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In the first hand of the day Eric Assadourian raised to 325 out of the small blind following the pre-flop limps from Chad Brown, Lee Nelson and Vanessa Rousso. All three made the call and a flop of fell down.
With action on Assadourian, he fired out 1,200, which was followed by folds from the remaining players in the hand.
As Assadourian tabled he stated, "I just had to make sure I was chip leader" as he raked in the pot to jump out to the early lead.