Official Day 1 Chip Counts
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #26: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed
Día 1 completado
Day 1 and our first ten levels of the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed are officially in the books. After starting the day with 1,278 players we are down to just 189 players vying for the bracelet and enormous $689,739 first prize. Of those 189, Tyler Cornell leads the way with 172,600 and is followed closely by Jean-Robert Bellande with 144,700. With 126 getting paid, it won't take too long for the money bubble to burst tomorrow and the real chip leaders to set themselves apart from the field.
With these large No Limit Hold'em tournaments it's seldom to have lots of big names at the top, especially at the end of Day 1, but we have plenty of them going through to Day 2. Of those include Jean-Robert Bellande (144,700) who is second in chips, Tuan Le (126,000), Mohsin Charnia (126,000), Olivier Busquet (109,100) Chris Moorman (90,000) Dan O'Brien (87,200), Ayaz Mahmood (86,000), Lex Veldhuis (82,300), Melanie Weisner (80,000), David Baker (80,000), and Jake Cody (70,000)
We also plenty of big names who didn't make it to Day 2 including Jennifer Tilly, Cody Slaughbaugh, Tom Dwan, Vanessa Selbst, David Williams, Faraz Jaka, Liv Boeree, Phil Laak, Tony Dunst, Gavin Griffin, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Vanessa Rousso, Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown, Sam Stein, Greg Raymer, Phil Hellmuth, Shannon Shorr, Andrew Lichtenberger, Joseph Cheong,, Jeffery Papola, Dwyte Pilgrim, Dan Kelly, Lauren Kling and more.
Our chip leaders to end the day are Tyler Cornell (172,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (144,700), Victor Shuchleib (137,900), Steve Barshak (132,700), and Alexander Fitzgerald (132,600)
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Tyler Cornell just won a huge pot to put him at 172,000 and at the top of our counts.
On a flop of 

an early position player checked, Cornell checked, and a late position player bet out for 3,600, the early position player called, Cornell raised it up to 10,200, the late position player folded, the early position player re-raised all in and Cornell called tabling 
for top two pair. The all in player just continued to scream "Man Oh Man Oh Man Oh Man" and wouldn't flip over his cards. Eventually they were flipped over and showed 
The initial raiser in the pot said that he also had 

The board ran out 
and Cornell scored the knockout and the big chip stack.
Ryan Olisar opened up action with a raise of 1,500 preflop and found a caller when the player from the button called and Dan O'Brien called from the big blind. Before O'Brien called he stated that he "was only calling so I would write a hand about him."
The flop ran out 

. O'Brien checked and Olisar bet 3,000. The player from the button and O'Brien called. The
fell on the turn and all the players checked to the river. When the
hit on the river O'Brien led out with a bet of 11,800. Olisar made the call and the player on the button tanked for a bit until he folded 
face up.
O'Brien flipped up the 
for the flush. The only thing that could of been better was if he took down the pot wearing his bright purple shades.
O'Brien sits with around 87,000 chips in front of him.
The tournament clock has reached the ten minute mark and tournament officials have announced four more hands before they bag and tag.
Lex Veldhuis opened from under the gun for 1,600 and the player on his left called. Action folded all the way around and the flop came
. Veldhuis bet 2,200 and was called. The turn came
, Veldhuis checked and the UTG+1 player bet 4,200. Veldhuis looked at his opponent and tossed his cards in the muck, still with 75,000 in his stack.
Mohsin Charania has been quietly near the top of our chip counts all day but just won a big all in preflop with 
vs 
to knock out Jon Eaton and leave him with 110,00
Charania is now just one of a handful of players with over 100,000 and he is primed to make a deep run.
Chris Moorman has chipped up significantly since we saw him last. He was in a hand against the small blind with a board of
. Moorman bet 3,600 after a check and the small blind called. The turn came
, the small blind checked and Moorman bet 8,700. The small blind tanked, staring at Moorman for a read, who kept his usual stare straight down at the table. The small blind folded and Moorman dragged the pot, chipping up to around 90,000.
Cards are back in the air for the last level of the night. The green 25 chips have been taken off the table during the small break.