Day 1 Complete - Ivey and Harman among the big stacks | 2010 World Series of Poker

For many of the 170 players who entered tonight's $10,000 Stud Hi-Lo event, the cards in front of them were little more than an afterthought. A distraction. The best they could do to keep their minds off the tens or even hundreds of thousands in prop bets they stood to lose should Tom Dwan win his first WSOP bracelet tonight.

As our Stud-8 players completed their last hand of the night, Dwan was all-in for the last of his chips and as his Q-6 went up against Simon Watt's pocket nines, about half a dozen players from this tournament sprinted across the room to watch the board run out. When Watt's nines held, Negreanu and Matusow came running back to bag their chips flailing their arms and squealing like little kids as they narrowly avoided financial ruin.

Oh, as for the tournament we're supposed to be covering here? Approximately 112 of our 170 starters are bagging and tagging their chips and will return for Day 2 tomorrow at 3 p.m. Although bracelet winners Greg Raymer, Matt Hawrilenko, Annie Duke, Ted Forrest, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Todd Brunson found themselves on the rail during the early levels, the field is still chock-full of poker luminaries, two of whom are sitting pretty near the top of the leaderboard. Phil Ivey ended the evening with about 109,800 in chips and right behind him is the tiny but mighty Jennifer Harman, who ended the night with 93,500. Also still in contention is defending champion Jeffrey Lisandro who has 40,500 in chips.

Join us again tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time as we play down to a final table. For all of us at PokerNews, thanks for following along. Good night and good luck from Las Vegas.