Phil Hellmuth has joined the tournament. He is seated on Table #605 in the Miranda room, with Heidi May on his left. They are also joined by Muskan Sethi, who is to the left of May.
Table #82 has Simon Deadman and Annette Obrestad placed on the same table.
Mikhail Semin, Dylan Linde, and Taylor Paur are seated together on Table #83.
Table #85 features 2009 Main Event Champion Joe Cada, Manig Loeser, and Thomas Lutz.
On Table #89 the board read and Ari Engel bet 400. Luigi Knoppers called. The river completed the board with the and Engel continued with a bet of 650. Knoppers called again. Engel showed and Knoppers mucked his hand.
On Table #90, Vladimir Burstein just folded his hand on the board when his opponent bet 1,800 into a pot of around 1,400.
Former bracelet winners Michael Gagliano and Jennifer Tilly are in the house. Serial casher — 130 and counting in WSOP, WSOP Europe, and WSOP Circuit events — Allen Kessler has also entered.
In the last hand of the first level. Yuliyan Kolev was heads-up in a hand on the turn.
The board read , and following a check, Kolev bet 2,000. After a short pause, the bet secured a fold from his opponent. It is a nice early start for Kolev.
On Table #77, the player in the under-the-gun position raised to 150. Sylvain Loosli called in mid-position. The player in the hijack three-bet to 450. Pedro Oliveira folded to Tobias Peters in the small blind who four-bet to 1,600. The initial raiser and Loosli quickly folded. The hijack called.
The flop came . Peters continued with a bet of 1,700 and his opponent called.
The turn brought the . Peters shoved all in and got a snap-call by the other player who held for a full house. Peters tabled for just two pair and was already standing up from the table. The river was a brick and Peters walked out of the tournament area without cashing in his first tournament of the summer here in Las Vegas.
Meanwhile on Table #78, JJ Liu bet 400 into a pot of around 1,200 on the board and her opponent in the hijack called.
The on the river completed the board and Liu continued with a bet of 500. Again, her opponent called. Liu tabled for two pair, kings and jacks, to win the pot as the hijack mucked his hand.