Ryan Laplante's seat was empty and his tablemates filled in the details about what happened to him.
He ran 
into 
preflop, and was unable to improve sending him out of the tournament.
With the late registration period over, Laplante will have to re-enter tomorrow to have a shot to make day 2.
The Pavilion room's tables are breaking rapidly but the one player with the clear chip lead of the remaining 12 tables is Michael Woodworth who has well over 300,000
The players have returned from their 75 minute dinner break and cards are back in the air.
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
Level 8 has come to an end and players are headed onto a 75-minute dinner break.
The remaining players are scheduled to play another three 60-minute levels tonight before bagging.
Many tables have broken in the Pavilion, most are being sent into Brasilia
Pierre Calamusa went all in for his last 10,000 with 
and was called in the big blind by 
. The flop came queen high and no help came to Calamusa as he left the tournament area.
Action picked up on a flop of 
with 16,000 in the pot already between James Romero in the small blind and Darren Elias on the button.
Romero bet 5,500 which Elias called. The turn came a 
and Elias folded to Romero when he went all-in.
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