Welcome to Day 2 of Event #60: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. After 11 levels of play yesterday, 297 of the original 2,541 runners will be returning to fight for the 270 paid positions and ultimately the first-place prize of $609,017. There will excitement all around The Rio today as Day 1a of The Main Event is scheduled to begin at noon. The players will need to keep their eyes on the prize because there is still much work for them to do to get to the winner's circle in this event.
Ryan Hughes leads the field coming into the day with 172,100 and closely followed by Joseph Froehle (144,200), Malek Kalayi (143,000), Nate Silver (134,600) and Lauren Kling (123,200). Other notable players to watch are Loni Harwood (75,900), Calvin Anderson (75,800), Melanie Weisner (61,300), Rupert Elder (50,300), Hiren Patel (49,800), Jeff Madsen (25,600), Bill Chen (22,200), Bryan Micon (17,200) and Jeremy Ausmus (11,100).
Players return to the felt at 1:00 p.m. local time in the Brasilia Room. Stay with PokerNews as we provide live updates from the tournament floor throughout the day. In the meantime, get caught with all the happenings here at the WSOP with Lynn Gilmartin who has your July 6th Update.
The player in the cutoff raised to 4,000 and Bill Chen raised to 10,000 from the big blind. Action back on the cutoff and he 3-bet shoved and Chen insta-called and was at risk.
Ben Yu moved all in and was quickly called by Justin McWilliams.
Yu:
McWilliams:
McWilliams had Yu dominated going to the flop and Yu was at risk of elimination. The board ran out and the the king kicker of McWilliams was good enough to send Yu to the rail.
We don't know the exact betting action, but we do know that Yuval Bronshtein got the rest of his 300,000 chip stack in preflop holding . Unfortunately for him, he ran square into the of Cy Williams. The board ran down , and Bronshtein headed for the payout desk, while Williams upped his stack to over 500,000.
We did not see the preflop action but did see that the of Hughes was in bad shape against the of Daniel Cascado. The board came giving some extra outs to Hughes, but they would not be realized when the turn and river was dealt. Hughes left the tournament in 21st place.
The action folded to Hiren Patel in the small blind who raised to 40,000. Henry Lu, the big blind, reraised to 84,000 and it was back on Patel. Patel 4-bet to 172,000 and Lu 5-bet shoved. Patel called and the hands were tabled.
Patel:
Lu:
Lu was behind and was the player at risk as they headed to the flop. It came and gave Patel a set. The turn gave Patel quads and Lu was drawing dead. To add a bit of salt to the wound, a came on the river and Lu was sent to the rail in 18th place.
Aleksejs Meless raised it up to 50,000 in middle position, leaving himself just 75,000 behind. Yongshuo Zheng reraised to 100,000, and when it got back to Meless, he moved all in for just 25,000 more. Zheng quickly called.
Meless:
Zheng:
Meless was in rough shape versus the big pair of Zheng, and he never had a sweat, as the board ran down . After winning that hand, Zheng is now up to 860,000.
and Chen doubled.
flop already dealt. Calvin Anderson led for 8,500 and Mario Sanchez made the call.
turn and Sanchez bet 18,000. Anderson answered with a raise to 55,000 and Sanchez called.
river and Sanchez called and tabled 
and the the king kicker of McWilliams was good enough to send Yu to the rail.
and Cascado added to his chip collection.
of Daniel Cascado. The board came 
turn and 
river was dealt. Hughes left the tournament in 21st place.
