Pablo Fernandez Campo Bags Big in THE MARATHON Going into Day 2
Day 1 of the five-day Event #24: $2,620 THE MARATHON No-Limit Hold'em has come to an end at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino with 706 progressing forward. 1,479 players descended across the Brasilia and Pavillion rooms and created an initial prize pool worth $3,487,482. Late registration in this event is open until the end of level eight on Tuesday, June 12 (approx. 3:30 p.m.), the total number of entrants and prize pool information is set to be finalized at the point.
Pablo Fernandez Campo came through the six 100-minute levels as one of the big stacks with 230,900. Campo finished the day as the eventual runner-up, behind Joshua Smith (234,800). Sanjay Dulabh (230,200) rounded out the top three and also greatly expanded on the special 26,200 starting stack.
A host of familiar faces were among the 591 players who sat down to play the first hand at 11:00 a.m. this morning including Cliff Josephy, Simon Deadman, Samantha Cohen, Marcel Vonk and Maria Konnikova. Bestselling writer turned poker pro, Konnikova, enjoyed early success, which included turning a full house when behind to top two pair on the flop, and continued consistently throughout the day to bag up 81,100 chips.
Other well-known players who will be returning tomorrow include Olivier Busquets (148,000), Ben Heath (142,500),Scotty Nguyen (133,000), Gaelle Baumann (131,600), Faraz Jaka (119,000), Andre Akkari (68,500), Martin Jacobson (63,200), Jesse Sylvia (53,700), Kristen Bicknell (51,400), Cate Hall (47,900), Dzmitry Urbanovich (47,100) and the aforementioned Josephy (42,600).
However, there were a few who inevitably were eliminated during the action such as Kenny Hallaert, three-time bracelet winner Dutch Boyd, fellow bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly, Thomas Muehloecker and 9th place finisher in this event last year, Maurice Hawkins.
Action will resume at noon local time on Tuesday, June, 12 with the blinds at 400/800/100 ante and play will finish after six 100-minute levels or when the tournament reaches the money, whatever scenario comes latest. The official prize pool and payout information will be announced on Day 2 shortly after late registration has closed. PokerNews will be back with all the action, so be sure to check out the continued coverage.
and both players checked. Weissman check-called a bet of 5,700 on the 
turn. 
river and this time Ramdin fired out 20,000. Weissman thought about it for a couple of minutes and he eventually called to see Ramdin holding 
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turn and Cohen called a bet of 5,500 after the cutoff player had folded. 
and the button player continued for 1,800 when the action was checked to him. Only Konnikova called. 
and she once again check-called, this time for 4,650, which left the button with just one 5,000 chip behind him. 
, Konnikova put one single 5,000 chip into the middle, and the button went into the tank. It took a couple of minutes for him to act but he did make the call, and he allowed the dealer to muck his hand when Konnikova turned over 
. After he his initial bet of 1,600, his opponent made it 5,000. Busquet sat on his decision before moving all in and got snap-called. 
for two pair, and Ramdin mucked.
when newly registered Jennifer Tilly bet 1,500 from the cutoff and James Moore raised to 4,500 from the button. Truyen Nguyen was in the big blind and announced all in for around 16,000. 
didn't change the result as all three players chopped the pot.
for a full house and scooped the pot.