Just before the announcement of "shuffle up and deal," Hellmuth strolled into the tournament area and took his seat. He was dealt into the first hand which he raised from under the gun, winning the blinds and antes.
When a floor supervisor was asked about the alleged one-round penalty Hellmuth was to serve, a reply of "it's been overruled" was given.
As we reported just prior to the conclusion of last night's play, Phil Hellmuth will be serving a one-orbit penalty and sitting out the first nine hands of play. With the blinds and antes where they are, this time-out will cost Hellmuth a total of 81,000 chips, or roughly 11% of his total stack.
It should come as no suprise that Hellmuth starts Day 6 back at the main ESPN featured table on the Milwaukee's Best Light stage. With just moments until the cards are in the air, the other eight players have arrived, unbagged their chips, and have been mic'd up by the crew, but "The Poker Brat" is nowhere in sight.
Official seat assignments have now been released for Day 6 of the 2008 WSOP Main Event, with 79 players returning to action for the noon start. Mark Ketteringham will begin the day as the chip leader, stacked at 5,800,000 overnight. The players will be seated at nine tables in the Amazon “Green” section, surrounding and including the ESPN feature area.
The chip leader at each table is denoted by boldface text. The table and seat assignments are as follows:
(Table 1)
Seat 1: Bob Whalen – 1,382,000
Seat 2: Paul Snead – 1,572,000
Seat 3: Christopher Zapf – 297,000
Seat 4: Brian Tatum – 780,000
Seat 5: Aaron Gordon – 3,369,000
Seat 6: Jason Glass – 629,000 Seat 7: David Rheem – 2,586,000
Seat 8: Thomas Keller – 245,000
Seat 9: Garrett Beckman – 1,860,000