Here are the top four players in terms of chip count at the end of day one:

1. Barry Shulman - 176,600
2. Lee Markholdt - 176,000
3. Joe Beevers - 172,000
4. Jay Heimowitz - 125,000

Day one of the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event draws to a close, with 45 players remaining. The last two players eliminated were Freddy Deeb and Phi Nguyen. The rest of the players bagged and tagged their chips, and they'll return tomorrow at 2:00 pm to play down to the final six who will appear at the TV Final Table. Check back with CardPlayer.com overnight for official chip counts and players remaining.
Update: Bellagio did not do final chip counts or create a list of remaining players. We will try to get that information as soon as possible once the event restarts at 2:00 pm PST Saturday.

There are 47 players remaining in the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event, and they'll continue play until they're down to the final 45, who will then return tomorrow at 2:00 pm to play down to the final six. Here are the most recent eliminations, in order:
Al Stonum, Bill Gazes, Maria Stern, Jeff Shulman, Meng La, and Chris Tsiprailidis.

With 230 players entering the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event, there are now 53 left. Play will continue tonight until only 45 players remain, and then return tomorrow at 2:00 pm to play down to the final six for the TV Final Table. Tune into CardPlayer.com tomorrow afternoon for complete coverage of the event.

Here are the latest players eliminated from the PPT tournament:
Scott Fischman, John Esposito, David Chiu, Barry Greenstein, Tony Ma, Farzad Bonyadi, and Jim Meehan.

Tony Ma had to leave the PPT at 3:00 pm so he could dominate the final table of the $5,000 no-limit hold'em event, winning $435,980. He returned to the PPT just in time to avoid being blinded off, and pushed all in with 8-2 offsuit, and he promptly lost to A-5 suited. You've never seen anyone so happy to bust out of a major tournament.

Update on PPT Event - While waiting for the final table in the $5,000 event to end, the following players were eliminated from the PPT event (this period of time includes a one-hour dinner break):
James Hoeppner, Alice Kim, Layne Flack, Wendeen Eolis, Padraig Parkinson, Michael Mizrachi, Jim McManus, Mickey Appleman, Tom McEvoy, Daniel Negreanu, Gary Lent, Robert Williamson, and Richard Tatalovich.

Update on PPT Event - The Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event is still underway, and these players have been eliminated in the following order:
Dan Alspach, T.J. Cloutier, Eric Brenes, Alex Brenes, Linda Johnson, Tony Cousineau, Greg Raymer, Martin de Knijff, Dewey Tomko, Casey Kastle, Jerri Thomas, Greg Schwartz, Chris Hinchcliffe, Richard Grijalva, John Juanda, Vince Van Patten, and Yosh Nakano.

Update on PPT Event - These players have been eliminated from the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event, in the following order:
Tom Franklin, Billy Duarte, Tuna Lund, Allen Cunningham, Tony Bloom, Maureen Feduniak, Prahlad Friedman, Carl McKelvey, Mike Caro, Erik Seidel, Cyndy Violette, Mike Gracz, Barbara Enright, Cecelia Reyes, David Grey, Tom Jacobs, David Apostolico, Stan Goldstein, Scotty Nguyen, Juha Helppi, Robert Turner, and Chris Bigler.

PPT Update -- The number of players entered in the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event is now official at 230. The following players were eliminated since the last update, in the following order:
Eddy Kleid, Lee Watkinson, David Levi, Marsha Waggoner, Robert Varkonyi, Ralph Perry, Mimi Tran, John Murphy, Randy Holland, Kevin Song, Berry Johnston, Mike Matusow, Tom Franklin, and Billy Duarte.

These players were eliminated from the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event, in the following order:
Young Phan, Thomas "Thunder" Keller, Russ Hamilton, Scott Wilson, Huck Seed, Puggy Pearson, Robert Hoff, Arnold Spee, Hoyt Corkins, John Phan, Can Kim Hua, Alan Krell, Bob Feduniak, Michaelis "Mick" Jacobs, Phil Hellmuth, Mark Gregorich, John D'Agostino, O'Neil Longson, Bill McBeath, Harry Thomas, David Williams, Carlos Mortensen, Paul Darden, Noli Francisco, Russell Rosenblum, and Toto Leonidas.