Folds to Aaron Pinson in the small and he makes standard shove vs Thomas Karle in the big. Tommy has about 200K in bb20K after he reluctantly finds a fold. He plays enough tournaments here to know that we call Ace-Ten off the Maryland Live pre-flop nuts, but I guess he just wasn’t feeling it. Aaron doesn’t show but claims he had two face cards.
Before I can walk away from the table, dealer pushes 1.5 BBs back to the player all-in pre w/ A9o vs KQs. Dramatic run-out of KT7 A J. The 1.5 BBs don’t survive and we’re down to 26 players. 8-max, so just a couple eliminations from three tables. Thirty minutes levels for Day 2. Still 21 mins of bb20K to play, 30 more of bb25K before taking a color-up break.