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Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Choctaw Durant
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2011-12 World Series of Poker Circuit Event - Choctaw Durant
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$1,600
Prize Pool
$1,422,990
Total Entries
978
Level
31
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 978
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Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
We are just a few moments away from the second flight getting underway. Players are taking their seats as we type.
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Day 1a has wrapped of the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Choctaw Casino and Resort and 398 players remain for the 647 that started the day. Sitting comfortably in the lead is Chris Tiller with 167,500 - which is near 100,000 more than the next closest stack we've tracked.
Notables surviving the day are Scotty Nguyen, Men "The Master" Nguyen, T.J. Cloutier, Traci Brown, Raja Kattamuri, and Drazen Ilich.
It was pretty hard on other notables though - Todd Brunson, Gavin Smith, Chad Brown, Layne Flack, Dennis Phillips and James Van Alstyne did not survive the day.
The evening flight is scheduled to kickoff promptly at 7 p.m. CST. Tournament officials are expecting another large turnout and are hoping to hit 1,000 players. Follow all the WSOPC action live on Pokernews.com. We'll see you then!
The tournament room here at the Choctaw Casino is currently full of short stacks shoving in the hopes of either doubling up or busting and registering again for the second Day 1 flight at 7 p.m. tonight.
Those were T.J. Cloutier's thoughts exactly as he shipped it in with 
and connected against a weak ace to double up his stack.
"I didn't care," he said. "I was either going to double up or come back and try again at 7. I knew you had a weak ace."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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29,000
500
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500 |
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Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
The Prince of Poker himself is seated not far from our work station. We have overheard "Baby" and his signature laugh too many times to count. He's the most experienced player in the room and isn't afraid to show it - he's wearing his WSOP Main Event bracelet AND his $50,000 Players Championship bracelet today.
Hand 1 - Nguyen is on the button and folded preflop. His stack is at 23,500. After the hand there was a dealer change and Nguyen said, "Go destroy them over there, baby."
Hand 2 - He folded preflop, stands up from his chair and walks around. He slapped the player in the 1 seat on the back and talked to him.
Hand 3 - He folded preflop and answered a text message. We couldn't see if he answers every text message with a "Baby."
Hand 4 - He folded preflop and was shuffling a chip across his knuckles. He leaned over and was talking to the player in the 8 seat in hushed tones, but then laughed out loud.
Hand 5 - He folded preflop, looked across the table and asked a player, "Where you from, baby?" He replied a suburb of Chicago and Nguyen shrugged his shoulders. We're guessing he doesn't get to the Windy City much.
Hand 6 - He folded preflop and answered another text message.
Hand 7 - From under the gun he opened to 2,500 and found one caller out of the small blind. The flop came 
. The small blind bet 4,000 and Nguyen quickly moved all in. "Just over 20,000, baby." The small blind folded and Nguyen took the pot.
Hand 8 - Action folded around to Nguyen in the big blind after the UTG player opened for 3,000. Nguyen turned up 
and said, "Can you beat that, baby?" as he folded.
Hand 9 - A middle position player opened for 2,500 and the player in the cutoff shoved all in. Nguyen slowly squeezed his cards and then folded. Baby.
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
Bullard, Texas' Chris Tiller has grabbed hold of what appears to be a massive chip lead here in the WSOPC Choctaw Main Event and according to him, it all happened rather quickly.
In the span of about 10 minutes he managed to win an 80k pot with pocket queens on a jack high flop against one over aggressive opponent who had flopped top pair.
Within minutes another 25k was headed his way when big slick connected against one short stack shoving with pocket fours.
Next thing Tiller knew, he was sitting on 160k and a quick look around the room shows no one even close.
Level 9
: 400/800, 100 ante
The field has one more level to play before the surviving players bag and tag for the evening. This is generally the craziest level of the tournament. With players able to rebuy the short stacks tend to stick in light with hopes of doubling up or getting a fresh stack in the 7 p.m. flight.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Another pair of Texans are threatening for the lead here in Durant.
Veteran WSOPC player and Edgwood, Texas native Jim "Catfish" Bullard claims he's been stealing pots all day and now has his stack up to 65k.
In the meantime, Dallas' Darrell Roberts is sitting on 75,000 despite telling PokerNews he hasn't played a memorable hand yet.
"Just chipping up," he said. "Real steady."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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75,000 | |
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65,000 |
Andrew Nguyen hasn't had to do much more than call his way to the top of the chip counts here at Choctaw.
The Dallas resident managed to flop quad kings early on and was lucky enough to have one plucky opponent betting into him. He min-raised the turn and river, but had to show the goods to collect the pot when he got called down.
Soon after, he held pocket nines on a 
board and had to think twice before making the call when an opponent shoved. He did so, was shown a bluffy looking 
and now sits among the leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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68,000 | |
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