Eric Froehlich called an early position player's preflop raise from the big blind and the two went heads-up to the flop.
The flop came ; Eric checked, his opponent bet 50 and he made the call. The turn brought the and the action was much the same; check, bet, call.
The was the last card to fall off the deck and this time E-Fro bet 100 into his opponent, who made the call. Froehlich turned over for a ten-high straight, and his opponent mucked his cards.
In just the first level of play, Phil Gordon has not been shy about pushing his chips around. With a fair amount of chips already in the pot and the board showing Phil Gordon called his opponent's all-in bet. Gordon showed which was behind the of his opponent. The river brought a and Gordon doubled up early.
The very next hand, Phil Gordon made a raise from the button and was re-raised by the small blind. Gordon pushed all in and was insta-called by his opponent. Gordon showed again but was behind to his opponent's . When the smoke cleared, his opponent's kings held up and Phil Gordon was right back where he started with about 3,000 chips.
Here are a few of the famous faces in today's field: Shannon Elizabeth, Joe Sebok, Young Phan, Eric Froehlich, James Van Alstyne, Noah Boeken, Phil Gordon, Nam Le, Humberto Brenes, Clonie Gowen, Jeffrey Lisandro, Thomas Walhroos and Juha Helppi to name a few...
While the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event attracted most of the high rollers, you don't have to look around the Player's Pavilion too hard to spot some of the game's top Hold'em professionals.
Not a single table is unoccupied here in the tent, which means we have at least 620 players in the field (more may arrive late).
Similar to the very first event we had this year, at 5pm we will bring you all the coverage of the $1,500 buy in mixed hold em event. Check back then for all the coverage.