Short-stacked Nicholas Gwynn got it all in preflop with [7s6d] and was up against the [As8h] of Chun Law. Unfortunately for Gwynn, the runout failed to earn him the double and he was sent to the rail in 11th place.
With his elimination, the surviving 10 players have bagged up to return for Day 2 on Monday as follows:
Greg Merko unintentionally put all but one of his chips into the middle and Evan Cornish had just called.
Once the flop hit [9s8s3d], the last of the chips got into the pot and the hands were tabled.
Merkow: [Ad7d]
Cornish: [AsAh]
Merkow would need a lot of help to stay alive, but the runout of [4s8d] failed to do so and he was eliminated.
Cornish - 720,000
After only two rounds of hand-for-hand, Songpyng Twu was eliminated on the money bubble by Richard Lamb.
