Main Event Day 1 | 2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Choctaw Durant

Level: 6

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

01-21-2012 20:38 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Ruth	60,000

We passed by James Van Alstyne's table and saw a seat card in the spot where his chips were occupying. We gathered from the table that he was all in preflop holding pocket sevens and ran into pocket aces. The aces held and Van Alstyne was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Van Alstyne	Busted

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01-21-2012 20:55 UTC

Phillips In Trouble Early

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Dennis Phillips had gotten himself in a sticky situation early in the tournament. He was down to below 7,000 when he re-raised out of the small blind preflop to 1,600. His opponent called and the flop came {6-Spades} {J-Diamonds} {A-Spades} . Phillips checked, his opponent bet 2,400 and Phillips moved all in. HIs opponent called and the hands were tabled.

Phillips: {A-Hearts} {A-Clubs}
Opponnet: {A-Diamonds} {J-Hearts}

The board completed with {6-Hearts} {10-Diamonds} and Phillips is sitting on 13,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dennis Phillips	13,000 -250	-250

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01-21-2012 20:58 UTC

Field Size

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Level 6 : 150/300, 25 ante

Tournament Supervisor Bill Bruce has announced some registration numbers for the Main Event. There were 647 entrants for Day 1a and currently 550 are still alive.

A few dozen players have already signed up for the evening flight. We'll get you those numbers when we have them.

01-21-2012 21:01 UTC

Busting Brunson

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The player who busted Todd Brunson seems to be putting his chips to good use.

Shreveport, Louisiana`s Mark Burford was the man who did the deed and after turning two pair to sink Todd`s big slick, he`s continued chipping up.

While his former tablemates have taken to calling him a fish, Burford is swimming his way up the leader board with close to 60k.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Burford	59,500

01-21-2012 21:06 UTC

"Let's Play Easy, Baby"

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Scotty Nguyen opened from under the gun to 1,200 and an opponent from middle position called. Action folded around and the blinds released. The flop came {5-Diamonds} {5-Hearts} {5-Clubs} and Nguyen said, "Let's play easy, baby," and tossed out 1,200.

His opponent smiled and tossed in a call to see the {Q-Clubs} turn. Nguyen put out 1,200 again and his opponent raised to 3,000.

"Why you gotta do that, baby?" Nguyen asked as he folded his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scotty Nguyen	22,000

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01-21-2012 21:08 UTC

Walker Texas Ranger

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Yet another Texan is quickly climbing the leader board here in Durant.

This time it`s Plano`s Chris Walker who ran up to the top of the counts when he got it in with an ace-high diamond flush draw against top pair and got there.

At one point he had it up over 60k, but a yacht sunk his boat in a 25,000 chip pot and he`s now holding steady above the 50k mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Walker	53,000

01-21-2012 21:20 UTC

The Master Gets Outflopped

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Mitch Merritt opened from the hijack to 800 and Men "The Master" Nguyen called from the cutoff. The blinds came along as well to see the {4-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {4-Hearts} flop. The blinds checked, Merritt checked and Nguyen bet 1,500. The blinds released and Merritt called. The turn brought the {6-Clubs} , Merritt bet out 1,775 and Nguyen called. The river brought the {6-Spades} and Merritt tossed out a 5,000 chip.

Nguyen re-checked his hole cards, sat for a moment and then raised to 15,000. Merritt insta-called and tabled {10-Clubs} {10-Hearts} . Nguyen turned over {Q-Spades} {4-Spades} and commented that he though Merritt had aces.