Harry Charcalis has become one of our first eliminations of the day as Alan Cutler's A-Q held against Charcalis' K-Q when all the chips went in on a queen-high flop.
Since we have started today's play with the money bubble already burst, players are beginning to be eliminated like mad from the start. Already, we have heard several "Seat open" calls from various tables. We should lose quite a few players these first couple of levels. With the speed of the eliminations, it will be difficult to catch all of them, so some of the eliminations we will have to wait and receive from Harrah's payout staff. We will update them as we receive them.
The players are taking their seats and unbagging their chips in preparation of the day's play ahead. The mood should be fairly relaxed as everyone is already in the money, so we should see some fearless and aggressive play early on.
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WSOP officials have now released the complete list of seating assignments for all 198 returning players in Event 48, $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Eric Crain begins the day as the chip leader. Here are the seat draws:
(Table 6)
Seat 1: Van Dung Nguyen – 123,900
Seat 2: Sean McCabe – 206,600
Seat 3: Yue Huang – 41,600
Seat 4: Kevin Burroughs – 13,100 Seat 5: Eric Crain – 253,500
Seat 6: Vadim Trincher – 30,100
Seat 7: Jeff Lavelle – 18,600
Seat 8: Denis Limon – 178,000
Seat 9: Nicholas Tsoukalas – 59,800
(Table 7)
Seat 1: Howard Schultz – 71,200
Seat 3: Peter Peterson – 19,800
Seat 4: Eric Sonstegard – 10,600
Seat 5: Jesse McEven – 53,000
Seat 6: Erika Schoenberg – 30,200
Seat 7: Ryan D'Angelo – 112,300 Seat 8: Adam Katz – 98,200
Seat 9: Eric Schneider – 11,800