With only five tournaments running today, the WSOP schedule felt a little light compared to the average six-event days we've had so far this year.

Luckily the action in the events that were being played made up for the missing sixth tournament.

Two events started today in the Amazon Room: Event 32, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, and Event 33, the $10,000 World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better.

The $1,500 NLHE drew 2,304 runners, a bit smaller than this year's other $1,500 events but still a healthy field. Only 166 of them survived to Day 2, with Andy Garza leading the pack at $164,000 in chips.

Among those coming back tomorrow with solid stacks are Courtney Harrington ($95,000), Fabrice Soulier ($70,000), Shawn Buchanan ($65,000), Ray Henson ($57,000), Neil Channing ($48,000) and Phil Hellmuth ($45,000).

Pash the Dutchie to the left-hand shide.

The $10,000 World Championship Stud Hi-Lo drew 261 players, and as of press time there were 144 remaining. Marcel Luske held the chip lead at $55,000 in chips. Joining him in returning tomorrow with lots of chips are Shawn Sheikhan ($47,000), Marco Traniello ($41,000), $1,500 Razz winner Barry Greenstein ($40,000), and Robert Mizrachi ($39,000).

One tournament played down to a final table today, Event 31, the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed. Only 73 of the initial 1,012 runners came back with chips today, and there were more than a few known players in the mix. Recent bracelet winner Max Pescatori, Shannon Shorr, Shankar Pillai, Bill Chen and Bruno Fitoussi all cashed but came up short of the final table.

It looked like former Main Event champ Scotty Nguyen would be at the final, but in a flashback to last year's Main Event he came up just short. On a particularly brutal hand, Nguyen's pocket tens fell to Seth Fischer's 9♥ 7♥.

Team PokerStars pro Dario Minieri comes in as the chip leader for tomorrow's final table with almost 50% more chips than anyone else at the table. He is joined there by Kevin Song, Justin Filtz, John O'Shea, Fischer and Stuart Marshak.

On the final-table front, it was a day of firsts at the WSOP.

Despite his home country's reputation for producing great poker players, Full Tilt Poker pro Rob Hollink's win in the $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em event made him the first player from the Netherlands to win a WSOP bracelet. The $496,931 win here tonight came against tough competition too, as Hollink outlasted the likes of J.C. Tran and Andy Bloch.

Coming in second to Hollink in the LHE World Championship was Jerrod Ankenman, coauthor with two-time bracelet winner Bill Chen of The Mathematics of Poker. This was the second time in the last three years that Ankenman was the runner-up in a Limit Hold'em event; the first time was in the 2006 $3,000 LHE.

While the World Championship LHE was playing out on the ESPN set, a more dramatic confrontation played out on the side table, where longtime pro John Phan outlasted 22-year-old Johnny Neckar to claim his first bracelet in Event 29, the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em.

The heads-up match was one for the ages, lasting nearly seven hours. For a little perspective, consider that even though there were seven players left in the $10,000 LHE event when Phan and Neckar began their match, Hollink emerged victorious before Phan was able to shut his opponent down.

At one point late in the proceedings Phan found himself all-in with A-J against Neckar's K-J, only to find a king on the flop. After blanking the turn, Phan called specifically for the ace of diamonds - and hit it on the river to stay alive.

Following that turn of events, the two shoved all-in blind three times before deciding to slow back down. Phan finally closed the deal about 15 minutes later, taking home $434,789 for his effort.

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