Drake Espenlaub shoved his last 70,000 with from the hijack and was called by the surging Joseph Lamkin holding . Everyone else got out of the way.

The board ran out clean for Lamkin to eliminate Espenlaub.

With that elimination, there are only 14 players left, which is 12% of the 120 entries, so play was halted about half way through Level 15.

Day 1B will begin at 3pm Saturday, which is sure to be another action-packed day. Official chip counts from Day 1A will be available soon.