Texas Dolly - The Face of a Champion
Doyle Brunson arrived one hour late. He entered the Amazon Ballroom admist a loud standing ovation and took his seat.
Texas Dolly won the WSOP Main Event twice... in 1976 and 1977. First place in 1976 paid out $220,000. First place in 1977 paid out $340,000.
At last year's $50K HORSE event, Brunson won $274,560 for 8th place. At the 2006 Main Event, first place paid out $12 million.
Jeff "The Jester" Madsen
Jeff Madsen was the unfortunate loser in a three-way WSOP prop bet between himself, Gavin Smith, and Joe Sebok. Based on a point system that measured their success in the preliminary no-limit hold'em events (as well as two "joker" events of their choice), Madsen came up short and per the terms of the bet, was forced to play his Main Event Day 1 in a jester suit.
"The Jester" was just involved in his first big confronation of the day. A late position player raised to 400, Madsen called from the cutoff, and the big blind called. The flop was . The big blind checked, the late position player checked, Madsen bet 1,000, the big blind folded and the LP player called. The turn was the . The LP player checked, Madsen fired out 2,000 and the LP player called. The river was the . The LP player checked again, Madsen bet 5,000 and his opponent called.
Madsen showed for a set of jacks and his opponent mucked. After the hand, he was up to 29,000 and looked just a bit more comfortable in his felt get-up.
Ray Romano
Actor Ray Romano is among the celebrities playing in today's event. His table was broken and before the remaining players left, they asked Romano to autograph their hats.
ESPN camers followed behind Romano as he walked across the room to his new table. He happened to come across Brad Garrett's table, who was a fellow cast member on "Everbody Loves Raymond."
"Brad what are you doing wearing your hat on backwards?" said Romano. "Have you been watching too much poker on TV?"
"Go away, Ray!" joked Garrett. "You bring me bad luck."
Nick Frangos
On a board of , Nick Frangos raised 3,000, one player pushed all-in and Frangos called. Frangos had two pair with , but he was drawing dead against his opponent's . The river was and Frangos was eliminated.
Seed check-called a 1,100 bet after the flop and a 3,000 bet after the turned, but when the fell on the river Seed fired out an 8K bet and his opponent folded. Seed is now up to 22,000.
Tobey Maguire was heads up on the flop against an under the gun player.
Flop:
Maguire made it 500 to go and his opponent called. They both checked the on the turn, but his opponent bet out 300 when the fell on the river. Maguire made the call and won the hand after showing for the flush. His opponent flashed the before mucking.
Debbie Burkhead
Debbie Burkhead, a well-known Las Vegas rounder and columnist for Poker Player Newspaper, was enjoying a great start to her day, cruising along and winning some small pots, that is until she ran a queen-high flush into a straight flush, losing a 4,000 pot.
Here are a few of the players that have started today: C.K. Hua, Beth Shak, Marco Traniello, Jim Feist (sports handicapper), Josh Arieh, Andrew Black, Vince Van Patten, Lars Bonding, Richard "Quiet Lion" Brodie, Shane Schleger, Tony Ma, Arnold Spee, Keith Sexton, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Debbie Burkhead, Ram Vaswani, Mark Vos, and An "The Boss" Tran. Also, hockey player Max Talbot, from Pittsburgh, PA, has joined the field today.
Whoops, no need to panic, it's not an alien invasion of eight-foot tall legumes. Planters is one of the official sponsors of the World Series of Poker and Mr. Peanut has just made an appearance. He's walking around the Amazon Room, shaking hands and posing for pictures.
. The big blind checked, the late position player checked, Madsen bet 1,000, the big blind folded and the LP player called. The turn was the 
. The LP player checked, Madsen fired out 2,000 and the LP player called. The river was the 
. The LP player checked again, Madsen bet 5,000 and his opponent called. 
for a set of jacks and his opponent mucked. After the hand, he was up to 29,000 and looked just a bit more comfortable in his felt get-up.
, Nick Frangos raised 3,000, one player pushed all-in and Frangos called. Frangos had two pair with 
, but he was drawing dead against his opponent's 
. The river was 
turned, but when the 
fell on the river Seed fired out an 8K bet and his opponent folded. Seed is now up to 22,000.
on the turn, but his opponent bet out 300 when the 
for the flush. His opponent flashed the 
