Nikhil Gera just landed two solid hands to push him among the Day 1B chip leaders.

First, on a board Gera went over the top of a 10,000 chip bet from Mark Bloomberg putting in 25,000 to take the hand away and move to 207,000. He then got into a three-way pot on the next hand and pulled off an elimination to move to 259,500 (104 bb).

We’re down to 37 players left as we countdown toward the end of Day 1B.