Picking up the action on a 
board, Jeff Banghart was faced with a decision after his opponent bet 3,600. Banghart mulled it over and called, relieved to see his opponent instantly muck.
Banghart showed 
and is chipping up during Level 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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27,000
7,000
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7,000 |
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We suppose we should fill you in on the schedule since we hinted at it earlier.
We're into the second level of this Day 1a flight, and each level is 40 minutes long. We'll play nine levels for this flight with a break after every three levels. We get our dinner break after the flight concludes at about 5:30pm, then we're back at 7:00pm to do it all over again.
Day 1 will be in the bag around 1:30 tomorrow morning.
Last year's champion John Riordan is among those that have joined the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
We have another notable set to join our Main Event field, but Lee Childs has some business to take care of first.
At the poker-unfriendly hour of 10:00 this morning, the $1,000 buy-in Event #9 restarted, and there are still seven players left playing at the featured table right in front of us. Childs is among them, though he's the shortest stack at the table with less than 10bb.
He tells us he's antsy to join the Main Event, but first things first. Mr. Childs.
The last name "Wade" is royalty in South Florida, and we've got one member of the family with us for this Main Event. It's not Miami Heat point guard Dwyane Wade or Senegal's President, Abdoulaye Wade. Neither of those men have won a WSOP bracelet before, but Tristan Wade has.
Wade, who's known by the handle "Cre8ive", has won just shy of $1 million in his poker career, and the bulk of that came last fall in Cannes, France. He won the €3,000 Shootout event at the WSOPE, earning more than a quarter-million dollars and that priceless piece of jewelry. Wade is on the heels of a long poker vacation in Asia and the Pacific, but he's found fit to come back home and play this WSOPC Main Event as he looks to add a Circuit ring to his WSOP trophy case.
He's joined a table up in the top section of the room that includes Chad Brown Pro.
We finally got a moment to run downstairs and across the building to check on the tables down in the poker room. There are about 12 tables set up down there, and we scrounged up a few more notables as we walked between the ropes.
Most notably, Table 37 sticks out as the toughest one in the room. Chris Bell was the first face we recognized, and the North Carolinian has come down south to find himself in Seat 1 there. We scanned all the way around the table without recognizing anyone else through the first seven seats. Seat 8 is a familiar face, though. It's Mike Minetti, the 13th-place finisher in this event last year. Minetti is also known for his runner-up finish in the 2010 WSOP Seniors' Event. Right next to him in the nine seat is Ryan Fair who finished 31st in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Minetti and Fair are both locals who play a lot of poker around this area, and they no doubt are familiar with each others' tendencies as they've drawn adjoining seats for Day 1a.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
We've got players in three separate areas of the building, and the seats are filling in nicely. Still, we've got a pair of tables beginning heads-up, and another two that are starting three-handed.
There's a list of notables right below this post, and we'd expect that list to grow as the rest of the seats become occupied.
Here is who we have spotted thus far:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
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20,000 | |
We've just ticked up over 350 players registered for Day 1a of this WSOPC Pam Beach. That's just about on pace with last year's first flight, but based on the numbers from the previous events here this week, we'd expect to see a bit of on increase over last year's field size of 712.
