Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Started
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #8: $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
$3,760,200
Entries
4,178
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Day 1b Begins
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The Pavillion Room has filled once again today with players dreaming of a WSOP bracelet. Today is the 2nd starting day of the $1k NLHE. Yesterday a field of 2,116 played down to 312 players. Total registration numbers (including yesterday's starting field) are currently at 3,900 and will likely grow to surpass last year's registration total of 4,345.
We'll be here all day giving you all the bad beats, bust outs and breakdowns of today's action so stay tuned to PokerNews!
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Blinds: 25/25
Ante: 0
Internet Woes
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We seem to be having a little trouble with the Internet today in the Rio Pavilion. As always, we'll do our best to bring you everything we can from the floor, but please bear with us if things seem a bit slower than normal.
Check Out the PokerNews Twitter Page for Even More Updates
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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.
Harley Roars to Fast Start
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We caught up with the action as the board read 
and 750 chips sitting in the pot. Our fellow PokerNews reporter Harley Stoffmaker, playing in his first WSOP event on one of his rare days off, had led out with a bet of 375 and his opponent studied before making the crying call.
Stoffmaker quickly flipped up his 
and his opponent mucked his cards, offering a "nice river kid."
With a relatively quick structure, accumulating chips early on is imperative, and Stoffmaker is off to a great start.
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Here's all you need to know to get back in the loop:
Alan Larson on Fortunate End of Dispute
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We heard two players in the midst of a heated discussion and looked over to see a board of 
, with a large pile of chips in the middle of the table. Alan Larson had his 
flipped up for a flopped set, and his opponent was desperately pleading his case to the dealer and anyone else who would listen.
Apparently, after a bet of 475 by Larson, the unnamed opponent had gone all-in and mistakenly thought he saw Larson fold his hand. The unnamed opponent, believing he has won the pot, tossed his cards towards the muck as well and waited for the dealer to push the chips his way.
Unfortunately for him, Larson had not mucked and his sixes were there for all to see. The unnamed opponent claimed vociferously that he had held the nut flush and begged the dealer to retrieve his hand. Larson showed no mercy however and said "we all know the rules kid, if you had it you would have turned it over." A floorman was called over and much to the dismay of the unnamed player, his hand was declared dead, as it had touched the muck. We may never know if he truly held two spades in his hand and the player was sent to the rail with the baddest of bad-beat stories.
Larson doubled-up on the hand and now sits with 6,975 chips.
Notable Names
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We took a quick stroll around the Pavilion to see what familiar faces we could find.
So far we've spotted Kathy Liebert, Masaaki Kagawa, Humberto Brenes, Phil Gordon, David Williams, Victor Ramdin, Shannon Shorr, Amnon Filippi, Nikolay Evdakov, Gavin Griffin, Gavin Smith, Dwight Pilgrim, Layne Flack, Sorel Mizzi, Allen Kessler and Eddy Sabat. Stay tuned to PokerNews for the latest on player arrivals, hand updates and chip counts.
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Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0