One Level Down
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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.