We just saw Matt Stout at the cash desk and he was kind enough to tell us that he was eliminated by Jonas Mackoff. Stout shoving 16BB with into, what transpired to be a three way pot, which Mackoff won with .

Matt Stout

0

-33,100

There are 166 players left and Martin Finger is not one of them. Finger is one of Germany's hottest poker prospects with over $1 million in earnings in a short 2-year career. Finger's greatest achievement to date came when he won a European Poker Tour (EPT) title in the same year his countryman Pius Heinz took down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

Finger has just lost all of his chips to another German, Uri Reichenstein, who has had a great morning thus far. We didn't see the pre flop action but know that Finger was all-in holding and Reichenstein was all-in holding . The board ran out and Finger was out. Reichenstein takes the moving feast of a chip lead with 166,000.

Uri Reichenstein	166,000	46,800
Martin Finger	0	-74,600

We don't know exactly how the action went, but we do know after a series of raises Sergey Tikhonov put his opponent all in. Tikhonov's opponent made the call and was at risk.

Cards were flipped over and Tikhonov was in bad shape as his wasn't exactly on an even level with his opponent's . The board fell and Tikhonov shipped over 10,000 for his opponent's double up.

One of the players jokingly made accusations of collusion, but Tikhonov ignored them completely focused on the game at hand.

Sergey Tikhonov

84,000

24,400

John Eames has just managed to create a wonderful little spin up from himself. He found himself down to 5,000 when he won three consecutive all-ins - v , v & then finally v - and now has 50,000 chips.

John Eames

50,000

16,500

We just witnessed a 150,000 pot between Andreas Heissenberger and Kyle Fleishman. We caught the action with Fleishman having moved all-in as a four-bet and Heissenberger pondering the 75,000 question that had been posed to him. In the end Heissenberger was struck by some inspiration and said, "I think you're bluffing…I call."

Fleishman - who wasn't bluffing - turned over and Heissenberger turned over . The board ran out and Fleishman had pumped his stack up to 150,000. Heissenberg was down to 32,000.

Kyle Fleishman	150,000	149,999
Andreas Heissenberger	32,000	-63,300

While writing up a post Allen Kessler was nice enough to stop by the PokerNews desk and inform us of a recent double up he had.

Apparently Kessler was able to get into a pot with four other players holding . The flop came and Kessler managed to get in against an opponent who held .

Kessler managed to hold on and now sits with around 60,000 in chips. This is Kessler's 17th cash since 2010, and looks to take down poker glory today.

Allen Kessler

60,000

35,700

The flop read and Benjamin Volpe bet out 6,400. His opponent on the button made the call. We don't know exactly how the action went preflop, but

The on the turn saw both players check their option. The on the river saw a bet of 16,700. The button then made the call and Volpe exposed for the ace high flush. The button mucked and Volpe moved into one of the top stacks in the room.

Benjamin Volpe

145,000

52,900

A few more eliminations as the player total plummets to 214.

Huck Seed has 4 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and close to $3 million in WSOP cashes to his name, but he will not be going any deeper in this event. He has just found himself all-in holding against an opponent holding . To add a bit of spice into the proceedings the board ran out .

Also out is serial WSOP casher Tom "The Shamrock Kid" McCormack. McCormack running into pocket queens in a pre flop all-in confrontation.

Huck Seed	0	-36,100
Tom McCormick	0	-13,100

The air is struggling to contain all of the, "all-in and call's," spewed forth from the mouths of the dealers. The day really has started with a slugfest of shoves, re-shoves and calls. Here are two eliminations for you.

Dara Davey raised all-in for 14,600 total and Joao Simao also moved all-in to his immediate left. Nobody else joined the fray and it was Simao and his versus Davey and his . The board ran out and Davey was out.

Then we saw an all-in between Uri Reichenstein and Samuel McGrath. McGrath was the person at risk of elimination, but he was in great shape.

Reichenstein
McGrath

Board:

Reichenstein rivered a straight and the luckless McGrath was out.

Uri Reichenstein	119,200	34,800
Joao Simao	50,800	50,800
Dara Davey	0	-17,200
Samuel Mcgrath	0	-34,800

Play is moving along pretty quickly for it being the first 5 minutes of the day. Walking around the tournament area you can't avoid hearing someone say "pay out!". The short stacks are moving in, trying to grab hold of something substantial or hit the rail early and do something else with their day.

Over at table #359 one of those short stacks, Jonathan Ko moved all in for around 4,600. Liya Gerasimova called from the cut-off and Dutch Boyd did the same from the big blind.

The dealer spread a flop of and Ko exploded in glee. Obviously very excited he started talking about his hand, basically saying he won. The table told him to be quiet as there were other people involved in the hand, and he mildly suppressed his excitement.

Boyd bet out 5,000 and Gerasimova made the call. The fell on the turn and both players took the opportunity to check.

After the hit the river both players repeated their actions with checks and cards were exposed. Ko flipped over for a set of tens. Boyd flipped over for a pair of aces, which was apparently enough to take the small side pot, as Gerasimova mucked her cards.

Dutch Boyd

72,600

-3,400

Yesterday saw 3,221 players come out for their chance at a World Series of Poker bracelet, today only 265 remain. Not only will these players being competing for a bracelet, but also $500,075. Only one person will be the ultimate victor. Who will it be?

Two players finished day 1 coincidentally sharing the chip lead. Jonas Mackoff and Clayton Fletcher both ended the day bagging 148,500. Other players who will be in contention today are Justin Schwartz, Huck Seed, Alex Kravchenko, Matt Stout, Joey Weissman, and Sofia Lovgren. Matt Stout has already final tabled a $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event this year early, but a tough spot sent him packing in third in Event 33: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em.

Action is expected to start back up at 1:00 PM in the Amazon room. Stay tuned here to PokerNews for all your poker updates.