Gary Lucci has been an event champion here multiple times, but at least on Day 1A things didn’t go his way and he was eliminated in back-to-back hands on table 36. Another perennial champion, Ruben Perceval, placed the final straw, but Vivo L took a big portion of Gary’s stack to put everything in motion.
In the first hand, preflop action was raised to 4,400 (over 10x the bb at the time) and there were 3 to the flop – an inflated pot if there ever was one. The flop came 
and the three players checked around. On the turn 
, Vivo bet 4,750 and Gary called. The 3rd player got out of the way and the river came 
. Vivo checked and Gary came out firing: 7,500. Vivo called and showed down just 
– but it was more than enough to beat Gary’s Ace-Jack high.
With about half of his chips pushed across the table, Gary was in another hand, this time against Ruben, and by the time the river was dealt – the board read 
– Ruben had just over 10K left, which he slid to the middle to signal that he was all in. Gary was clearly not happy with the state of things, and had the smaller stack – but he made the call.
Ruben: 
Gary: 
Play has now moved into level 7, meaning that registration is now closed with a total of 112 entries on Day 1A including 14 re-entries.
