"Seat open on table 504," the dealer announced and indeed the four seat was empty after not even three minutes played and 300 big blinds vanished in thin air. "He flopped a boat, and higher boat came on the river," one player said, then asked "you actually know the guy?"

Benjamin Burden replied "yeah, I know him from Utah, funny that we sat next to each other." So who had busted? It was Ryan Coon that likely became the first casualty of many thousands of the day as Ian Searing soared to a double stack right away.