Main Event
Day 1 Started
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah's Atlantic City
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah's Atlantic City
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$512,160
Entries
352
Level
31
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
All Set in Atlantic City
Welcome to Atlantic City for the next stop on the World Series of Poker Circuit!
Harrah's Resort Atlantic City is host to the latest tour stop. You can expect that we'll be seeing a lot of familiar circuit faces on the felt for this one. So far we've seen Mike Leah, Doug "Rico" Carli, and Matt Brady wandering around the hotel. Plenty of players have earned themselves some points for the National Championship race and you can check out the leader board to see where everyone stands.
A field of more than 300 players is expected. The tournament kicks off today at 11:00 am local time here in Atlantic City, about 30 minutes from now. PokerNews will be on the floor to bring you all the coverage. We'll see you in a bit!
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
Who's Here?
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
So far we've spotted the following:
Amnon Filippi
Chris Tryba
Matt Glantz
Chris Bell
Lana Maier
Todd Terry
Al Riccobono
Matt Brady
Alan Cutler
Ari Engel
Ronnie Bardah
Joanne Monteavaro
Soheil Shamseddin
Sirous Jamshidi
Room to Grow
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Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
Our Main Event kicked off right at noon local time, and hour earlier than most poker players prefer to start their day. We'll attribute the vacancies to a lot of late sleepers, and we expect to see them begin to fill in as registration progresses.
The clock shows 279 players registered and counting. The cashier's window is open until the end of Level 5, so get down here and get yourself signed up if you've got $1,650 burning a hole in your pocket.
Level: 2
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Riccobono Up Early
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
We had a chance to visit with friend of PokerNews Al Riccobono as he was involved in a pocket-padding pot at the tail end of the last level. Riccobono took a free flop with 
from the blinds, and he and his opponent check-checked through the 
flop. Riccobono check-called when his money 
hit the turn, and he took the betting lead with 1,000 more chips on the 
river. His opponent raised to 3,000, music to Riccobono's ears. He popped it back to 6,475, and his opponent reluctantly called.
"Nuts," Riccobono said, tabling his hand for all to see. Dragging that pot moves Al up to about 26,500 here in the early going.
Terry Doubles
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
We arrived at Todd Terry's table and found a pot brewing with a board reading 
. There was about 2,200 in the pot and action had been checked to Terry. He bet, but his opponent put in a check-raise to 4,000.
Terry thought it over for about a minute before putting in the rest of his stack, roughly 14,000 more. His opponent called and Terry quickly tabled 
for a set. His opponent held 
and was looking for a heart on the river to eliminate Terry.
The river brought the and Terry safely doubled through to about 36,000.
Bardah Bartering
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
As usual, Ronnie Bardah is the life of the party at his table. There's a lot of good-natured banter going on over there, Bardah doing the ring leading. His stack has slipped to about 14,000, and that's already got him craving action. He just tried to talk his table into a forced mini-straddle under the gun every hand. Everyone at the table agreed except for one gentleman, so the action was off.
Bardah saw us lurking. "What up, PokerNews? I just tried to get the table to straddle every hand. There was only one holdout. The guy in Seat 3 who's stuck as balls like me."
Small Bump For Leah
Level 2
: 50/100, 0 ante
Mike Leah and one opponent saw a flop come down 
. Both checked and when the 
turn hit, Leah's opponent fired 700. Leah called and the hit the river. Both checked and Leah mucked his hand when his opponent tabled 
for a flush.
Not much damage done to Leah's stack, currently at about 19,500.