Event #5: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #5: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,824,200
Entries
2,092
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Almost Go Time
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We're less than 10 minutes away from the start of Event No. 5, the first $1,500 no-limit hold'em event of the summer. Two quarters of the Pavilion are filling with players, and we're expecting many of the casualties from the first two days of Event No. 3 to take a shot at the Series' second no-limit hold'em event.
Last year's winner was Panayote "Pete" Vilandos. We'll see if he turns up in an effort to take back-to-back bracelets.
Registration will remain open until the start of level three. The plan is to play through 10 levels today and then pick things up at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Mr. Jack Effel just said the magical words, let's play some poker!
Notables in the Field
There's no shortage of big names in today's event. So far we've been able to spot:
Tiffany Michelle
Matt Ross
Kathy Liebert
Shaun Deeb
Daniel Negreanu
Scott Clements
Jason Somerville
Bill Chen
Marco Traniello
Justin Bonomo
Allan Cunningham
Jerry Yang
Perry Friendman
Chad Brown
Jeff WIlliams
Team PokerStars Pros in The House
Here's a list of the Team PokerStars Pro members we've spotted so far.
Daniel Negreanu
Jason Mercier
Humberto Brenes
Dario Minieri
Lex Veldhuis
Barry Greenstein
Bill Chen
JP Kelly
Gavin Griffin
Hevad Khan
Chad Brown
Table of Death
We've come across our first table of death, which can be found at Table 99.
Table Of Death #1
Seat 1 - Andreas Hoivold
Seat 3 - Jerry Yang
Seat 8 - Sorrel Mizzi
Empty Seat = Jerry Yang Out
We didn't see the action, but Jerry's Yang seat is now vacant and the player on Seat 7 has a double stack making for a very short day for the 2007 WSOP Main Event winner.
More Big Names Pepper the Field
As the tables fill up we're starting to see more recognizable faces (and online screen names) sitting down to play, including:
Alan Smurfit
Andrew Lichtenberg
Chris "Moorman1" Moorman
David "The Maven" Chicotsky
Vitaly Lunkin
Joe Serock
Steve O'Dwyer
Gavin Smith
Scott Seiver
Matt Ross
Jason Mercier
Justin Young
Dario Minieri
Erica Schoenberg
Sabyl Cohen
Humberto Brenes
Dan Shak
Michael Gracz in the Lead
The board showed 
and 5,000 chips were in the pot when Gracz went all in for about 7,000 chips on the button. Gracz got called and turned up the 
for a set of queens on the river. His opponent mucked and Gracz moved himself up to an early chip lead with 20,000 chips.