Ray Qartomy Bags Big on Day 1c of Event #68: $1,111 The Little One for One Drop
There was a total of 2,517 entries in Day 1c of Event #68: $1,111 The Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino. A total of 549 remained at the end of the ten levels of play, moving on to Day 2, along with a prize pool of $2,265,300 that was compiled during this flight.
The person to bag the biggest from Day 1c is Domyo Aqmelli (168,800) according to the official chip counts. Changyang Liu with a whopping 158,000 follows close behind. Christopher Staats (157,800) sits in third, Ray Qartomy follows in fourth position with a very healthy 145,800 in chips. Some other big stacks moving on from this flight include Javier Zarco (140,700), Ely Keysar (132,200), Yaniv Peretz (116,300), Jie Liu (114,400), and Julius Poque (112,700).
A list of notable players to survive on to the second day include Victor Ramdin (91,700), Jonathan Little (90,300), Georgios Karavokyris (66,100), Jeffrey Platt (63,300), Florian Duta (56,100), and Toby Lewis (53,500).
Many players who already own at least one coveted gold WSOP bracelet to make it through include Upeshka De Silva (89,300), Justin Liberto (86,500), Gal Yifrach (52,900) , Brandon Shack-Harris (65,500), Dutch Boyd (37,600), and David Pham (34,400).
Notable players who did not make it to Day 2 are Mike Sexton, Dylan Linde, Will Kassouf, Erik Seidel, Jessica Dawley, Arthur Morris, Lily Kiletto, Barry Greenstein, Matt Affleck, Leo Margets, Patricia Cahill, and Alexander Lakhov.
Day 1c was the last of the three flights that will be moving on, all players that made it through will come back on tomorrow July 10, to play Day 2. The second day will restart at 12pm local time and the total prize pool and payouts will be announced before play begins.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you full coverage of this and every other WSOP event this summer.
, three players had all their chips in the middle and each had around 15,000 with Robert Cicchelli holding slightly more than the others. 
for trips with a straight draw, the second flipped over 
for kings full, and Cicchelli tabled 
for a none other than the best hand in poker, a royal flush. 
river and Cicchelli scooped in the pot.
and Shulman's trip aces took down the the pot, eliminating one opponent and doubling through the other.
