Dinner Break; Broderick Leading, DiVella and Ezzie Closing
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The remaining players are heading on a 90-minute dinner break. Play will resume at approximately 8:25 p.m. (PDT).
The third level of Day 1a of the Main Event was a big level as many players ascended up and down the leaderboard. Raymond Ezzie was about to hit the 100k mark before his opponent's four-bet jam for 60bb with 
spiked against Ezzie's 
.
Over on the feature table as Eric Worre continued to amass chips, high stakes player Bill Perkins found a double when he was all in with 
against 
on a 
flop. Perkins spiked the 
on the turn and doubled through with quads back to nearly starting stack.
Bruno Fitoussi, Sean Jazayeri and Alberto Sapiano would all hit the rail, while Steven Gee's run at making three consecutive deep Main Event runs would come to an end when his 
couldn't outdraw his opponent's 
. After Gee took 9th in 2012, he backed it up with a 24th place in 2013, but unfortunately it ends there as Gee's performance in those years rivals Dan Harrington and Grey Raymer's performances back in the early 2000's.
However the story of the level would be Nick DiVella's rise to the top of the leaderboard as the first player to reach the six-figure club. Earlier in the day DiVella took a sizeable pot off Mike Matusow to move to roughly 42,000 before slowly building up to around the 60,000-chip mark. Then with a bet on the river holding a set, DiVella scooped a pot to send him to 100,225 before ending the level with 93,900. However it would be Jon Broderick who won - as quoted by his tabled - "won 40 or 50 pots" to end the level with 140,075 in chips.
Go get some grub and see you all shortly.