Excellent Start for Blain

The second player to bust on Day 1b was Tzur Levy and he sent his chips over to Dermot Blain. The Irishman just claimed another decent pot to become the early frontrunner as he cut the stack of Anton Siden into nearly half.

Picking up the action on the turn, Blain in the big blind made it 1,000 to go and Siden in the cutoff raised it up to 4,000, which Blain called. After the river, Blain checked and Siden now made it 8,000 to go. Blain tossed in a raise to 40,000, which had Siden's remaining stack covered by far, and that ended up forcing a fold.