Event 8 - $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event Day 1 | 2008 World Series of Poker

06-04-2008 17:43 UTC-7

Today's Tables of Death

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With registration still open, we currently have 160 players in the most stacked field you'll ever see outside the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Brunson. Ivey. Seidel. Matusow. Harman. Flack. Elezra. Nguyen. There isn't a single table that isn't deathly, but here are the worst of the worst:

Table 1: Gavin Griffin, Ram Vaswani, Jeffrey Lisandro, Markus Golser

Table 2: Josh Arieh, Max Pescatori, Mickey Appleman, Jennifer Harman, Ralph Perry

Table 6: Steve Zolotow, Scott Fischman, Robert Williamson III, James "mig.com" Mackey, Chau Giang, Tom Schneider

Table 15: Bill Chen, Greg "FBT" Mueller, David Bach, Eric Froehlich, Andy Black, Mike Wattel, Tim Phan, Layne Flack.

Table 18: Doyle Brunson, Freddy Deeb, Thor Hansen, Gary Benson

Tags: Jennifer Harman

Level: 1

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 0

06-04-2008 17:31 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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After a 30-minute delay, we're off!

06-04-2008 17:26 UTC-7

Ivey's Littlest Fan

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As players were finding their seats, Dario Minieri intercepted Phil Ivey, pleading for a photo op. The 6-foot-2 Ivey obliged the tiny Italian.

"I watch his videos of his bluffs. They're so sick," said Minieiri, who added that Ivey was his "idol."

Tags: Dario Minieri Phil Ivey

06-04-2008 17:05 UTC-7

Mixed Game Extravaganza to Begin Momentarily

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A small but elite field is taking their seats in the WSOP's first-ever $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, or, as we're calling it around the Poker News desk the "Mixed Game Extravaganza." 134 players are currently registered and there are more gold bracelets in this corner of the Amazon Room than the front window of Tiffany's.

As noted before, each 60-minute level has been divided into three 20-minute sub-levels. During minutes 1-20 of each level, the flop games will rotate every eight hands (2-7 Triple Draw, limit hold'em, and Omaha 8). The ante games rotate through minutes 20-40 (Razz, Stud, Stud 8) and the NL/PL games rotate through minutes 40-60 (NLHE and PLO with no ante).

Confused yet? I'm sure a fair amount of the players are with you.

Action should be underway shortly.

06-04-2008 08:13 UTC-7

World Championship Mixed Event Begins at 5 pm

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Jennifer Harman's game is well-suited to the challenges of the $10,000 Mixed Event World Championship

On Wednesday at 5 pm, action will begin in the $10,000 World Championship event, which features not one but eight different poker variations. To say that the winner here needs a well-rounded poker game is just a bit of an understatement.

Over the case of each hour, the players will rotate through the eight poker formats in this order:

1) Deuce-to-seven triple draw;
2) Fixed-limit hold'em;
3) Omaha-8 (hi/lo split);
4) Razz;
5) Seven-card stud;
6) Seven-card stud (hi/lo split, 8 or better);
7) No-limit hold'em;
8) Pot-limit Omaha.

Because of the presence of the stud games, there will a maximum of eight players per table. The first twenty minutes of each level will be spent playing games 1-3 on the list above, with the game changing every eight hands. The second twenty minutes will be for games 4-6, and the final 20 minutes will be used for variants 7-8. At the start of each new level the overall process starts anew.

This is a brand new event for the WSOP, so the winner will establish himself as the owner of an extra bit of poker lore. Expect most of the famed pros from the Vegas live games to be on hand for this one.