Here are some of the notable players seated at the same table.
Table 6: Ram Vaswani, Alan Smurfit
Table 5: Bill Chen, Noah Boeken
Table 4: David Baker, Jason Sagle
Table 3: Tony Cousineau, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
Table 2: Isabelle Mercier, Joe Tehan
Joe Tehan raised from the cutoff seat. The button and big blind called and the three saw a flop of . Action checked to Tehan who bet, and again both players called. The turn came the . The big blind checked, Tehan bet, the button folded, and the big blind made the call. The river came a . Tehan fired again but was not called. He took down the pot without showing and is now sitting on 31,500 chips.
Odette Tramblay and Andre Boyer are married and have both managed to win their tables and advance to Round 2. Although there are only eight tables, they are each seated at different ones.
Marek Kolk, who happens to work for Pokernews, was the last player to win his table and advance to Round 2. Due to scheduling, Round 2 had a mandatory start time of 9 p.m. PDT, even though Marek's win didn't occur until 8:55 p.m. PDT. Marek let us know that he ran as quickly as he could to the kitchen, where he purchased a king-sized Twix candy bar, ate as quickly as he could, then ran back to the Amazon room. Marek is seated at Table 1 and hopes that his dinner break was enough to hold him over.