| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
44,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
32,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
31,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
31,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
29,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
28,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
24,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
22,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
21,500
1,500
|
1,500 |
|
|
21,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
20,000 | |
|
|
20,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
19,500
500
|
500 |
|
|
||
|
|
19,500
500
|
500 |
|
|
||
|
|
19,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
18,400
1,600
|
1,600 |
|
|
||
|
|
17,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
16,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
16,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
15,500
4,500
|
4,500 |
|
|
13,000 | |
|
|
12,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
12,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
10,500
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
9,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Horseshoe Hammond
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
We've got three levels in the books for this Main Event, and the enormous field has been herded back out the double doors like a swarm of cattle. The first break is here, and this one's going to be a bit extended. We'll be away for 30 minutes, during which time the staff is going to try and clear the registration line and finalize the list of runners, which stands at 850 going into the break.
Back in a bit.
We've spotted a couple more names in the field today. Sorel Mizzi, Jason DeWitt and Eddy Sabat are all here. Sabat joined the toughest table of these latecomers. He's seated with Josh Brikis, David Peters and Jeff Banghart. Brikis is to his immediate left with a stack over 40,000.
Action was checked by one player to Bryan Devonshire on the board of 


. Devonshire fired a bet of 1,025 and after a minute of thought, his opponent made the call.
The river completed the board with the
and the first player checked. Devonshire fired a bet of 2,625. Another minute went by as the player sat in the tank before deciding to call Devonshire's bet. Devonshire announced the nuts and tabled the 
for a broadway straight. His opponent tossed his hand in face down and Devonshire was awarded the pot to push his stack to about 29,000.
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
One of our PokerNews bloggers is Josh Brikis and he's out in the field today. Brikis came a bit late to the event, but was welcomed with a nice gift in the form of an opponent's entire stack just shortly after he sat down.
According to Brikis, he raised under the gun with two sixes and the big blind made the call. After a flop of 

, the big blind bet, Brikis raised, the big blind reraised, Brikis jammed and the big blind called. What did he have? Well, the old 
for top two pair against the set of sixes for Brikis. The board bricked out from there and Brikis won the pot, moving his stack to a nice 40,000 in chips.
Want an idea of how big this event is? Just look at our Twitter Tracker:
Adam "Roothlus" Levy: The line to reg for the tourney is at least 40 minutes long, around 300 ppl deep. Gonna eat some breakfast and hope the line dies down.
Dave Sands: Just got to Hammond. The line to reg is 150 deep min. Never seen anything like it. In line at 12:20, doubt I get regged before 1:30.
Josh Brikis: Over 800 players. Table 35...looks good..let's go
They just keep pouring in by the bunches.
Josh Brikis
Bryn Kenney
Joe Elpayaa
Dave Sands
Ty Reiman
Jonathan Aguiar
Keith Crowder
Doug Carli
Jonathan Tamayo
Tom Koral
John Land
Edward Ochana
Don't worry about a shortage of numbers here in Hammond, but the tournament staff may need to worry about a shortage of tables for all the players. At last check, the board read 740 entrants. We wandered outside into the hallway where registration is located and the line is still about 125 people deep and doesn't look to be getting any shorter.
There are talks swirling of hitting 900, far above the original goal of 700 that the tournament staff wished to reach. To us, 900 looks like it will be easily obtainable given the amount of people currently in line. They're still filing in from outside and some small talk of alternates is in the air. Alternates or not, this event is massive!