemed to be contemplating doing something crazy, but ultimately opted for the fold.
A minor hit for Dwan; he still has 15,500.
Scott Fischman checked a flop of 
across to Dominik Nitsche who fired out a bet of 1,650. Fischman replied with a check-raise to 4,000 and Nitsche quickly moved all-in.
"Really?" said Fischman.
"Yes, really." Nitsche quickly replied.
Fischman did a quick recheck of his cards before he folded leaving himself 11,000. Nitsche has 22,000.
There was about 6,000 in the pot when we walked up to a 
board on fourth street. Scott Fischman checked, and Ralph Perry slid out a bet of 2,500. Without much delay, Fischman check-raised all in for around 6,000 total. Perry sighed heavily and leaned back in his chair, only 2,900 chips left in his stack. When you're beat, you're bet, though, and Perry cut his losses and mucked his hand.
Fischman flashed him to settle his curiosity and stacked up about 14,500 chips.
After a player opened from under the gun to 800, Andrew Lichtenberger reraised to 2,300 from the small blind. His opponent called and the two saw the flop come down 
. Lichtenberger checked and his opponent checked behind.
The 
landed on the turn and Lichtenberger fired 2,250. His opponent folded and Lichtenberger scooped the pot. He's been doing well to add to his stack lately and moved to 11,000 in chips.
Poker players, as you know are hungry beasts, that's why we're now on a 90 minute dinner break.
Would you believe that play has resumed? Well, you should, because it has. We promise.
A quick head count tells us that 54 players have survived to this stage of Day 1b, one player less than yesterday. We'll play three more levels to match the Day 1a schedule before calling it a night.
