All in on a flop of , Leo Wolpert shows to the of Arnaud Mattern. The turn and river are and Wolpert doubles through to 25,500. Mattern still has a massive 135,000.
David Einhorn is having a successful Day 1. He appears to have the respect of his current tablemates. In a recent hand, Einhorn raised from middle position to 2,000, and the table quickly folded to the big blind who decided to see the flop, too.
The flop came and the BB checked. Before Einhorn could even grab some chips with which to bet, his opponent mucked. Einhorn currently has 63,500.
You may remember Einhorn for his deep run in the 2006 Main Event, where he finished 18th and donated all of his winnings to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Today he's sporting the same sky blue sweater with handprints of his wife and children he wore during that WSOP run. At the time he explained how you need good hands to win at poker, so he always brings his best hands with him.
Archie "The Greek" Karas has just taken a hit and he's not too happy about it. He recalled the details to us and said that he'd flopped a set of aces on an flop and after some heavy action, his opponent caught a on the turn to make the wheel with his !
He's steaming at the moment but has 17,000 chips to still be in fine shape.
On a flop of Nigel Sutcliffe moved all in with and was called by an opponent holding . Sutcliffe couldn't hit his open-ender on the turn or the river and he hit the rail.
Preflop, Andrew Robl bet 1,100 and was called by two opponents.
On a flop of , the action was checked to Robl, who bet out 2,100. He was called by only one opponent. The turn of the fell, and action was again checked to Robl and again he bet out, this time for 4,500. His opponent then check-raised 10,500. Robl made the call.
On the river card of the , Robel's opponent bet 11,000 and Robl raised all in for 15,050. His opponent made the call.
On a flop of Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier check-called the 3,500 bet of Andre Akkari.
They saw the on the turn and both players checked. The river was the and Grospellier fired out 7,600. Akkari called and was sick to see that his pocket nines had been cracked by the of Grospellier.
A few hands later Akkari was all in with against a dominating and when the board blanked out Akkari was eliminated from the event.
It folded around to the small blind player who raised it up to 5,000 before Moshin Charania reraised to 15,000. The small blind player then moved in for 25,000 total and Charania called.
Charania had to the small blind's .
The board was hitting Charania smack in the face and clean knocking his opponent out.
At table Orange 5, one of the players took out a bag of Swedish Fish candies and passed them around to all the players at the table. Apparently they forgot to offer the dealer one.
Tomorrow's Day 1d will be sponsored by Sesame Street. The theme of the day will be "sharing."