With a limp in early position and a raise to 800, the action was passed to Susie Isaacs on the button.
"Raise!" mumbled Isaacs from under a bright green hat that featured a royal flush pinned to the side.
Isaacs splashed the pot with a raise to 2,500 to force the blinds to kick their cards to the muck swiftly as the original followed too. The preflop raiser stalled for a moment before tossing their cards to the muck.
Isaacs dragged the pot and slowly revealed her to prove she wasn't button stealing! Isaacs is now sitting with 12,000 in chips.
We walked by Kenny "Badhat" Piel's table and saw that his chip stack had grown up to 20,000 in chips. He has knocked out a total of five players total so far. When we were watching he picked up a few small pots in the blinds that never went to show down. We'll be keeping an eye on him today to see if his stack continues to grow.
Harold Angle limped from middle position, as did the cutoff. The small completed and the big checked his option.
The flop came and everyone checked around the the cutoff player, who led out for 400. The player in the small blind called and Angle both called.
The turn came the and the small blind checked. Angle went all-in for 975, the cutoff folded but the small blind called and tabled for a flush. Angle flipped up and found himself drawing to flush.
River: , giving Angle the superior king-high flush.
Following that hand, our defending champion still has plenty of fight left with approximately 4,000 in chips.
Paul Magriel has just been spotted in the field wielding a 5,100-chip stack.
"Quack, quack!" echoed the room, and for anyone that has been around poker, will know that this is Magriel's catch-cry.
Known as X-22 on the backgammon circuit, Magriel is one of the world's greatest backgammon players and teachers. However his success on the green felt isn't as great. Magriel however does have eight WSOP cashes to his name and a WPT final table.
A huge stack of high denomination chips caught our eye and we watched as Tom Meldrum added even more after an all-in confrontation. With 700 chips already up fro grabs, an opponent holding the button pushed all-in for his last 1,825.
The action folded around to Meldrum in the cutoff, and with an already massive stack of over 20,000 at his disposal, he cut off enough for the call and flipped over his .
His opponent was in the lead with his but appeared disappointed to be tangling with the chip leader for his tournament life. The flop of did nothing to assuage these worries and the on the turn gave Meldrum the lead in the hand. After the river came , Meldrum had eliminated another player and built his stack to over 25,000 in the process.
With the average chip stack at around 4,000 to 4,500 at this stage in the Seniors Championship, Meldrum's castle of chips puts him in commanding position as we approach the Day 1 dinner break.
Doug "Rico" Carli has just been spotted on the far side of the Pavilion Room.
Sitting with 3,500 in chips, we also noticed that he was seated to a recognisable player named William McKinney.
McKinney however is doing slightly better then Carli as he has amassed a 10,500-chip stack, and with five WSOP cashes to his name, McKinney will be hoping to add another here while Carli will be looking for his 24th career WSOP cash if he can gain some run-good.
The action began with two players limping from early position and a middle position player raising to 1,000. Charles "Woody" Moore called from small and both limpers folded.
Moore donked for 900 on the flop and his opponent flatted.
The turn brought a and Moore checked, prompting a 1,000 bet from his opponent. Moore shook his head dejectedly and mucked his hand.
We overheard a few players discussing an extremely interesting hand that occurred earlier in Day 1 action. Apparently, one player was holding and faced a raise, a reraise and a four-bet shove in front of him. Normally this is the type of situation that poker players only dream about, but for this particular competitor in the Seniors Event, something just didn't feel right.
According to the dealer involved, the player showed her his pocket rockets before throwing them into the muck. His remaining opponents showed and between them and after a king-high flop, the other man holding the best starting hand in hold'em hit the rail with bad beat story to take home.
The player responsible for making the mother of all laydowns later told the dealer that "he knew he was up against aces and kings," so in his estimation "he had no outs" if a king hit, and was merely playing for a chop if has hand held up. While folding pocket aces before the flop may redefine the term "unconventional play," the move worked out for this brave soul and he loved to fight another day.
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to prove she wasn't button stealing! Isaacs is now sitting with 12,000 in chips.
and everyone checked around the the cutoff player, who led out for 400. The player in the small blind called and Angle both called.
and the small blind checked. Angle went all-in for 975, the cutoff folded but the small blind called and tabled 
for a flush. Angle flipped up 
and found himself drawing to flush.
, giving Angle the superior king-high flush.
.
did nothing to assuage these worries and the 
on the turn gave Meldrum the lead in the hand. After the river came 
flop and his opponent flatted.
and Moore checked, prompting a 1,000 bet from his opponent. Moore shook his head dejectedly and mucked his hand.
