Further to the discussions of Greg Raymer's weight, it looks like a bet may have been agreed to between Forrest, Greenstein and/or Lisandro. Raymer said he won't take his clothes off except for his hat and shoes, which Forrest replies "Yeah that's fine, we don't need to see you naked!".
Raymer has also requested that unless they take his word on the weight, he'll require a fee to stand on the scales!
Annie Duke has just arrived at todays event. She arrives complete with a set of ultimate bet hats for the people at her table. It doesn't appear anyone has accepted her generosity.
Also, it appears that they tried to start the table 9 handed. Of course, that isn't proper in a stud game so the 9th player was put on another table.
Ted Forrest and Barry Greenstein are talking it up on the table regarding the weight-loss prop bet with Mike Matusow which Forrest ended up losing.
Greg Raymer chips into the conversation and asks Forrest to take a guess at Raymer's current weight since it has never been published. Forrest and Lisandro excitedly try to work out some terms for a prop bet on guessing Raymer's weight, but eventually the negotiations fell through.
Archie "The Greek" Karas, the man famous for taking $50 and running it up to $40,000,000, just to lose it all back is currently playing in today's $10,000 buy-in Stud World Championship. Stay tuned to Pokernews.com to find out.
Tom Sexton wrote a series of articles about this living legend of Las Vegas. If you would like to read more about Karas, click here to check out Sexton's series of articles regarding "The Greek".
Greg Raymer was holding X-X- when he was dealt the face up. The floor was called over and it was determined that Raymer's opponent must also get his last card face up. Raymer bet out on the last street and his opponent instantly folded. The dealer's mistake likely cost Raymer 400 on the river.
Daniel Negreanu fired the whole way showing and was called down by Carlos Mortensen's . Negreanu fired 7th street in the dark and Mortensen made the call as Negreanu showed ()() for rolled up queens to take down a nice early pot.
You cannot look around in this field without seeing a pro at almost every table. Some tables are a little more stacked than others. Some interesting tables include:
Table 1: David Benyamine, Shaun Sheikhan, John Hennigan
Table 2: Jeffrey Lisandro, Greg Raymer
Table 10: Marcel Luske, David Williams
Table 11: Minh Ly, Daniel Negreanu, Carlos Mortensen
Table 12: David Levi, Jerry Buss
Table 13: Mel Judah, Michael Keiner
Today's field is going to be a small but high quality field, as you would expect for a $10,000 Championship Event. We are expecting it to be full of big name pros with very few soft spots in the field.
Already today we have spotted the likes of Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Carlos Mortensen, Greg Raymer, Cyndy Violette, David Singer, Alex Kravchenko, Eli Elezra, Marcel Luske, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Andy Black, David Williams, Men Nguyen, Jeff Lisandro and the defending champion from last year's $5,000 Stud Event, Chris Reslock.