Riess Delivering Knock-Out Blows to POY Contenders

Ryan Riess has to be Brandon Shack-Harris' favorite player, at least today. That's because the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event champ has singlehandedly eliminated both Daniel Negreanu and George Danzer, the two players closest to Shack-Harris in the 2014 WSOP Player of the Year race.

Danzer was the most recent to fall, and it happened after he called a raise from Riess and the two saw a flop of . Both players checked, a hit the turn, and Riess led out for 125. Danzer raised it to 400, Riess three-bet to 2,500, and Danzer called off his remaining chips with for top pair. Unfortunately for him, he was drawing dead as Riess had made a set with . With that, Danzer, who survived Day 1a with a stack of 24,625, was eliminated from Day 1b. We expect he'll look to accumulate more chips in the Day 1c flight later this evening.