If you're looking to find some of the legends of poker, look no further than Event #14, $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship. This event gets underway at 5pm PDT on Saturday and features one of poker's classic formats, a game that was king before hold'em's heyday in recent decades.
Chris Reslock is the reigning champion in this event, having bested a field of 180 runners in 2007 to take down that event's $258,453 first prize. We'll have early action from this event throughout Saturday evening here on PokerNews.
Players are now taking their seats for today's $10,000 buyin Stud World Championship. So far there seem to be about 16 tables setup for this event. We will see if this field grows any as registration is open through the first two levels.
Today's field is going to be a small but high quality field, as you would expect for a $10,000 Championship Event. We are expecting it to be full of big name pros with very few soft spots in the field.
Already today we have spotted the likes of Phil Ivey, Barry Greenstein, Carlos Mortensen, Greg Raymer, Cyndy Violette, David Singer, Alex Kravchenko, Eli Elezra, Marcel Luske, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Andy Black, David Williams, Men Nguyen, Jeff Lisandro and the defending champion from last year's $5,000 Stud Event, Chris Reslock.
You cannot look around in this field without seeing a pro at almost every table. Some tables are a little more stacked than others. Some interesting tables include:
Table 1: David Benyamine, Shaun Sheikhan, John Hennigan
Table 2: Jeffrey Lisandro, Greg Raymer
Table 10: Marcel Luske, David Williams
Table 11: Minh Ly, Daniel Negreanu, Carlos Mortensen
Table 12: David Levi, Jerry Buss
Table 13: Mel Judah, Michael Keiner
Daniel Negreanu fired the whole way showing and was called down by Carlos Mortensen's . Negreanu fired 7th street in the dark and Mortensen made the call as Negreanu showed ()() for rolled up queens to take down a nice early pot.
Greg Raymer was holding X-X- when he was dealt the face up. The floor was called over and it was determined that Raymer's opponent must also get his last card face up. Raymer bet out on the last street and his opponent instantly folded. The dealer's mistake likely cost Raymer 400 on the river.