Event 22 - $5,000 No Limit Holdem Day 1 | 2007 World Series of Poker

06-13-2007 11:52 UTC-7

Play Will Begin in Ten Minutes

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Players are taking their seats for the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Event. This is going to be a packed field of well known players. We should see some exciting action.

06-13-2007 12:03 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user38420]

Cards are in the air for the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Event.

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

06-13-2007 12:08 UTC-7

Tournament Director Jack Effel has just announcd the format for the $5000 Heads Up Championship.

Due to the nature of the tournament format, he announced he will be locking the tournament out at either 128, 256 or 512 players.

We suggest any players wishing to play this event on the 19th June sign up as soon as they can to avoid being locked out.

06-13-2007 12:09 UTC-7

Tough Table

[user37786]

Barry Greenstein took his seat...and then Billy Baxter took the chair two to his left. And now Scotty Nguyen just sauntered up and sat down in the ten seat.

Tags: Barry Greenstein Billy Baxter Scotty Nguyen

06-13-2007 12:14 UTC-7

Faces In the Crowd

[user37786]

You might expect that the field for today's $5,000 No-Limit event would be packed with the biggest names in the game, and your expectations would be spot-on. Here's the first in what will doubtless be a large number of updates about who's playing today:

Erik Seidel, T.J. Cloutier, Marco Traniello, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Binger, John Racener, Ryan Fair, Jon "PearlJammer" Turner.

Tags: Erik Seidel Jennifer Tilly John Racener Jon Turner Marco Traniello Michael Binger Ryan Fair T.J. Cloutier

06-13-2007 12:18 UTC-7

Always a Fashion Plate

[user37786]

Scotty Nguyen walked in, took his seat...and then quickly got up and went for a walk. Checking out the room? No, Scotty came over to say that someone pointed out that he had his shirt on inside out. "Were you laughing at me?" he teased as he returned to his chair, perfectly turned out as usual.

Tags: Scotty Nguyen

06-13-2007 12:20 UTC-7

More Big Names

[user37786]

Vanessa Selbst, who made the final table of yesterday's Ladies' Event, is in today's field. As are Lee Watkinson, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Eric "Rizen" Lynch, Alex Melinkow, Joe Awada, Mimi Tran, and Layne Flack.

Tags: Alex Melinkow Eric "Rizen" Lynch Joe Awada Layne Flack Lee Watkinson Men "The Master" Nguyen Mimi Tran Vanessa Selbst

06-13-2007 12:22 UTC-7

Some more notables

[user38334]

Also in the field are; Dutch Boyd, John Juanda, Clonie Gowan, Richard Brodie, Mike Sexton, Jeff Lisandro, Paul Wasicka, Gavin Smith, Andy Black and Phil Laak.

06-13-2007 12:25 UTC-7

Late Night, Early Morning

[user37786]

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow finished 11th yesterday in the $2,500 No-Limit event and he's in his seat in today's event providing a postmortem on last night's play. "You try laying down Jacks two hands in a row," he said.

Tags: Mike "The Mouth" Matusow