$500 Double Stack NLH (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight D Players Remaining:  88 of 702

When the field reached 89 players, hand-for-hand play began on the Money Bubble. But it went on for a while without anyone busting out.

Chipleader Phil Hernz continued to build his stack even higher, and he was up over 600,000 as the bubble continued.

Eventually, player in the small blind open-shoved all in for more than 150K, and Tonia Williams called all in from the big blind for 79,000. At that point, they had to wait for the action to complete at the other nine tables before they could turn over their cards.

After a couple of minutes of waiting, they finally got to reveal their hole cards — Williams turned over , and the player in the small blind turned over .

The board came , and there was little drama as Williams was well ahead the entire way, clinching the victory on the turn to double up in chips.

Tonia Williams  –  166,000  (21 bb)

Shortly after that, somebody busted at another table, and Williams was in the money along with 87 of her fellow players, guaranteed at least $800 each, but hoping for a larger chunk of the prizepool that is already worth more than $1.1 million (with two more starting flights running tomorrow).

Action will continue this evening until there are 50 players remaining (7% of this field), and they will bag up their chips as they advance to Day 2, which begins Sunday at 2:00 pm.