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We reported earlier that Mark Seif was dangerously short stacked, and on our last pass through the Amazon Room we noticed that his chair was empty.
That can only mean one thing; Seif has been eliminated.
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000
After struggling earlier on, Tuan Le is back up to 21,500 thanks to a turned flush. Le got it all in on a 
flop with 
versus 
before making his flush on the 
turn and dodging a boat on the 
river.
If players thought the Pavillion Room looked a little low on pros, then their hopes of an "easy" day have just been blasted out of the water as Internet superstars Hac Dang and Phil Galfond take their seats.
Commonly known by their online aliases of "Trex313" and "OMGClayAiken" respectively, Dang and Galfond are two of the virtual felt's most fearsome players, and now they're looking to transfer their "mad skillz" onto the baize of the Rio.
Galfond already has a bracelet when he won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha back in 2008, and Dang went deep in last year's Main Event, so maybe this year they'll go that one step further and ensure that the online world is represented come November.
We caught up to the action on this table on a flop of 
and saw Matt Stout check-call a bet of 1,300 from Alex Keating.
The turn was the and both players checked to see a river of 
and checked once more.
Keating said tens were good and that he wanted to "bet so bad on the river" before he checked. Stout could do better than tens, showing 
to win the pot and is now up to 30,800, while Keating is down to 41,750.
With the board reading 
, Shawn Moore and his opponent got all the chips in the middle.
His opponent opened 
for an ace-king high flush, but Moore showed him the nuts; 
.
The 
on the river was irrelevant, and Moore doubled to 16,500 chips.
James "Flushy" Dempsey got his opponent all in after a flop of 
. The unknown player flopped top two with 
, but he soon found out that he was drawing to two outs when Flushy turned up his coolering 
for middle set.
The turn was not an ace, and neither was the 
river, and we're minus one player here on Day 1b. Dempsey is up to 52,000 as he stacks that pot.
We found John Eames in the small blind position checking the turn of a 
board. His one opponent bet 1,500, which, after a period of tanking, Eames called.
They saw a river and Eames checked again. This time his opponent bet 3,500, driving Eames into the tank for an inordinately long time. Eventually Eames called, but promptly mucked to his opponent's tabled 
.
Eames dropped to 20,000 or so.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
This break is going to be extended just a few minutes for two bracelet ceremonies up on the Pavilion stage.
Jack Effel introduced Marcel Vonk to the crowd, champion of the final $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Event. We were treated to the Dutch national anthem as Vonk was given his gold bracelet and his Diamond Total Rewards card. Vonk is a physicist, and he says he'd rather win the Nobel Prize than a bracelet... but it's close.
Second to the stage was Dan Kelly, the champion of Event #52, the big $25,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event. That was good for a payday of well over $1 million for the 21-year-old, and he's already got himself a gold bracelet at that tender age too -- and in possibly the toughest event of the summer, no less. Kelly's bracelet hoisting cued the American national anthem, and we're just a few moments from getting the cards back in the air with Level 2 now.
The players have the first two hours of their Main Event behind them, and they've been sent off for a twenty-minute break.
It was a fine start to the day for Minh Ly, doubling up in set-over-set fashion within just a few minutes of the starting gun. John Duthie has been the most active player in the field as far as we can tell, and he was up there around 55,000 for a while before sliding back down to his starting stack as the level wound down. Kevin Saul and Alex Keating all did good work to see their stacks pushed up around the 50,000-chip mark. Former PokerNews reporter Anthony Yeh also finds himself comfortably above his starting stack.
Things were not so friendly for two of the notable women in our field. Liv Boeree is somewhere around 5,000 as she leaves for the break, and Annette Obrestad has about twice that, but she's still not faring too well. Fortunately, the blinds are still small, and both of those ladies will have some time to try and turn things around in the next level. Dan Shak runs bad, and Arnaud Mattern has a broken foot, and their stacks of about 7,000 apiece are further adding to their discomfort as well.
We'll be back in just a few minutes with Level 2.