Event #56: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em

In eight short levels we have whittled our field down from 1,941 to less than 600.

The number on the board said 585 as the last three hands of the night were announced, so we will probably have ended up with just a few under that. Impressive stuff, but remember, the plan is to play down to a final table tomorrow, and with only 198 places paying out at all, we are looking at this tournament possibly even going to four days.

Our chip leader heading into Day 2 looks to be Marc Sander, on around 100,000. Plenty of big names are still in the field as well - Victor Ramdin, Dan Heimiller and Matt Hawrilenko are just a few of the folks still in with a shot at this, the last bracelet event before the Main Event. Among the folks who didn't make it were Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe and Joe Hachem.

We'll be back here at 3pm PT tomorrow when we will be starting out on the long road down to a final table. Join us back here then.

We found Yann Brosolo checking the river of a   board, a good few chips in the middle of the table. His opponent checked behind, and Brosolo flipped  . HIs opponent couldn't beat it and mucked, and Brosolo moved up to 40,000.

We arrived just in time to see an all-in player turn over   and Jon Turner flip a dominating  . Another plyer at the confessed that he had folded pocket nines.

"You folded two of my nines?" said the all-in player. "Thanks for telling me that, man."

Board:  

Matt Hawrilenko is looking to finish the day on a high note. We walked over to his table just in time to see him arranging a new stack of chips after his   bested an all-in opponent's  . He's now up to about 37,000 chips.

Joe Cada found himself needing some help, all in for 6,525 with    against an opponent's   .

The     flop was decent for Cada, but he was still behind. The turn was the  , giving Cada the lead. He faded the necessary outs as the river brought the  .

Cada is up to about 14,000 after the hand.

Two Main Event Champions still remain in the field today. Joe Cada is on the low end, hovering around 6,500, while Jamie Gold is having a very nice day, up to about 52,000.

Simon Trumper is up to 26,000. He tols us how it happened.

There had been a raise, which Trumper called holding  . Another gent called, and they saw an   flop with two clubs on it. The original raiser bet out, Trumper went all in, the third player folded, and they were on their backs. Trumper's opponent tabled  , but a third club came in to make Trumper a flush and double him up.

By the by, at some point the tables seem to have switched from 10-handed to nine-handed. The tournament is still occupying a whole section in both the Amazon Room and the Pavilion Room, and they seem to be breaking tables from both rooms, making it particularly hard to track players. One of the players who seems to have quietly disappeared in the midst of all this is the king of the ninja-like silent exit, Phil Ivey.

20 more minutes of hanging around outside.

Back shortly.

It's just come to our collective attention that the information we received earlier from Harrahs was wrong. Something got miscalculated somewhere along the line and the total number of runners for this tournament was in fact 1,941, not 1,942 as reported. It's a very small difference, but enough to throw out the payouts a little. We'll have the new payouts for your perusal shortly.