John Podobnik, a player from Niagara Falls, Canada, is sitting in seat two at Jack McClelland's table. Sitting in middle position, action was folded to him and he went all in for his last 1,650 chips. The player to his immediate left called and the remaining players folded.
Podobnik flipped over and wasn't happy to see his opponent's . However, when the flop brought , things were looking up for our Canadian. The hand finished with the on the turn and the on the river, leaving Podobnik with just over twice as many chips as he had before the hand.
Ramy Zakaria has been spotted at Table 17. Last year, Zakaria took a big stack deep into the tournament, eventually finishing 34th for a $2,045 payday. Zakaria is poised for another deep run as his table's big stack with 22,000.
The numbers are in folks, a total of 721 players entered the first event at the 2010 World Series of Poker. Although that number is slightly down from last years 866, it still created a first-place prize worth $71,424! That's quite the payday for a buy-in of just $500.
Getting to the money will earn you $914 and that means you've made it down to the final 72 players. A total prizepool of $324,450 will be awarded and here's how the final table payouts will look.
This year PokerNews is getting a list of all registered players on Day 1's directly from the official Harrah's feed. The good news? We will have a full list of all the players that entered the event just a few hours after it starts. The bad news? It's just impossible for PokerNews to update a large percentage of the Day 1 starters based on the sheer sizes of the fields. We'll be doing our best and updating the page with all the counts we have, meaning the top 10 chip counts to the right of your page should always be fairly accurate.
When we import the chip counts directly from Harrah's at the end of the day, it will automatically bust players who have no chips and we'll have a much firmer grasp on updating all the counts on Day 2's.
We realize this may cause some confusion, but it was important for both PokerNews and Harrah's to have full player lists in the system on Day 1.
George Sumpter flagged us over to his table moments ago saying, "You might want to get this one."
With a limp in front, Sumpter shoved for 1,300 from middle position and an opponent on the button re-shoved for over 3,000. The small blind folded, and Matthew Wilmot, who was sitting in the big blind, stood up and tanked for a few minutes. Finally, Wilmot mucked his cards and and the early-position limper did as well.
Sumpter tabled and was racing against his opponent's .
"I folded ," Wilmot informed the table.
The flop changed nothing, but the on the turn gave Sumpter the lead. The river brought the and Sumpter doubled to over 3,000 in chips.
As Sumpter stacked his new chips, Wilmot happily returned to his seat. He dodged a bullet that would have certainly crippled his chip stack.
Over at Jack McClelland's table, the button and both blinds saw a limped flop of . All players checked to the turn which came the . The player in the small blind led out for 500 and was called by McClelland. After the button folded, the hit the river and the small blind bet 1,200. McClelland reraised to 3,200, prompting his opponent to go into the tank. After a minute of so, the player folded and McClelland increase his stack to over 9,000.
With the fairly fast structure in this event, players are hitting the rail left and right. Unlike most events where we will know many more names in the field, this event is hard to track with who busts and that's why we are displaying that there is still nearly all of the field left. Actually, the field is down to under 400 players already and it's only the fourth level of play. Just keep that in mind and bear with us. As the day moves on, we're picking up more and more names to track.
From early position, Gerald Klick raised before Cindy Aly flatted. A player in middle position reraised and then a player in late position tanked and folded, later claiming to have held queens. When action got back to Klick, he moved all in. Aly folded after agonizing over her decision for a little while and then the next player that had reraised made the call.
Klick held two aces and was up against the pocket tens from his opponent. After the board ran out , Klick's aces improved to make a full house and he doubled up to roughly 5,000 chips.
Players are now on a 20 minute break. Level Five will begin when they return with 150-300 blinds and a 25 ante. The tournament screens indicate there are 320 players remaining.
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and wasn't happy to see his opponent's 
. However, when the flop brought 
, things were looking up for our Canadian. The hand finished with the 
on the turn and the 
on the river, leaving Podobnik with just over twice as many chips as he had before the hand.
and was racing against his opponent's 
.
," Wilmot informed the table.
flop changed nothing, but the 
on the turn gave Sumpter the lead. The river brought the 
and Sumpter doubled to over 3,000 in chips.
. The player in the small blind led out for 500 and was called by McClelland. After the button folded, the 
hit the river and the small blind bet 1,200. McClelland reraised to 3,200, prompting his opponent to go into the tank. After a minute of so, the player folded and McClelland increase his stack to over 9,000.
