With two professionals recently exiting the tournament floor, balance has been restored with the arrival of Olivier Busquet and Robert Cheung.
We expect to see several more notable names make their appearance during the next hour, with most pros opting to utilize the late registration process to take their seats a few hours into the tournament.
We didn't catch the action but we did catch the aftermath. Kathy Lierbert was mucking her while Amanda Musumeci was holding on a board of . Liebert was cutting out the chips to ship a double up over to Musumeci while joking to the table about the hand.
"You reward this kinda play?" Liebert joked to the dealer and the table. "I'm surprised you didn't three bet me with that crap!"
"Ok Hellmuth," Musumeci said laughing.
"Didn't you know? I model myself after him," Liebert said.
After that hand, Liebert still has a bunch of chips and is sitting over starting stack while Musumeci is about the same.
The buzz inside the walls of the Rio extends beyond just the tournaments on the 2013 World Series of Poker schedule. Online poker in Nevada is a very, very hot topic right now, and WSOP.com is making a lot of noise.
While the site has yet to launch, you can head to the Lambada Room of the Rio or look for one of the beautiful and friendly WSOP.com ladies walking the hallways to sign up for a free, personal WSOP.com online poker account. This is a great way to get a jump on the site's registration, and plenty of people have already taken this opportunity.
What's more is that the WSOP will be hosting daily raffles for everyone that has taken the time to register for WSOP.com at the Rio. What can you win? Plenty of fantastic prizes including 36 WSOP seats!
Players 21 years of age and older who sign up for a WSOP.com account will automatically be entered into the “36-Seat Giveaway” where a randomly-selected winner will win a seat into the next day’s first WSOP gold bracelet event. One of the events eligible in this promotion is the $111,111 One Drop High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament that is expected to feature a $10,000,000 prize pool and allow you to play poker with the biggest names in the game. In total, $182,333 in WSOP seats, including a seat to the WSOP Main Event, are being given away during this one-of-a-kind WSOP.com promotion.
In addition to the 36-Seat Giveaway, a “Hot Seat” promotion will allow any player who signs up for a WSOP.com online account and wears their WSOP.com patch on their chest at the table while playing an event to be randomly selected to receive 500 bonus dollars deposited directly into their WSOP.com online account once the site has received all regulatory approvals and launches.
With 62 WSOP gold bracelet events and three winners promised for the Main Event, this promotion includes $32,000 worth of value to those participating.
Athanasios Polychronopoulos (Seen Here Showing Off His Second Gold Bracelet)
Two of poker's young guns are in the house, as two-time bracelet winner Athanasios Polychronopoulos and Jesse Sylvia are here after late registering.
We passed by Polychronopoulos' table long enough to catch him drop a small pot, after he called a river bet with the board reading . Polychronopoulos mucked when his opponent tabled the for top pair, but the damage was only a dent, and he still has plenty of chips left to get things going in the right direction.
The current record for most consecutive years with a World Series of Poker Bracelet currently belongs to Bill Boyd and Doyle Brunson, who have each won four bracelets in four years. Matt Matros has currently gone the last three years and earned a WSOP bracelet each year and looks to tie the record by winning Event #54.
In 2010, Matros took down a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event worth $189,870. The year 2011 came along and Matros found himself taking down yet another bracelet in a $2,500 Mixed Hold'em event for $303,501 more. In 2012, Matros accomplished the nearly impossible task of taking down a third bracelet in three years by shipping a $1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed event for $454,835.
Matros has appeared in the field here today and he's already built himself a nice tower of chips. Could this be the event that Matros takes down his fourth bracelet in four years? It's still to early to tell here on Day 1, but anything can happen in the world of poker. We'll be sure to keep a close eye on Matros throughout the day as he tries to lock up his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet in four years.
With so many poker pros in attendance today, we managed to spot a familiar face who made his name away from the felt.
Bill Fagerbakke has played crucial roles in many of television's longest running series, although the average fan would be hard pressed to pick him out of a lineup.
Fans of the college football themed series Coach, which aired from 1989 to 1997, will remember Fagerbakke from his legendary portrayal of Dauber, the dim witted but devoted assistant to Coach Hayden Fox.
For the younger generation, Fagerbakke's voice will no doubt ring bells, as he has given life to Patrick Star on the Nickelodeon hit SpongeBob SquarePants for the show's 14-year run.
And if animation isn't your thing, Fagerbakke has made several memorable appearances on How I Met Your Mother, portraying Marvin Eriksen, the Scandinavian father of Marshall Eriksen, until the character's death in 2011.
Fagerbakke's distinctive height and voice have provided him with plenty of on-screen work throughout the years, but today he is hoping to add a deep run at the World Series of Poker to his long list of life accomplishments.
Kathy Liebert (Seen Here in an Earlier WSOP Event)
With a raise in front of her, Kathy Liebert slid a stack forward for the three-bet, and Paulette Faucher decided to make her stand with , moving all in for her last 3,500 or so chips.
Liebert asked for a count and joked with Faucher for a bit before ultimately making the call with , and she remained in a jovial mood even after discovering she was trailing Faucher's pocket pair.
Flop:
Just like that, Liebert surged into the lead with trip aces on the flop, and the turn () and river () kept her in front. Liebert continued to smile and joke with Faucher even after the bad beat, while Faucher continued their conversation from earlier as if the loss didn't bother her in the slightest.
With the win, Liebert moved above 13,000 chips heading into the second break of the day.
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on a board of 
. Liebert was cutting out the chips to ship a double up over to Musumeci while joking to the table about the hand.
for top pair, but the damage was only a dent, and he still has plenty of chips left to get things going in the right direction.
, moving all in for her last 3,500 or so chips.
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) kept her in front. Liebert continued to smile and joke with Faucher even after the bad beat, while Faucher continued their conversation from earlier as if the loss didn't bother her in the slightest.