Event 6 - $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-01-2009 12:28 UTC-12

Who's Here?

Things are starting to fill out a bit at the tables in the back right corner of the Brasilia Room. A partial list of players in attendance would include Jerry Buss, Chad Brown, Bill Chen, Michael Mizrachi, "Miami" John Cernuto, Katja Thater, Chau Giang and Daniel Negreanu, but there are plenty of other notables in the field. Check out the chip counts page for a full rundown of who we've spotted so far.

And of course, the defending champion, Eric Brooks, is here to try to pull a Thang Luu and go back-to-back in this event.

06-01-2009 12:06 UTC-12

Let's Get it On

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The players are in their chairs, and the turnout looks a little shaky so far for this pro-heavy field. There are only 79 players registered so far, though we expect a few dozen more to add their names over the next couple hours. After the uttering of the most famous words in poker, the cards are in the air, and we are underway here in the Seven-Card Stud World Championship!

Level: 1

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 0

06-01-2009 11:20 UTC-12

Carpenters Aren't the Only Stud Experts

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Welcome, poker fans, to the first $10,000 "World Championship" event of the 2009 World Series of Poker. Today the very best players seven-card stud players in the world will enter the Amazon Room, pull up a chair at an eight-handed table, and try to win the title of Seven-Card Stud World Champion.

Last year 158 players entered this tournament. It was a relative unknown, Eric Brooks, who took down the tournament and the $415,856 and gold bracelet that went along with it.

This year the official 2009 World Series of Poker Staff Resource Guide (a 232-page tome we wouldn't force anyone to read) is predicting a field of 166, an increase of eight players over last year. We'll see how accurate that prediction is soon enough.

Play should be underway at 5pm. PokerNews, the official live-update provider of the 2009 WSOP, will be there all the way from the first bring-in bet to the final elimination. Stick around! A world champion is in the making.