After a raise under the gun by Steven Hibbs, Steve Mayer moved all in for 240,000 in the cutoff. Hibbs called to put him at risk.

Steve Mayer:
Steven Hibbs:

The board came , keeping Mayer's queens ahead for a double-up.

Just a couple of hands later at the same table, Miguel Medrano was all in from the small blind with Thomas Giglio slightly covering him in early position.

Miguel Medrano:
Thomas Giglio:

This board came , bringing Medrano an ace on the river to give him a double-up as well.

Steve Mayer	510,000
Steven Hibbs	500,000	-75,000
Miguel Medramo	480,000
Thomas Giglio	80,000	-380,000

John Purdy moved his last 160,000 in from the button and got called by Frazier Tedford in the small blind.

John Purdy:
Frazier Tedford:

Purdy would need help to crack Tedford's kings, and he got a lot of it with the flop, giving him trips.

The board kept getting better for Purdy as well, as it completed with the turn and river, giving him quads to earn a sizeable double-up

Frazier Tedford	415,000	-190,000
John Purdy	350,000	350,000

With the bubble just four eliminations away, play has slowed significantly with the money and a spot in Day 2 within sight.

Case in point, a recent pot saw a pair of late position limps along with the small blind before Paul Chamberlain checked his big blind.

On the flop, Chamberlain bet 30,000 and got a trio of folds to take down the pot.

Paul Chamberlain

500,000

30,000

Picking action up on the flop in a raised pot, the board read . Phil Hoff bet 35,000 from the small blind and got called by Matt McGuire on the button.

The turn brought the and Hoff moved all in for about 130,000.

"Oh don't do that, I've got the straight," said McGuire as he happily called and showed his .

Hoff could only show for two pair, and after the fell on the river, the defending champion's day was done, with the final 29 players all in the money and onto Day 2.

Matt McGuire	630,000	445,000
Phil Hoff	0	-260,000

A trio of quick eliminations has thinned the field to 30.

The next elimination will send the final 29 players on to Day 2 and into the money.

After a raise under the gun by Steven Hibbs, Steve Mayer moved all in for 240,000 in the cutoff. Hibbs called to put him at risk.

Steve Mayer:
Steven Hibbs:

The board came , keeping Mayer's queens ahead for a double-up.

Just a couple of hands later at the same table, Miguel Medrano was all in from the small blind with Thomas Giglio slightly covering him in early position.

Miguel Medrano:
Thomas Giglio:

This board came , bringing Medrano an ace on the river to give him a double-up as well.

Steve Mayer	510,000
Steven Hibbs	500,000	-75,000
Miguel Medramo	480,000
Thomas Giglio	80,000	-380,000

Just 40 players remain as the next break of the day has arrived.

With 29 players making the money and advancing to Day 2, this may well be the final break of the day, as 11 eliminations in two hours is well within the realm of possibility.

While he calls himself an "Average Joe" (or Average Bob) in the poker world, Brooklyn native Bob Carswell, representing New York Free Poker has quite the poker tale to tell.

Diagnosed with dyslexia when he was a child, Carswell found a love of mind games and math, discovering poker at a later age which fell perfectly into his wheelhouse.

"I still can't spell worth a s***," joked Carswell, telling PokerNews that the math and psychology of poker is what drew him to the game about 15 years ago.

Carswell made his first trip to the World Series of Poker this summer, originally intending to play the Main Event as a bucket list item. Instead, he bought into several smaller events, including his first, the $500 Salute to Warriors event.

He fired two bullets in the tournament, bricking both, but said it was the greatest time of his life. That high would quickly be topped though by winning a Daily Deepstack the very next day for over $40,000!

Carswell still chose not to play the Main Event last summer, but says he'll definitely be playing it in 2024, and in the meantime loves playing in the Bar Poker Open.

John Purdy moved his last 160,000 in from the button and got called by Frazier Tedford in the small blind.

John Purdy:
Frazier Tedford:

Purdy would need help to crack Tedford's kings, and he got a lot of it with the flop, giving him trips.

The board kept getting better for Purdy as well, as it completed with the turn and river, giving him quads to earn a sizeable double-up

Frazier Tedford	415,000	-190,000
John Purdy	350,000	350,000

With the bubble just four eliminations away, play has slowed significantly with the money and a spot in Day 2 within sight.

Case in point, a recent pot saw a pair of late position limps along with the small blind before Paul Chamberlain checked his big blind.

On the flop, Chamberlain bet 30,000 and got a trio of folds to take down the pot.

Paul Chamberlain

500,000

30,000

With about 50,000 in the middle on a flop of , Jodie Wunderlich moved all in for just over 100,000 in the hijack. After some thought, she got called by Thomas Giglio in the cutoff.

Jodie Wunderlich:
Thomas Giglio:

Wunderlich had the best of it with a pair of fives, but she'd need to fade Giglio's straight and flush draws.

The turn immediately hit Giglio to give him the winning flush, with the river pouring a bit of salt into Wunderlich's wounds as she was eliminated from the tournament.

Thomas Giglio	460,000	140,000
Jodie Wunderlich	0	-253,000