Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker

06-07-2012 02:41 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Tryba	73,000 5,000	5,000

Bryan Devonshire	46,500 6,500	6,500
David Grey	45,000 23,500	23,500
Chad Brown	42,000 24,500	24,500

Jesse Martin	41,000 11,000	11,000

Todd Brunson	40,000 23,500	23,500

Cyndy Violette	39,500 25,500	25,500

Andrey Pateychuk	39,000 23,000	23,000
Abe Mosseri	39,000 1,000	1,000

Mike Gorodinsky	36,000 19,000	19,000

John Hennigan	35,000 15,000	15,000

Ben Yu	33,500 3,900	3,900

Allen Kessler	32,000 13,000	13,000
Doyle Brunson	27,000 17,900	17,900

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Player	Chips	Progress
Antony Lellouche	Busted
Nick Schulman	Busted

Jim Collopy	Busted

Maria Ho	Busted
Matt Glantz	Busted
Matt Lefkowitz	Busted

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06-07-2012 02:51 UTC-6

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Ivey	48,000 21,000	21,000

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

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Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Tryba	63,600 -9,400	-9,400

Brian Twete	54,800
David Grey	54,700 9,700	9,700
Calvin Anderson	50,500

Andrew Finkernagel	48,900
Jesse Martin	47,300 6,300	6,300

Tuan Vo	46,300
Drew Scott	46,200
Mike Gorodinsky	45,900 9,900	9,900

Todd Brunson	45,800 5,800	5,800

Andrey Pateychuk	44,400 5,400	5,400
Barry Greenstein	43,500 33,500	33,500

Bryan Devonshire	43,100 -3,400	-3,400
Nikolai Yakovenko	40,800 26,300	26,300
Phil Ivey	40,100 -7,900	-7,900

Eli Elezra	39,900 20,150	20,150

Cyndy Violette	38,900 -600	-600

John Bunch	36,800
Stephen Su	36,800 20,800	20,800
Allen Bari	36,700 5,700	5,700

Daniel Shak	36,500
Chad Brown	36,400 -5,600	-5,600

Viacheslav Zhukov	35,800
Igor Sharaskin	35,800
Huck Seed	35,000 20,000	20,000

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06-07-2012 03:12 UTC-6

After eight levels of play, Day 1 of Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better is in the books. A total of 212 players ponied up $5,000 to play today, generating a prize pool of $996,400. The top 24 players will receive a minimum of $9,675, each member of the final table is guaranteed $27,012 and the winner will take home a whopping $269,037.

Chris Tryba, who already has two top-seventeen finishes in Stud events at the 2012 World Series of Poker, leads the remaining 137 players with 63,600 chips, but biting at his heels are Phil Ivey, Bryan Devonshire, Abe Mosseri, Allen Bari, Chad Brown, Todd Brunson and his father Doyle Brunson.

There were a few notable players who were unable to make it through the day, including Maria Ho, Matt Glantz, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jon Turner, Shaun Deeb and Jon Aguiar.

For "Texas Dolly", this was his first event played at the 2012 WSOP. The 10-time bracelet winner has been very public on Twitter about why he’s playing so few events and it was great to see him back in action. When he first sat down at the beginning of Level 5, Nolan Dalla announced his presence over the P.A. system, and the Godfather of Poker" received a well-deserved round of applause. Perhaps he can run his stack up on Day 2 tomorrow, and take a shot at Phil Hellmuth’s record of eleven WSOP gold bracelets.

Ivey locked up his first cash of the 2012 WSOP earlier today when he won his table in Event 14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout, and he’s also got a large stack in this event. He won a massive, four-way pot with quad sixes during one of the first levels of play. Ivey started the hand rolled up, and was dealt the fourth sixth on fifth street. Nobody qualified for the low, and Ivey scooped the whole kit-n-kaboodle. Tomorrow, he'll once again be double dipping with two events, which was been common this WSOP.

Day 2 begins at 2:00 PM local time tomorrow. Be sure to check back on PokerNews.com for all of your up-to-the-minute updates from the 2012 WSOP. Good night from Vegas!

Tags: Chris Tryba

Event 15: $5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split 8-or-Better

Day 1 Completed