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Main Event
Day 1 Completed
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harveys Lake Tahoe
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harveys Lake Tahoe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$354,240
Total Entries
246
Level
29
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 246
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The first day of poker for the WSOP Circuit Main Event here in Lake Tahoe at Harvey's is in the books. An impressive 246 entrants showed up for action in this Main Event and it was a great day of poker, even despite the snow storm outside.
When the day was all said and done, right around 50 players remained, or about one-fifth of the field. Leading them all is Dan Black from Cloverdale, California. He bagged up 329,500 chips at the end of the night. Hot on his heels is Steve Brown with 305,400 in chips. Those are the only two players to eclipse the 300,000-chip mark.
Some of those who failed to make it to the end of the day include the barking Ted Bort, Woody Moore, Howard "Tahoe" Andrew, Aaron Kanter and "Captain" Tom Franklin. Unfortunately for them, they never saw the bag-and-tag portion of the night.
Play resumes tomorrow at 12:00 PM PST. The field will be whittled down to the final table and then that's where they will call it quits for tomorrow's play. With the way things are flying here in Tahoe, that shouldn't run too late into the night. Thanks for following along at PokerNews and be sure to tune in tomorrow for more live coverage from up here in the mountains of Tahoe! We'll see you then.
Ken Chruchill raised to 5,600 and again, Damjan Radanov reraised. This time, he put all of his chips in for an all-in raise worth 33,900. Churchill made the call.
Radanov: 
Churchill: 
The board ran out 
and Radanov doubles to nearly 70,000 in chips.
Damjan Radanov was all in preflop for 11,700 and called by two players, Leonard Swisher and George Reese. Swisher and Reese checked down the board as it ran out 
. Both of them tabled 
, but Radanov tabled the 
, proclaiming, "Flopped it!" He tripled up and is back to about 36,000 now.
The troubles for Damjan Radanov just keep piling up. He just doubled up an opponent who held the 
. Radanov held the 
and couldn't get there. He's down to 12,000 in chips now.
Ken Churchill raised to 5,600 from middle position. Damjan Radanov reraised to 13,100 from the cutoff seat. After action folded back to Churchill, me made the call.
The flop came down 
and Churchill checked. Radanov fired 10,000, leaving himself with 26,000 behind. Churchill called.
The turn brought the and both players checked to see the 
fall on the river. Churchill fired 20,000 and Radanov snap-mucked disgustedly. He's down to 26,000 while Churchill moved up to 122,000.
Dusty Leary opened to 5,500, and the player next to him made the call. Apparently, there's some history there. "If I lose this hand against you too," the opponent said, "I'm not playing another one all night."
In any event, it was heads up to the 
flop, and Leary continued out with another 8,000 chips. His opponent called, and both men checked through the and turn and river.
"Ace!" the opponent piped up as he tabled 
. It was no good; Leary turned up 
and pointed to his kicker to take the pot. He's the chip leader, sitting pretty with about 235,000 now.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Well, that was a bit of a slow level if we're being honest. Still, we've ticked down to 67 players left, and they've all been sent off for one more 10-minute break. We'll play two more levels when we return, and that'll be that for Day 1.
