Combined with the 1,297 from yesterday, that puts the field at 2,455 so far. We expect that Day 1c and Day 1d will have far larger fields.
2008 World Series of Poker
39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event
Day: 1b
Players Left 9 / 6,844
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Combined with the 1,297 from yesterday, that puts the field at 2,455 so far. We expect that Day 1c and Day 1d will have far larger fields.
and was up against 
.The board ran out
and Bellia was butchered by a straight on the turn.
flop the small blind checked and Warne bet 1,300. A player in late position called and the small blind then moved all in for 7,975. Warne called and after the late-position player gave up his hand Shane needed his 
to hold up against his opponent's 
. The turn brought the 
and the river the 
and Warne won a 29,000 pot.
They saw a flop of
and the action was checked to Wise, who fired out a pot-sized bet. Vaswani made the call, leaving himself only a few chips behind, with Channing folding his hand.Vaswani tossed his last chips into the middle holding
for just a flush draw as Wise called with 
. Vaswani failed to hit a spade on the turn or river and is left heading to an early dinner.
, he bet 1,500 and was called by his lone opponent. He checked the river, then called when his opponent bet 5,000. The other player showed 
for a flopped full house, which was good.A few hands later, Zuccarello raised from the small blind to 2,500 and was called by the big blind. Zuccarello bet 3,600 when the flop came down
, but had to fold when his opponent raised all in to 15,000.Those two defeats have left Zuccarello with 12,000 chips.
"I'll give you a signal," he said to the film crew, tugging on his ear and brushing his shoulder like a third-base coach. A few hands later the player in the cutoff raised to 850 and Hershiser looked over to the camera crew and tugged on his ear. He moved all in as the cameras came over. When the cutoff called and showed
to Orel's 
, it looked like the Bulldog's Main Event was about to end.But just as the New York Mets and Oakland A's learned in in 1988, never underestimate the Bulldog. The flop came
to give Hershiser top pair, and when the board ran out 
he doubled up to 5,350. And once again, the cameras were forced to retreat, to wait for what could be a very long time.
Dunbar showed
and Verkerk . The board ran out 
, and Verkerk's tens held up. Verkerk is up to 15,300, while Dunbar has slipped to 24,000.
, Vanessa Rousso bet out 1,000, a middle-position player raised to 2,000 and Rousso called. The turn was the , and Rousso check-called a 2,000 bet from her opponent. The river was the 
and both players checked. Rousso's pocket sixes were good against her opponent's
and she raked in the pot, increasing her stack to 37,000.
. Dost made the call.The river was the
and Young fired out 4,650. Dost made the call. Young showed Dost the nuts with 
and Dost mucked his hand.Young is now at 50,000.
He says that he was walking around one time with about $160,000 in cash and was approached by five men in plain clothes and they were trying to rob him. One thing lead to another and a shootout ensued. Obviously, Formica survived to tell the tale. He never mentioned what happened to the money, however.
