Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day 1b Started
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$1,000
Prize Pool
$4,118,400
Entries
4,576
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Mega Field Day 1b
It's almost time for the second starting flight of competitors in Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em to take to the felt. Yesterday saw 1,932 runners come out and today should be much more of the same, if not more. When the day was all said and done, 272 remained. Paul Volpe was the man on top after bagging up a whopping 124,500 in chips.
Just like yesterday, today the players will go through another nine levels of action before bagging and tagging. This place is a mad house right now with everyone running around to find their seats and the "Shuffle up and deal!" announcement should come shortly.''
Stay tuned for coverage from this event right here on PokerNews.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/25
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
The button is in Seat 10 and the cards are in the air.
Who We've Spotted So Far
As always in these massive fields, finding the biggest names in poker is like finding a needle in a haystack. Even so, we were able to cower some of the Pavilion room and spot the following players. There's a good mix of older and young payers in this event, as well as a fair amount of female players. Even despite their differences in age, play or gender, they all have one similarity and that is they're on a quest for the most coveted prize in poker: a World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 |
4,500?
Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
In the announcements prior to the start of the tournament, Ty Stewart was on the mic and thanked the players for coming out and participating. He went on to mention the number 4,500 and that this is how big they expect the field to get. Last year, Marcel Vonk defeated a field of 3,844 players to take home the gold in the last of the $1,000 events, but that number looks to be shattered today.
Nearly 2,000 player on Day 1a and the later the starting day, the larger the field in nearly all tournaments. With those extra few hundred bodies in the event, you can expect the first-place prize to get well over the $600,000 mark and even approach the $700,000 range.
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Level 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
Hopefully all of our readers are enjoying PokerNews' coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker. We're proud to be the official live reporting team again this year and it wouldn't be without all of your support. We'd just like to remind everyone that with such massive field sizes in many of these events, we're unable to track every single player in the chips counts as often as we'd like to.
Things on the tournament floor are constantly changing from hand to hand and we know you want every single piece of information you can handle. Many pros in all of these events update their Twitter account on the regular, so you might want to check out the PokerNews Twitter page to see what the players themselves are saying about their progress in the events.
More Notables
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 | |
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3,000 |
Shorr Busts One Early
Shannon Shorr is on the move early and you might want to get out of his way or you'll end up like the recent player he faced off against -- on the rail. Shorr was all in preflop with 
versus an opponent's 
. Shorr missed the flop, but was able to hit a king on the turn and win the hand. He had the most chips and sent his opponent to the rail en route to increasing his stack to 7,300 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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7,300 | 4,300 |
MacPhee's Aggression Pays Off
We arrived at the table to see the flop of 
laying in the middle of the table and three wagers made. The first player had bet 175 and the next player raised to 375. Kevin MacPhee was the third player and he reraised to 1,125. Action fell back on the first player and he thought for a tiny bit and then released his hand. The second player took just about as much time, maybe a tad bit longer, and then reraised all in. MacPhee didn't hesitate to get the rest of his money in and put himself at risk early.
MacPhee: 
Opponent: 
MacPhee held top pair, a straight draw and a backdoor flush draw while his opponent held two overs, a gutshot and a flush draw. The turn brought the 
, which put MacPhee behind in the hand, but it did bring in a club to give him a flush draw. The river completed that draw when the 
fell and MacPhee made his flush. His opponent's two pair went down in flames. MacPhee was all in for 3,475 and has moved to just about 8,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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8,000 | 5,000 |