If you want to have a bit of fun - and after all that is what it is all about - then cross your fingers and hope you get moved to Table 26. Half of the table have decided to play with antes and the other half are downing shots. Seated in seat seven - beer in tow - is Kevin Mathers. Mathers, or Kevmath as he is known to the poker population, keeps the world of poker together through his phenomenal reach through social media. Seriously, this man never sleeps and maybe that is why he only has 1,000 chips left? Here is Mathers getting off to a woeful start.
There was a limper up front when Mathers raised to 125 from the hijack. There were calls from the cutoff, big blind and the original limper. So four people saw a flop of and Mathers narrowed the field down to just himself and the cutoff with a 225 bet. The turn was the and Mathers check-folded to a 450 bet, leaving himself with 1,000 chips.
Earlier we reported on a hand with David Peters and told you that he finished as a runner-up in a $1,000 back in 2010. The winner of that event was Marcel Vonk, who picked up $570,960 and a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet for his troubles. Well the super-intelligent Vonk is in the house. He is currently sipping a Latte over at Table 11 and has starting stack.
Amanda Musumeci is a feline with form. When it comes to carving a hole through fields in excess of a few thousand Musumeci has the secret formula. After all she not only finished 62nd in last years WSOP Main Event for $130,997, but she was runner-up to Ashkan Razavi in Event #9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry just a few weeks ago for $481,643. Here is Musumeci in action.
We caught the action on a flop of and 100 in the pot. The small blind checked to Musumeci who made a c-bet 100 from mid-position and the small blind called. The turn card was the and this time Musumeci bet 275 - once checked to - but was forced to fold to a 700 check-raise. She now has 2,500.
As we walked up to Table 85 in the Brasilia room red section we noticed two top professionals. In seat two we saw Darryll Fish who was right next to 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Carlos Mortensen. As we looked down at the felt there was already a board out in a hand between these two players.
The action was on Fish who threw out 250 chips from the button with 375 chips in the pot. Mortensen was in the small blind and he opted to raise to 625. Fish gave it some thought before moving all in, and Mortesen snap-called.
Fish turned over , and reacted disgusted when Mortensen showed . Fish was drawing dead, and after a count of the chips it turned out Mortensen had him covered. Mortensen told him he himself got knocked out in a similar situation yesterday, but obviously that didn't help Fish who lost his chips before the start of the second level.
World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #5: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em final tablist, John Eames, has found himself a nice view of the England v Italy match. He is seated right in front of the big screen. But Eames may want to keep his eye off the football, and instead on seat six because it contains the frame of Jude Ainsworth. Ainsworth is a phenomenal online player who can also throw his weight about in the live arena.
Also joining Eames and Ainsworth in the Silver Section of the Brasilia room include, Gabriel Nassif, Barry Shulman, Dylan Linde, Tony Cousineau and David Peters. Peters knows how to plough his way through a field of this size. Already this year he has scored a 7th place finish, for $70,8886, in Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, and in 2010, finished 2nd to Marcel Vonk in the $1,0000 WSOP event for $350,803. Here is Peters getting involved nice and early.
Peters raised to 75 in mid-position and Greg White made the call from the small blind. White proceeded to check-call two streets (100 & 225) on a board before both players checked at the sight of on fifth street. White tabled and Peters mucked his hand.
The One Drop tournament with a buy-in of $1,000,000 will commence on July 1st, but up until that time we will call these massive fields 'Big Ones'!
Today's event already has 2,492 players registered, there's a line at the cashier and up until the second break of the day players are allowed to buy in. The last $1,000 tournament at this WSOP drew a field of 2,795, and we're going to get very close to that number again today.
The previous $1,000 No Limit Hold'em had a first place prize of $440,238, which was taken home by Max Steinberg. He defeated Samuel Gerber heads up who took home $273,385.
The players are still piling into the room (2,288 registered so far), the officials have finally switched off the women's billiards so the lads can watch England v Italy and the clock has struck noon.
It's time for Event #44 to kick-off, it's time to try and win World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold, it's time to shuffle up and deal.
Good afternoon and welcome to Event #44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em.
These are the competitions that the amateur players flock to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for. A relatively inexpensive opportunity to sit and play poker with the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu. What other game or sport in the world allows fans and players to mix so up close and personal?
During last years event that is exactly what happened, as Kenneth Griffin secured his first ever live cash, $455,356 in prize money and a WSOP gold bracelet after overcoming a final table containing Andrew Teng and Antonio Esfandiari.
We are assuming that the attendance figure will head over the 1,500 mark and if it does we will be playing eleven levels of sixty-minutes. There will be a twenty-minute dinner break at the end of every two-levels, and a ninety-minute dinner break at the end of level-six.
The action starts at 12:00 PM and PokerNews will be bringing you all of the stories from Day 1 of Event #44 as it happens in the Brasilia, Amazon and Pavilion rooms.
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and Mathers narrowed the field down to just himself and the cutoff with a 225 bet. The turn was the 
and Mathers check-folded to a 450 bet, leaving himself with 1,000 chips.
and 100 in the pot. The small blind checked to Musumeci who made a c-bet 100 from mid-position and the small blind called. The turn card was the 
and this time Musumeci bet 275 - once checked to - but was forced to fold to a 700 check-raise. She now has 2,500.
board out in a hand between these two players.
, and reacted disgusted when Mortensen showed 
. Fish was drawing dead, and after a count of the chips it turned out Mortensen had him covered. Mortensen told him he himself got knocked out in a similar situation yesterday, but obviously that didn't help Fish who lost his chips before the start of the second level.
board before both players checked at the sight of 
on fifth street. White tabled 
and Peters mucked his hand.
