2010 World Series of Poker

Event #2: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q5
Prize
$1,559,046
Event Info
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$5,568,000
Entries
116
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
30,000

Five Levels Down

That's the end of Day 1 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Event #2 - $50,000 Poker Player's Championship. It was a day of late-registration confusion, a day of marked cards, a day of few eliminations and a day of odd blind levels.

116 players each came up with $50,000 to play this event. Among the busted today: Dan Shak, Tom Dwan, Andrew Brown, Marc Karam, Greg Mueller and Brian Townsend. Shak was the first one to go, when his set of nines ran into the nut straight in PLO. Dwan, the internet sensation, soon followed suit.

The overnight chip leader appears to be Erik Sagstrom, who bagged 329,100 chips. He's followed by David Oppenheim's 313,800. It appeared that no other player accumulated a stack bigger than 300,000 by the end of the night.

Play resumes tomorrow at 3pm local time. PokerNews will be there.

Until then, you can find us at the bar.

Official Day 1 Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Erik Sagstrom se
Erik Sagstrom
329,100
David Oppenheim us
David Oppenheim
313,800
Poker Hall of Famer
Doyle Brunson us
Doyle Brunson
269,200
99,200
99,200
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Edwin Ting
Edwin Ting
258,900
108,900
108,900
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
257,300
2,300
2,300
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once
Joseph Serock us
Joseph Serock
253,900
-11,100
-11,100
WSOP 1X Winner
Steve Billirakis us
Steve Billirakis
251,900
-8,100
-8,100
WSOP 2X Winner
John Cernuto us
John Cernuto
251,400
-13,600
-13,600
WSOP 3X Winner
StakeKings
Vladimir Schmelev ru
Vladimir Schmelev
243,700
93,700
93,700
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
240,100
Michael Mizrachi us
Michael Mizrachi
230,100
45,100
45,100
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 5X Winner
Chau Giang us
Chau Giang
225,700
55,700
55,700
WSOP 3X Winner
Dario Minieri it
Dario Minieri
222,600
12,600
12,600
Josef Monro
Josef Monro
222,400
72,400
72,400
David "Bakes" Baker us
David "Bakes" Baker
221,900
46,900
46,900
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 3X Winner
David Benyamine fr
David Benyamine
221,300
1,300
1,300
WSOP 1X Winner
Tuan Le us
Tuan Le
214,500
54,500
54,500
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
213,400
37,400
37,400
Philip Galfond
Philip Galfond
211,100
91,100
91,100
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
210,400
35,400
35,400
WSOP 2X Winner
Josh Arieh us
Josh Arieh
207,500
-32,500
-32,500
$25K Fantasy
Team Lucky
WSOP 6X Winner
Cole South us
Cole South
206,700
21,700
21,700
Huck Seed us
Huck Seed
204,500
24,500
24,500
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 4X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Dan Kelly us
Dan Kelly
203,800
-19,200
-19,200
Mike Gorodinsky us
Mike Gorodinsky
200,200
50,200
50,200
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 3X Winner

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Event #2: $50,000 Poker Player's Championship

Day 1 Completed

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