Day 1 Complete; Slaubaugh Slaughtering the Competition
Day 1 is in the books for the World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars Palace $1,600 Main Event. A starting field of 496 players came out and generated a prize pool of nearly $715,000. Of that, nearly $154,000 will be awarded to first place and the top 54 spots will be paid out. At the end of the day today, Cody Slaubaugh has the most chips with 401,900. Behind him is Adam Hui with 306,500 and Mary Jones with 304,500.
Some of the notables who turned up for the event included 2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela, 2007 WSOP Main Event champion Jerry Yang and 2006 WSOP Main Event champion Jamie Gold. Those three were joined by Allen Cunningham, James Van Alstyne, Dennis Phillips, Bryan Micon, Eric Froehlich and Dutch Boyd. Unfortunately, all of those players failed to make it out of Day 1 and won’t be collecting this WSOP Circuit title.
On the other side of things, Chad Brown, Erica Schoenberg, Amanda Baker, Andrew Watson and Alex Santiago all did very well on Thursday and will be returning on Friday to continue the quest.
Day 2 kicks off to noon local time here in Las Vegas tomorrow, so be sure to stay tuned for all of the live action then as only PokerNews can bring it to you!