WPT Cambodia Championship ($3,500)

Daniel Neilson wakes up with T♣ T♦ on the button and goes into a preflop battle against Peteris Enders who has Q♣ Q♦ . The chips all go in on Neilson's five-bet shove. With the board landing 2♦ 9♠ 5♠ 6♣ K♦ , Neilson gets up and leaves the tournament area.

On a board 5♣ J♦ A♠ 6♣ and 82,000 in the pot, Karan Sitlani bet 42,000, Daniel Neilson calls then they check the river 8♠ . Neilson shows 8♣ which is good as Sitlani mucks.

In the second hand of hand-for-hand mode, Daniel Neilson calls the button shove by Brian Green who is the player at risk for 146,000.

"I didn't look at my cards before, otherwise I would have tried to slow roll," Neilson jokes. They had already exposed the cards briefly before turning them over again.

Green's A♥ K♥ are up against A♣ K♦ and the J♣ 2♥ 2♠ 7♦ 7♥ board ensures a split pot.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 18 players with at least 600K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

Reigning WPT Player of the Year Yunkyu Song is all-in for 126,500 with A♥ A♣ against the A♦ K♦ of Daniel Neilson. The T♣ 7♣ 2♦ 6♦ 4♦

board provides the unlikely flush and Song departs.

While down from his peak, Neilson is still among the chip leaders.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 16 players with at least 500K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

The completed board shows A♦ Q♥ 4♦ 6♦ J♣ and Erik Rozhynskyi awaits his fate as he is already all-in. Daniel Neilson bets 130,000 and then faces the all-in of Jesus Espinosa Fernandez, after which he takes a couple of seconds before the call.

The Spaniard shows his T♦ 8♦ for the flush and Rozhynskyi is beaten with his 8♣ 7♣ . However, Neilson rolls over the K♦ 5♦ for the nut flush and that sends two players packing.

"Why didn't you snap call?" Yunkyu Song asks and Neilson grins back "because it's more fun this way" before sipping on his glass of red wine.

There were 750 entries in the WPT Cambodia Championship, but only 242 have made it to Day 2, where we expect to burst the Money Bubble.

The total prizepool is worth $2,400,750, and the final 94 players will finish in the money. Here is the full list of payouts:

Here is the seat draw for Day 2, along with their official chip counts:

Day 2 begins at 11:30 am, so stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT Cambodia Championship.

* First-place amount includes the winner's $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

There were 403 entries on Day 1B of the WPT Cambodia Championship, creating a total field of 750 entries and generating a prizepool worth $2,400,750, crushing the $1.5 million guarantee.

The final 94 players will finish in the money, and here are the payouts:

The full list of official chip counts will be released by the casino overnight, but in the meantime, here's a preview of the top of the leaderboard:

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Friday) at 11:30 am, and the field is scheduled to play five90-minutes levels or until the Money Bubble bursts, whichever takes longer. Stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT Cambodia Championship.

* First-place amount includes the winner's $10,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

With the final board showing 9♣ 7♣ 6♥ 9♦ 2♠ and about 240K already in the pot, Jerwin Pasco checks from the small blind, Daniel Neilson moves all in from the cutoff for 129,000, and Pasco goes into the tank.

Pasco is in the tank for a long time before he folds, and Neilson takes the pot to build his stack up to about 370,000 in chips.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 12 players with at least 200K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

Several players over on table 43 have already increased their stack significantly including Wendy Freedman, Daniel Neilson, Timon Prill and Jerwin Pasco. The latter two are involved in a big pot of more than 50,000 to the 6♣ 5♠ 4♠ Q♥ 9♦ river on which Pasco bets 17,000.

Kiyoung Kim sigh-folds and Prill also sends his cards into the muck. Kim mentions that he folded pocket kings, while Prill was chasing a flush and missed.

On the last hand at his table, Daniel Neilson opens 5000, Joshua Gebissa makes it 18,000, Neilson four-bets 52,000, Gebissa takes it to 90,000, then Neilson says "I don't like it but I'm all in", and Gebissa snap-calls. Both players have about even stacks, roughly 10 bb difference.

It's a flip with Neilson showing Q♦ Q♠ and Gebissa with A♣ K♣ . The flop and turn are blank then an ace finds the river. Gebissa ships it and soars to the top of the counts while Neilson speeds off.

A scan of the field during the break turned up 12 players with at least 150K in chips, plus one more knocking on the door to create an unofficial leaderboard:

With 13,400 in the middle to the J♠ 7♠ 5♥ 9♣ turn, Daniel Neilson bets 11,000 and Shmuel Bechor calls. Neilson then bets the 5♦ river for 28,100 with a single T-100 chip behind and Bechor sigh-calls.

Neilson reveals A♦ Q♦ and Bechor has that beat with the K♠ K♥ .

"I thought I was gonna be the first one to bust, but you might leave before me," Ankit Ahuja jokes with a short stack on the same table.

"No, you will still be first," Neilson replies, set to be forced all-in the very next hand.

Junghyun An then raises to 800 in the first hand after sitting down and Ahuja jams for the last 5,000, the initial raiser Rahul Bhatia folds and An calls.

Ankit Ahuja: A♥ 8♥

Daniel Neilson: Q♣ 6♥

Junghyun An: A♣ A♦

The A♠ Q♠ 4♠ 5♥ J♠ board knocks out two players at once near the end of level one.

"What did you have for breakfast?" another player jokes to An.

The field is now up to more than 35 entries and among those seated right away are Peter Kiem, Siarhei Chudapal, Kunal Patni, Bas de Laat, Travis Endersby, Daniel Neilson, Daniel Charlton and Vyacheslan Shin. More notables are expected to follow suit with plenty of late registration remaining.