[Removed:510] has already had 7 cashes so far this series and narrowly missed out on his first final table, when he finished in 12th place in Event 54: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Tag Team. The Moldovan has already chipped up in the Main Event before the bell has been rung on Level 1.
Action folded to WSOP bracelet winner Craig Varnell on the button, and he raised to 500.
The big blind defended, and both players checked the 
flop.
The turn fell the 
and the big blind led for 800. Varnell folded, and the big blind collected the pot.
Frederik Salari bet 600 from the small blind facing an 
flop, and Alexander Sofillas raised to 1,800 in the big blind. Salari called.
The 
turn was checked by Salari, and Sofillas bet 1,600. Salari called again.
On the 
river, Salari led out for 3,000. Sofillas gave it a few moments thought, then folded. Salari has one of the biggest stacks on Day 1b so far.
The cutoff raised to 2,000, Nikita Kupchin called on the button, and Mark Dimas reraised to 8,000 on the small blind. The cutoff folded, and Kupchin made the call.
The flop came 
, and Dimas down bet for 6,000. Kupchin called, and the turn came . Dimas bet again for 12,000, once again getting the call from Kupchin.
The river came out 
, and Dimas slowed down with a check. Kupchin checked back, Dimas announced pocket aces and indeed showed 
. Kupchin mucked.
"If you move all in on the turn I have to call," Dimas said as he raked in the pot. He's now near the 100,000 mark.
On the tail end of a pot between Robert Schulz and Kevin Rivest, the former bet 2,000 with the board showing 
and Rivest called. Schulz tabled 
for a missed gutshot and Rivest won the pot with 
.
The very next hand, Daniel Wilson raised the button to 500 and Alex Goulder in the small blind three-bet to 2,100, which Wilson called. On a 
flop, Goulder checked and released his cards into the muck when facing a bet of 2,000 by Wilson.
Mina Greco limped the button and Augie Martinho completed the small blind as Christopher Pericola checked his option in the big.
The 
board checked through to the river where Martinho bet 600 and both Pericola and Greco folded.
Everett Carlton limped in on the button, and Michael Mather raised to 600 from the small blind. Carlton called.
Mather bet 600 on the 
flop, and Carlton called.
Both players checked the 
turn, and Mather bet 1,000 when the fell on the river. Carlton called, but said, "Nice hand," and mucked upon seeing Mather's 
.
Jeremy Abernathy opened to 600 from the cutoff and received calls from Eric Kurtzman on the button and Anthony Spinella in the big blind.
The flop came 
and Spinella checked. Abernathy made a continuation-bet of 1,100 and it was good to get Kurtzman to fold. Spinella called and the turn came . Spinella checked and Abernathy fired for 2,500, getting another call from Spinella.
The river was and Spinella checked again. Abernathy bet 6,000 and Spinella thought for a while before making the call.
Abernathy quickly tabled 
, having turned the nut flush, and took down the pot.
In a three-bet pot, Mark Estes bet 2,000 from the small blind on a 
flop. Linglin Zeng called in the hijack, and the turn came out the .
Estes kept up the aggression with a 5,000 bet, and Zeng made the fold. The pot brought Estes back up over the starting stack while Zeng drops below that threshold with Level 1 winding down.
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