Welcome to the First Annual WSOP = White Suits Of Poker!
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The WSOP floor staff on duty have been a big talking point throughout the Rio poker room during this evening’s session of play, but the topic is not about the rules, it’s all about the white threads they’re rocking in a new tradition they’ve dubbed, “White Suit Sunday”.
Lead Tournament Supervisor Steve Frezer, who’s been working here at the WSOP for six years, was happy to share with us the story of how the idea came about.
“Actually, it started last week,” Frezer said. “We did it just for kicks. One of our other guys came in wearing one and we thought that was cool, so we all went out to the outlet stores and bought one each. From now on, in every Day 1d of the Main Event, we’re gonna be wearing white suits.”
Not all the supervisors were convinced to begin with: “We had one guy (Troy Stomer) thinking he was going to be the only one that’d turn up in a white suit, but as you can see, we’re all running around here in the same outfit – except for Robbie Thompson, he chickened out!”
Even 2005 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem was so impressed that he told Frezer that he was going to wear a white suit in the Main Event next year. We reckon that players like Tony ‘bond18’ Dunst would be a lock for White Suit Sunday (as his penchant for suits is well-known), but Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier has already gotten into the spirit of the occasion tonight with his get-up whilst playing in the Mothership.
By our judgement, we reckon that white’s all right! Looking sharp, lads!
flop, a player in middle position bet 2,600, and Vanessa Rousso called from the button. The turn was the 
, and this time Rousso's opponent checked. Rousso took the invitation to bet 4,800, and her opponent called.
. Rousso's opponent checked, and after pausing a good while Rousso checked as well.
for kings. Those were good, too, as she explained she had had a straight flush draw.
and Makhija check-called 2,600. The turn came 
, Makhija checked and his opponent bet out 5,400.
for a flush. Makhija held 
and Makhija sent 23,700 across the table, leaving him with 26,700.
, Pimlott checked again, Savage bet 2,600 and Pimlott again called. The river came 
and Pimlott bet out this time for 5,000. Savage folded and fell to 43,000. Pimlott has gotten himself over double starting stack and is sitting with right around 72,000.
as Thew dropped to just 6,000 while his opponent moved up to 25,000.
and both players checked to see the 
. David "Doc" Sands, acting with characteristic deliberation, his movements seemingly choreographed in super slo-mo, tapped the felt to check, and his opponent checked behind. The turn was the 
. Again acting slowly, Sands collected chips for a bet of 1,450, and his opponent called.
. Sands again sat motionless for 20 seconds or more, then carefully set out a bet of 5,050. His opponent held his head in his hands, rechecked his cards, then tapped the felt as he mucked.
to his lone opponent. The player fired 2,800 and Sexton gave it a moment of thought. He then folded his hand and gave up the pot, slipping back a tiny bit, but still sitting on a decent stack of over 50,000.