Nico Schubert opened to 1,800 and John South made the call. William Bateman opted to three-bet to 6,000 and it folded back to Schubert who four-bet to 18,000. South quickly called but Bateman went deep into the tank.
After a few minutes, Bateman ended up folding his cards, revealing 
.
Jack Allen was under the gun and Jean Guillette was in early position. After a series of raises, both players found themselves heads-up for Allen's stack of 56,500.
Jack Allen: 
Jean Guillette: 
Guillette was in terrible shape but picked up backdoor diamonds on the 
flop.
The 
turn killed his diamonds but Guillette did pick up a straight draw.
However, the 
on the river ended his hopes and gave Allen the full double.
DJ MacKinnon was down to just 8,200 chips and the action folded to him in the cutoff. MacKinnon ripped all in and was quickly called by Jeffrey Fuhr in the big blind.
DJ MacKinnon:
Jeffrey Fuhr: 
Despite being dominated, MacKinnon took the lead on the 
flop with a pair of jacks. The 
on the turn gave Fuhr a straight draw but the 
on the river was a brick.
After Isreal Tovar opened to 4,500, Chris Dombrowski back-raised all in for 18,000 and Tovar called, putting Dombrowski at risk.
Chris Dombrowski: 
Israel Tovar: 
Heavily dominated, Tovar was left mainly to king outs, but the flop of 
was not good for him as it improved Dombrowski to a pair of aces. However, Tover could hit a ten for a straight.
Fortunately for Dombrowski, the 
completed the board to award him the pot for an early double up.
Action started in the river with about 35,000 in the pot. Athir Saco looked at a board of 
. Fighting for the large pot, he bet 15,000.
He was up against the table big stack, David Finkel, who had position on him. Finkel slide in a stack of 5,000 chips, enough to cover Saco, about 75,000 effective.
Saco went into the tank for about a minute, eventually relinquishing his cards, showing the face up.
Action was joined on the river as the board read 
. Rodney Pinkham had moved all in to force Omar Ali to put his remaining chips in the middle.
Ali thought for a while before calling and as he did so he stood up at the same time as if expecting what was to come and he was correct as Pinkham showed the 
for a set of jacks which crushed the 
set of Ali.
Veselin Karakitukov opened to 1,600 and after some thinking, Yita Choong three-bet to 5,600 next to him. It folded back to Karakitukov who decided to make the call.
The flop fanned 
and Karakitukov checked to Choong who continued to bet for 7,000. Karakitukov raised it to 21,000 and it was enough to make Choong muck his cards.
Three of the top four stacks from Day 1D will begin their day playing in the black section of the Paris Ballroom.
David Dowdy opened from middle position and was three-bet from late position by Emery Martindale to 5,000. Dowdy made the call.
The flop came out 
. Dowdy check-called a continuation bet of 3,000 from Martindale.
On the turn, Dowdy checked once more. Martindale bet 6,000 to see Dowdy check-call again.
The river fell and both players checked fairly quickly.
Martindale showed 
for a turned top pair and the winner.
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