Ed Reid and Jim Pifer both dwindled down to less than two big blinds and were both all in. They were called by Leo Kaplan on the button and Rob Greene in the small blind.
Kaplan and Greene checked down a board reading and Green tabled two red nines to take down the pot as Reid and Pifer both held ace high.
Dan Wagner is chasing another title after taking down the 2016 Fall Poker Classic Main Event late last year. He leads the remaining ten players at the official final table for this opening event.
Jim Girdlestone raised to 42,000 from early position and Mike Rellinger called out of the big blind.
The flop came and Rellinger got his chips in the middle, getting called by Girdlestone.
Girdlestone:
Rellinger:
The turn was the and the river was the , giving Girdlestone a double up and leaving Rellinger short.
Rellinger tripled up from 25,000 chips the next hand but ran his into Dietrich Kuhlmann's pocket kings in the hand after that, sending him home in 13th place.