Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day 1d Started
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1d
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$68,798,600
Entries
7,319
Level
41
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
200,000
Day 1d - The Last Starting Day
Welcome back to the Rio for another starting day for the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. It's been one heck of a ride so far during the first three starting days and one can only imagine the excitement that today will bring.
The fourth and final starting day to the Main Event is always the biggest. It's jam-packed with the biggest names from wall to wall and PokerNews is here to let you know all about it. Many players enjoy waiting to the last day so that they don't have a big break in the action before they play Day 2. Others enjoy taking some time off before the Main Event grind kicks in. You can expect that both the Amazon Room and the Pavilion will be stuffed with players.
The chip leaders from each day so far are Corwin Cole (228,200) from Day 1a, James Danielson (201,050) from Day 1b and Mathieu Sauriol (169,900) from Day 1c. The leaders tend to rise as the starting fields get bigger given that there are more players and more chips in play, but the opposite is true this year up until this point. Maybe today will have a different story.
Play kicks off at 12:00 p.m., so stay tuned for all the action from the floor!
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle and Play!
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He's a Florida Gator, Dallas Cowboy, brother of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., three-time Super Bowl champion, the NFL's all-time leader rusher and a future member of the NFL Hall of Fame?
Still can't guess?
Emmitt Smith kicked off today's action with, "Shuffle and play" rather than the traditional, "Shuffle up and deal." We'll give him a pass this time, but his next false start will be a five-yard penalty.
How 'bout them Cowboys?
Turning Blue
Here's a list of the notables in the Blue section of the Amazon Room today.
Steven Paul
Blair Hinkle
Grant Hinkle
Marco Traniello
Steve Zolotow
Antoine Saout
Allen Cunningham
Phil Ivey
David Benyamine
John Juanda
Bernard Lee
Anh Van Nguyen
Jeffrey Lisandro
Jen Harman
Featuring...
Although the Orange section is somewhat light on notable players, we do boast a star-studded feature table with Vanessa Rousso and Brian Townsend locking horns.
Sandwiched between the two is Paul Jackson, who you may recall from the 2005 Monte Carlo Millions where he became the victim of an endless sequence of bluffs with Phil Ivey in... "that hand".
But despite being famous in the US for losing a hand, Jackson is a great player in his own right, and has been a staple of the UK poker scene for many years. He is also renowned as one of the UK's best ever online players, in particular during the early years of online poker where he tore up the MTTs under the moniker ActionJack.
Ivey Splashing Round Already
Walking past Phil Ivey's table, we found him calling a 650-chip bet on a 
flop into a pot of around 1,000.
A player on the button also made the call before all three players checked the 
on the turn before the dealer dropped the 
on the river.
The flop aggressor fired out 1,125 and Ivey splashed the pot with a call as the third player released.
Ivey tapped the table at the sight of his opponent's 
and slipped to 28,300 in the process.
Pavilion Notables
Here are just a few of the names we've spotted in the Pavilion Room:
Jonathan Little
Humberto Brenes
Barry Greenstein
Shawn Sheikhan
Ylon Schwartz
Jack Ury (97 years old)
Jason Mercier
Shannon Elizabeth
Matt Brady
Joe Serock
Sorel Mizzi
Bruce Buffer
Eddie Sabat
Eric Mizrachi
Eric Blair
More Pavilion Peeps
Just one corner of the Pavilion is currently home to a number of notable players. So far we've spotted:
Vanessa Selbst
Trishelle Cannatella
Nichoel Peppe
Eric Buchman
Noah Boeken
Andy Bloch
Kelly Kim
Hevad Khan
Allen Bari
Zach Clark
Jason Potter
Josh Arieh
It's Like Seville
...That's how many famous oranges there are here today.
Yes indeed, the orange section of the Amazon Room is full of impressive names. As well as our pro-heavy feature table, we have a variety of familiar faces in here. German pro George Danzer is here, as is Irish Open runner up Kara Scott. Hendon Mobber Ross Boatman will be hoping to end the day with as big a stack as his brother Barny who played yesterday. Also in the running at this early stage are Sergey Pomerantsev, Lyle Berman, Martin Wendt, Andrew Chen, Mandy Card and Jean Francois Talbot.