Event 18 - $5,000 Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2007 World Series of Poker

06-10-2007 18:43 UTC-7

Doyle Makes a Late Entrance

Doyle Brunson has just taken a seat at Clonie Gowen's table. He missed the first blind level, but we're fairly confident he'll make do.

Tags: Doyle Brunson

06-10-2007 18:32 UTC-7

Phil Laak, Class Clown

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

"Ah, you bet the maximum," says Phil Laak to his opponent (mind you, this is a limit event). "I call." The board read {J-Spades}

, and the turn card was the {K-Clubs}

. "You bet it again? I just call." The {A-Hearts}

fell on the river. "Okay, this time I bet the maxiumum." He tells his opponent, "I have {Q-Hearts}

or

." After some thought, his opponent dumps his hand, and Laak remarks, "Actually, you know I had the set of queens."

Tags: Phil Laak Unabomber

Level: 2

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

06-10-2007 17:52 UTC-7

Marcel Luske is making his first appearance at this year's WSOP. The ESPN cameras are very excited. Players start with 10,000 and chips and the blinds are only 50/100. Remember, this is LIMIT Hold'em, folks. There is no action to cover, but Marcel will make the footage worthwhile.

He jokingly says to the camera crew, "Why don't you give me your number, go and have a coffee, and I will call you in five hours when the game begins."

06-10-2007 17:46 UTC-7

Another Stacked Table

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Table 17 has a table full of young guns, Eric Froehlich, Joe Sebok, Greg Mueller and Daniel Alaei.

06-10-2007 17:44 UTC-7

Table 14 Just Got Tougher

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

As if table 14 was not tough enough, Howard Lederer has just taken a seat!

Tags: Howard Lederer

06-10-2007 17:41 UTC-7

Daniel Jumping in

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Daniel Negreanu is joining us for 15 minutes, while the HORSE event is on a break. It is interesting that they are allowing this as both tournaments are using the same set of chips.

06-10-2007 17:39 UTC-7

Table 14

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Table 14 is only five-handed, but those five players are Ted Forrest, Sabyl Cohen, Vanessa Rousso, Eli Elezra and Howard Lederer. It is rumoured that the other 5 players did indeed turn up, but that they headed straight for the door once they saw the lineup.

06-10-2007 17:29 UTC-7

Another All-Star Field

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

It looks like another all-star lineup. So far we have seen:

Men Nguyen, JC Tran, Erick Lindgren, Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman, Joe Sebok, Eric Froehlich, David Pham, Clonie Gowan, Phil Laak, Jesse Jones, and seated on the same table, Barry Greenstein and Mimi Tran.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0