Another round of payouts from the cage - all of these players have picked up $3,499 in cold, hard cash, which is sure to heat up pretty quickly here in the Nevada desert!
Davidi Kitai was all in against Ravi Raghavan holding the . Raghavan held the . Ali Eslami held , but folded it preflop. The board ran out and Raghavan busted Kitai.
Time for another updated list of players who have made some bank today. All these players have taken home $3,214 in prize money - we'll have the next bracket up for you shortly.
We missed how the betting went but Kartheeharan Nagarajan ended up all in preflop for his last 37,000 and Sida Yuen called.
Nagarajan:
Yuen:
The flop of gave Yuen a set of eights but also gave Nagaranjan a gutshot straight draw. The turn and river were the and which couldn't help Nagaranjan and he was sent to the rail.
Players have returned from their first break of the day. Right now there are 122 players remaining in the field and each one is guaranteed at least $3,810.
The remaining 122 players have now been sent on a 20-minute break, although there was a murmur through the room when the tournament supervisor made the announcement.
"Players, you are on a one-hour break - sorry, 20-minute break!" Dang it, we were hoping to grab a late lunch!
2009 APPT Macau Main Event champion Dermot Blain has just been eliminated from the tournament only minutes before the break, courtesy of Paul Loh.
All the money was in the middle before the flop. Blain had shipped the last of his stack into the middle with , but he failed to improve on the board. No luck of the Irish today.