Monday June 20, 2011 : Event 34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em kicked off Sunday and completed the required ten levels of action before officials called it a day with 323 players bagging their chips, led by Lars Bonding, a few thousand ahead of Chad Batista and with lots of talent still in the field.
The event attracted another massive 3,144 registrations, creating a prize pool worth $2.82 million.
Eliminated during the first day's action were Jason Mercier, Randy Lew, Humberto Brenes, Liv Boeree, David Williams,Tom Dwan, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Kathy Liebert, Hoyt Corkins and Amarillo Slim.