This year PokerNews is getting a list of all registered players on Day 1's directly from the official Harrah's feed. The good news? We will have a full list of all the players that entered the event just a few hours after it starts. The bad news? It's just impossible for PokerNews to update a large percentage of the Day 1 starters based on the sheer sizes of the fields. We'll be doing our best and updating the page with all the counts we have, meaning the top 10 chip counts to the right of your page should always be fairly accurate.
When we import the chip counts directly from Harrah's at the end of the day, it will automatically bust players who have no chips and we'll have a much firmer grasp on updating all the counts on Day 2's.
We realize this may cause some confusion, but it was important for both PokerNews and Harrah's to have full player lists in the system on Day 1.
The numbers are in folks, a total of 721 players entered the first event at the 2010 World Series of Poker. Although that number is slightly down from last years 866, it still created a first-place prize worth $71,424! That's quite the payday for a buy-in of just $500.
Getting to the money will earn you $914 and that means you've made it down to the final 72 players. A total prizepool of $324,450 will be awarded and here's how the final table payouts will look.
Ramy Zakaria has been spotted at Table 17. Last year, Zakaria took a big stack deep into the tournament, eventually finishing 34th for a $2,045 payday. Zakaria is poised for another deep run as his table's big stack with 22,000.
John Podobnik, a player from Niagara Falls, Canada, is sitting in seat two at Jack McClelland's table. Sitting in middle position, action was folded to him and he went all in for his last 1,650 chips. The player to his immediate left called and the remaining players folded.
Podobnik flipped over and wasn't happy to see his opponent's . However, when the flop brought , things were looking up for our Canadian. The hand finished with the on the turn and the on the river, leaving Podobnik with just over twice as many chips as he had before the hand.
Andy Phan limped in from early position and so too did an opponent in middle position. A player in the big blind raised and Phan re-raised all in. The middle-position player folded and the player in the big blind called off the rest of his stack.
Phan:
Opponent:
The board ran and Phan was awarded the pot, eliminating his opponent.
Phan is a dealer at the Capitol Casino in Downtown Sacramento, California and is currently sitting with over 11,000 chips.
Joe Ramos, of San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino in Highland, California, got the best of three all-in opponents with a straight flush.
Ramos, sitting in second position, led out with a raise to 600. The player in fourth position called, putting himself all in. The player in the hijack position called, as did the player in the cutoff, also putting himself all in.
With two players already having committed all of their chips, the flop came . The player in the hijack bet his last 500 chips and Ramos called.
Ramos, having everyone covered, tabled . The player next to him showed , the player in the hijack position showed and the cutoff player showed .
The turn was the , giving the cutoff a queen-high flush and, for now, the best hand. However, the on the river gave Ramos a nine-high straight flush and about 13,000 chips to boot.
The floor was called to Table 45 in the Pavilion Room here at the Rio when a player recklessly splashed his chips into the pot after taking a bad beat. When the floor arrived a player at the table spoke out.
"He's been dropping f-bombs ever since he sat down!" the player complained.
"Let the dealer talk and shut it!" the player in question returned.
Eventually the floor took control of the situation and the player who splashed the pot was issued a warning, but the situation is still toxic at the table.
It is important to remember that Harrah's now has a penalty tracking program in place that will be able to track a player's penalties for the entire World Series. This should help to keep players in line and allow the staff to manage incidents better.
Some of the players we've been focusing on today are moving up and down in the standings.
Caesars Windsor dealer Cary Lucier, who was involved in a big hand against last year's champ, Andrew Cohen, is now sitting at 24,000 chips. Bellagio Tournament Director Jack McClelland is up to 3,800 after being down to about 1,300 earlier in the day. Anthony Yeh has 4,500 in chips, and Chester McQuillen is in danger with only 1,075.
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and wasn't happy to see his opponent's 
. However, when the flop brought 
, things were looking up for our Canadian. The hand finished with the 
on the turn and the 
on the river, leaving Podobnik with just over twice as many chips as he had before the hand.
and Phan was awarded the pot, eliminating his opponent.
. The player in the hijack bet his last 500 chips and Ramos called.
, giving the cutoff a queen-high flush and, for now, the best hand. However, the 
on the river gave Ramos a nine-high straight flush and about 13,000 chips to boot.