Kyle Montgomery will not be repeating his second-place finish in this same event from last year. According to Matt Glantz, Montgomery played really well but Glantz got very lucky and advances to tomorrow.
Andy Philachack started off his shootout table by almost immediately doubling his chip stack. He managed to get heads-up with John Andrus and, eventually, win the heads-up match to earn a spot in Day 2.
Aaron Mermelstein won his table and John Richards bested Joe Kuether heads-up to move on.
Linglin Zeng finally won her table after the longest heads-up match of the day so far. Finally, she got all in with pocket tens and held against the of her opponent to bag for Day 2.
He joins Dimitar Danchev, Rellie Sigua, Oliver Fink, Lee Wai Kait in the Day 2 field.
Olivier Busquet had a key double up with when his full house bested his opponent's trip eights to take control of their heads-up match. Shortly after, Busquet finished off his opponent to win the match.
All 50 players advancing to tomorrow will be guaranteed a payout of at least $6,407. The 10 players who make the final table will be taking home more than that, with first place paying $229,923.
The board read and Kyle Bowker had a bet of 9,500 in front of him. Tim Reilly was all in for 38,100 total and Bowker went into the tank. After several minutes, Bowker called.
Reilly:
Bowker:
Bowker's aces up were best and he advanced to tomorrow.