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$5,150 Championship Main Event
Day 1 Completed
2008 World Series of Poker Circuit - Atlantic City
$5,150 Championship Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2008 World Series of Poker Circuit - Atlantic City
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$4,900
Prize Pool
$877,100
Total Entries
179
Level
18
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 179
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What started with 179 entrants some 13 hours ago is now just a sparse field of the 35 remaining players. The day started off slow as expected, but things gradually picked up as 75 players were knocked out before the dinner break. The pace certainly continued to quicken after supper as well. In the last five levels, we lost another 69 players to end up with our final number, despite the usual slowdown towards the end of the night.
Some of the big-name casualties of the first day include Al Krux, Shaun Deeb, Jason Young, Doug "Rico" Carli, Eric "sheets" Haber, and Bret "Gank" Jungblut. Sirous Jamshidi staved off elimination, and he will return tomorrow with the short stack of 23,700.
On the other end of the spectrum, Bill Gazes is our overnight chip leader, bagging up a whopping 336,700 chips. That is, if he can squeeze all of those checks into the bag. Mike Leah is hot on his heels though with just under 275,000, and Allen Bari is just a few thousand behind that. Full chip counts straight off the bags are available in the tab to the right of this page.
Play was scheduled to start at noon tomorrow, but the staff has decided to push that back two hours at the behest of the majority of the players. With that, Day 1 is concluded. We hope you'll join us tomorrow at noon -- errr, 2:00pm -- as we play down to our final nine. Until then, goodnight from Atlantic City!
defeated her opponent's 
when a third eight hit the turn.At another table, Mike "GoLeafsGoEh" Leah called an opponent's all-in bet on a board reading
. Leah held 
while his opponent tabled 
. The 
came on the river and Leah made a better two pair to win the pot.
"This would be a bad call," she said, "but there's 60 thousand in the pot." She continued to debate her decision as she cut out the calling chips from her stack. She leaned back in her chair fingering the chips before standing up to get a different perspective of the table. "This would be a bad call," she repeated. "But maybe I'm tired." Finally, she splashed the chips into the pot with a not-so-sure, "I call."
Showdown:
Monteavaro:
Opponent:
With a nearly 100,000-chip pot up for grabs, the dealer burned a card and spread out the flop. Right in the door came the
, followed by the 
and the 
.Talk about crushing the flop.
Left drawing extremely thin, the all-in player saw his final two cards of this tournament, as the turn and river came
and respectively. Monteavaro looked almost upset as she shook her head and offered a conciliatory, "Nice hand," to her opponent. "Bad call," she reiterated.Her "bad call" turned to gold for her though, as she eliminates the 38th-place finisher from the field. With that sizable pot, Monteavaro has become a force to be reckoned with, sitting now on a stack of just over 160,000.
With that elimination, we are now just one knockout away from the conclusion of Day 1.
and Young, having only looked at his , slowly peeled the 
. The board came 
and Jason Young's night was over.Minh "RMG" Nguyen now sits with over 90,000.
, but Leah called with 
. The board ran out 
and Deeb was eliminated.Mike "GoLeafsGoEh" now has nearly 200,000.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Oh there is plenty of action. The pace of the short-stack all-ins is blistering, but the decisions of the other players who follow are extremely pensive and drawn out.
We are just about to break to our final five tables, meaning we need 9 more eliminations before play can conclude for the night.
