Steve Venet is in the House

Today's special event has brought out many of the WSOP trappings reserved for special occasions. One such is the appearance within the rails of artist Steve Venet, the '60s songwriter whose pencil sketches of WSOP Main Events have been a fixture since the '70s. Among Venet's first sketches was a Rat Pack-era Frank Sinatra wielding casino chips at a Vegas table, and he's returned today to do sketches of players who he's already captured in other famous WSOP moments. Venet knocked off a Joe Hachem sketch early on, and was wrapping a Scotty Nguyen profile before the players adjourned.