The Brasilia room is filling up fast and the chips are already flying here in first level. John Hennigan is off to a red hot start and has quickly chipped up to 70,000.
Cliff Josephy has been active early and he has already chipped up to over 60,000.
More and more players joined the field in Brasilia Room, including the defending champion of The Little One for One Drop - $1,000 +111 No-Limit Hold'em, Adrian Moreno, final tabler in last year's Main Event Nine Benjamin Pollack and the 2016 winner of $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, David Peters.
Georgios Sotiropoulos was first to act in a battle of the blinds and had built a pot of about 47,000 with his opponent. The board read 
and Sotiropoulos was deep in the tank when we arrived. After staring at Brady Hinnegan for a couple of minutes, Sotiropoulos bet 14,000. Hinnegan didn't take long to call, but when he did, Sotiropoulos revealed 
for trips and dragged a massive early pot.
Fatima Moreira de Melo sat down in the Main Event and is already battling for pots. She checked it down with her opponent Masatoshi Arai, and when the 
board was on the table.
Arai showed 
. Moreira de Melo showed 
and tried to claim the pot by joking that her hand was suited, which caused the table to laugh.
The action was opened with a raise to 350 by the player under the gun, and Davidi Kitai called in middle position before Justin Bond, in the hijack, three-bet to 1,550. The initial raiser folded and Kitai called.
On the 
flop, Kitai check-called a 1,000 bet from Bond and on the 
turn both players checked.
The river came the 
, and Kitai check-called a 2,400 bet. Bond tabled 
for ace-high, and Kitai took the pot with 
.
There had been a raise and a three-bet before the action got to Mike Watson in the big blind. He four-bet to 4,500 and the small blind called.
The flop came 
and the small blind checked. Watson continued for 3,000 and the small blind called.
The 
hit the turn and the small blind checked. Watson bet again, 7,500 this time, and his opponent called.
The river brought the and both players checked. The small blind flipped over 
but Watson tabled 
to take the pot with top two pair.
Davidi Kitai and Daniel Negreanu are seated at the same table and were already involved in a hand together.
The flop read and it had checked to Kitai on the button. He had three opponents but wasn't scared to fire out 750. Everybody folded to Negreanu and he thought about it for a second, before also sending his cards to the muck.
The action folded to Johann Schmitt in the hijack and he raised to 400. Kevin Calenzo re-raised to 1,500 from the cutoff and it folded back to Schmitt who made it 4,000.
Calenzo called and they went heads-up to the 
flop. Schmitt continued with a bet of 3,500 and Calenzo called. The turn was the 
and Schmitt fired out a bet of 8,000. Calenzo thought it over for about 30-seconds and folded and Schmitt took the pot.
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