[user25067]
I'm pretty sure this crowd has the bracelet on the brain more than the money, but nevertheless, here comes your prizepool and payout information.
96 players entered this event, creating a prizepool of $902,400. 14 places will be paid with first place receiving $279,742 along with a WSOP bracelet.
[user75032]
The Mouth's been doing lots of talking.
Defending champion Mike Matusow is still doing well today. He recently called a raise to 1,100 made by Brian Powell before the small blind, Allan Silberstang, made it 4,000 to go. Powell responded by moving all in for 17,000, a bet that Matusow called! His call quickly chased Silberstang out of the pot.
On the draw, Powell took one. Matusow stood pat and turned over Number Two, 7-6-4-3-2. Powell didn't even look at his draw card; he mucked and left the tournament area.
[user75032]
See you next year, baby.
On one of the final hands before the dinner break, Scotty Nguyen was unceremoniously bounced out of the tournament by Peter Gould. Nguyen opened the action; Gould re-reraised; Nguyen shoved and Gould called.
Nguyen had first action on the draw and elected to stand pat with a 10. Nothing he could have done would have made a difference; Gould stood pat and turned over Number One, 7-5-4-3-2.
[user75032]
If there's one thing that Nikolay Evdakov demonstrated during the 2008 WSOP, it was survival skill. He's going to need to draw on all of that skill after losing a big pot to Carlos Mortensen. Mortensen was all in before the draw, with Evdakov having him covered. Each player drew one card. After the draw, Mortensen showed 6-5-3-2-x, pulling an 8 as his draw card for 8-6. Evdakov showed a slightly better hand 6-4-3-2-x, but pulled a king.
Evdakov is now down to 9,500. Mortensen is back up to the starting stack of 30,000.
[user25067]
Yes, it's true. Phil Hellmuth's Lear Jet arrived safely at McCarran airport and he was whisked away to the Rio to take a seat behind his chip stack, which has been blinded down to about 22,000 over the last four hours.
Hellmuth and Matusow appeared out of what appeared to be the door to the "Secret Chinese Poker Room" where these two spend most of their breaks engaged in said game. The two chatted and power-walked into the Brasilia Room, where Hellmuth looked up at the clock and noticed there were still ten minutes remaining on the dinner break.
"I ran here and we're ten minutes early?" gasped Hellmuth as a fan on the rail pleaded for a photo.
[user75032]
In the first four hours of play tonight, we lost exactly four players. With another four hours to go, and players still relatively deep-stacked, we're not expecting to lose many more before Day 1 concludes.
Therefore our estimate for players returning on Day 2 is set at 75.
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