Last year it was the 3rd most popular event of the World Series of Poker with 2998 entrants (after the Main Event and Event 49, which was also a $1.500 No-Limit Hold’em-event), and this year it’s gonna do at least that. With a massive 3929 entrants this year, it was gonna be one helluva grind, for a total of $5,363,085 with 378 players in the money. Day 1 was devided in day 1A (on Saturday) and 1B (on Sunday).
Day 1A
With lots of familiar faces amongst the contesters we’ve got underway at day 1A. Amonst the 2048 people showing up today: Ted Forrest, Freddy Deeb, Erik Seidel, Kido Pham, "Miami" John Cernuto, David Sklansky, Greg Raymer, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Vanessa Rousso, T.J. Cloutier, Tim Phan, Phil Ivey, Gavin Smith, Billy Baxter and lots of Liquidpoker-members. Hevad Khan was amongst those, and one of the first to get into trouble, when he got in a 3-way all-in with   , having both others covered, them showing   and   . With the board bringing      . Not much after that he got all-in with his remaining 500 chips on pocket 9’s. Some other guy woke up with kings and Hevad was out.
Unfortunately, JohnnyCosmo didn’t do much better, as we can read on his WSOP blog. His KK didn’t hold up against some fish (“NMcNasty” claims to be it  ) who check-raises all-in with his OESD. The draw is made a straight on the turn and Cosmo is out of there. Funniest moment of the year must be the SB in Cosmo’s blog:
| | So how awesome was my starting table? The 2nd hand at my table, action gets folded around to the small blind. The guy who is in the big blind IS NOT FUCKING THERE. Small blind folds. /epic fail. |
Not much other news about LP-members. If you’ve got more news, feel free to share it. Lots of people gone busted this day, amongst those: (take a deep breath) Dutch Boyd, Mimi Tran, Jeff Shulman, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Madsen, Bill Edler, Amir Vahedi, David Sklansky, Billy Baxter, Vanessa Rousso, Johnny Chan, Phil Ivey, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Greg Raymer, Ted Forrest, Jeffrey Lisandro, Erik Seidel, Jean-Robert Bellande, David Grey and Bill Gazes (made it in one breath?).
This means that 224 players, out of 2048 starting the day, will continue to day 2, which will play later today. They will be joined by the players surviving day 1B.
Day 1B
Not as much as day 1A, but still a very decent turnout of 1881 players. That means the 4000-player mark hasn’t been beaten yet by a “non-Main Event-event” so maybe that’s for the later $1500 NLH-events  . Still a very decent line-up on day 1B, containing: Lee Watkinson, Andy Black, John Juanda, Joe Sebok, Carlos Mortensen, Jonathan Little, Barny Boatman, Dario Minieri, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Jerry Yang and lots more. Jerry Yang, being the last to survive on last years Main Event, wanted to be the first to bust out at day 1B so it seems. When he flopped a set with his K7o on a board, he ran into pocket sixes for a full house by the other guy. No improvement and Yang was down to 50 chips! He tripled and doubled a few times before getting all-in with a gutshot on the flop. He got called with bottom pair and he was out of there! “2nd Most Famous Donk winning the WSOP”, Jamie Gold, got caught with his pants down, after moving allin with   on a    board. He got called by a guy with aces, and the man who wants to be the best bluffer alive was going back home.
James "Mig.com" Mackey wasn’t very lucky when he got raised by Barry Greenstein. After moving all-in with AKo, Barry turned over the worst possible hand: pocket aces. No improvement for Mig and he’s busted.
Phil Hellmuth arrived late as usual, this time 2.5 hours late, which costed him about 40% of his stack. Not much later he got busted out. NSFW:+ Show Spoiler +
Of course he was in good company getting busted: Michael Mizrachi, Allen Cunningham, Dario Minieri, Marcel Luske (after flopping a straight with J9, he got beat by another guy flopping the nut straight with AJ), Roland de Wolf, Anna Wroblewski, Scotty Nguyen, John Juanda, Jennifer Tilly, Erick Lindgren, Eli Elezra, Kimberly Lansing, Humberto Brenes, Andy Black, David Pham, Jennifer Harman, Rolf Slotboom, Joe Sebok and Clonie Gowen all went home empty-handed, amongst lots of others of course. 223 of the 1881 starting the day will be back for day 2. Added to the 224 of day 1B that means we still have 447 players remaining, 378 of them will go home with some more money. Chipcounts will be as follows:
David Bach 115,400
Alan Puzantyan 111,400
David Robertson 109,100
Ryan D'Angelo 105,800
Frank Sinopoli 103,900
Pat White 92,300
Shane Schleger 89,000
Henry Tran 80,300
John Carlson 80,200
Grant Hinkle 77,800 Ryan Daut currently has a stack of 34.600, with average chipcount being just over 26.000 (with blinds 500/1000). A full list of chipcounts of those still in is to be found here.
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