The board was completed to read and there was a pot of around 70,000 in the middle.

Jorge "JJ" Avala moved all in for 53,000 to turn the screws to his opponent who folded after about a minute of thinking it over.

Avala flashed the as his opponent showed the to show that Avala had forced the better hand to hit the muck.

Lindsay Jeffreson called in the small blind where Ryan Surdi was forced all in and at risk in the big blind.

Ryan Surdi:
Lindsay Jeffreson:

The board ran out and the sixes full were good enough for Jeffreson to eliminate last year's second place finisher Surdi from the tournament.

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Lindsay Jeffreson	195,000	92,000
Ryan Surdi	0	0

Action was on the turn, with the board reading . From the button, Nicholas Sims had bet 28,000 and was faced with a jam from Gony Kamal who plunged in his 84,000.

Sims considered it for quite some time, stewing it over. Eventually he folded and Kamal gathered the pot.

Gony Kamal	143,000
Nicholas Sims	127,000	-46,000

The clock has ticked down to 25 players very quickly as the field is just one player away from the end of the night.

The flop read with three players in a hand. The first player to act bet 5,000, big stack Nicholas Sims called. Jeffrey Weinberg came over the top and jammed all in for about 55,000. The first player folded and Sims called.

Jeffrey Weinberg:
Nicholas Sims:

Weinberg was ahead and would need to fade the straight. He did far more than fade as the turn came the to sew it up for him right there with quad fours to make the river meaningless and give him an important double while Sims was left to rue what could have been a huge stack in his clutches.

Nicholas Sims	173,000	130,000
Jeffrey Weinberg	112,000

The players have gone on what will likely be their final 15-minute break of the night.

54th-Garron Walker
53rd-Christopher Harris
52nd-Jimmy Stolebarger
51st-Benjamin Green
50th-Jose Salas
49th-Mark Hendrix
48th-
47th-Chuck Clayton
46th-Elliot Dunner

Garron Walker	0
Christopher Harris	0
Jimmy Stolebarger	0
Benjamin Green	0	-210,000
Jose Salas	0
Mark Hendrix	0	-121,000
Chuck Clayton	0
Elliot Dunner	0

Donell Richards, who had been as low as three big blinds not that long ago was all in and at risk preflop as he looked to continue some upward momentum.

Donell Richards:
Covering opponent:

Help came for Richards in the form of a king on the flop as it came . The turn gave his opponent a diamond draw with the but the river was a blank to secure a double up for Richards.

Action was picked up on the flop in a pot that was raised preflop between Tom Heinlein in middle position and Thomas Boaz in the cutoff.

After Heinlein bet on the flop of , Boaz moved all in for 182,000 total and Heinlein called.

Thomas Boaz:
Tom Heinlein:

The board ran out as to keep Heinlein's two pair ahead of Boaz and eliminate him from the tournament.

Tom Heinlein	655,000
Thomas Boaz	0	-330,000

After a player called in late position, Lindsay Jeffreson moved all in from the hijack for 46,000 after being interviewed by Erin Webster. Action folded back around to the player in late position who called.

Lindsay Jeffreson:
Opponent:

The board ran out and the ace-jack held up for Jeffreson to double, cementing what Webster referred to as "interview karma."

"Let this be a lesson guys," Webster joked as Jeffreson raked in the pot.

There was a pot of 28,000 in the middle and the board read . Three players were in the hand as Patricia Rosa bet 5,000 from middle position.

The first player folded. Kenneth Kergo was in early position and considered the small river bet for quite some time before he eventually folded to send the pot over to Rosa.

Kenneth Kergo	55,000	7,000
Patricia Rosa	43,000	15,000

David Charlemagne was spotted as a big stack in Day 1b as he was on the river with an opponent and bet 10,000 on a board of .

His opponent folded her hand after a few moments and Charlemagne added even more chips to his stack which is likely the largest of Day 1b thus far.

David Charlemagne

210,000

210,000

Joshua Mordenti called in early position which saw action fold around to another player in the cutoff who raised to 38,000. Roger Cook called on the button and Mordenti called the raise as well.

The flop of saw action check around to Cook who moved all in for 20,000 and both Mordenti and the cutoff called.

Both players checked down the runout.

Roger Cook:
Cutoff:
Joshua Mordenti:

The set of sixes on the turn ensured the pot would go the way of Mordenti while Roger Cook of the Kontenders club was eliminated on the money bubble