On a completed board of , the stack of Yudhishter Jaswal was counted for 37,300, as he had doubled through Ryan Ashman when his for a pair of aces ended up as the winning hand. Ashman was left with around 10,000 in chips while Jaswal vaulted into a near double stack.
Within one hour, the field has already reached 3,864 entries, an increase of more than 900 entries since the event started, and a queue of more than 50 players is waiting for a seat assignment in the Amazon room. Among those in line are Michal Lubas and Marcin Chmielewski.
New faces in the field in Amazon Gold are COLOSSUS finalist Norson Saho and DJ MacKinnon on the same table, and David Yan faces Wendy Freedman, among others, in the Amazon purple section.
Greg Geller kicked things off with a 700 open and Marco Guibert flat called. On his left a player three-bet to 3,000 and both Geller and Guibert came along.
The flop was the and Geller and Guibert checked, with the preflop aggressor continuing for 2,000. Only Guibert called and it was heads up on to the turn. Guibert check-called a 9,000 barrel this time and with a chunky pot in the middle, the dealer laid a on the river.
When Guibert checked again, his opponent made it 11,200 to get to showdown but Guibert wasn't done and moved all in over the top. The player snap-folded and showed in the process. Guibert responded by turning over for the bluff.
With plenty of chips in the pot and the completed board showing , Adam Demersseman bet half the pot for 11,000 and Jason Latourette called. Demersseman flipped over for flopped trips and Latourette mucked aces.
The table includes one further early big stack, as Lars Hole has already doubled up.
On the table of Tsugunari Toma, a bigger pot was brewing when the turn showed . Eugene Ji led for 1,700 in the hijack and Joshua Bennett on the button raised to 5,200. Ji wasted little time before reraising to 11,700 and Bennett called. On the river, Ji bet 20,000 and Bennett tank-folded.
Latifa Guennas can normally be found at tournaments in Europe to make sure the events are running smoothly behind the scenes and has made the trip to Las Vegas to take a shot at a gold bracelet at the poker tables. Also in the field are George McDonald, John Perry and Chad Campbell.
Michael Huber has started well into the day and already amassed a solid profit. One table over, Adrian Apmann is seated and fellow WSOP bracelet winner Jeremy Wien was also spotted in the Purple section.