We arrived at the table, just in time to see Iori Yogo get payed off by his opponent. The board read 
, and his 
was the only hand tabled. The dealer counted out his stack, which totalled 7,050, which his opponent then proceeded to hand over.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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14,500
9,200
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9,200 |
The floor staff has just announced the final numbers for this tournament. There are 2,100 total entrants creating a prize pool of $1,890,000. A total of 216 players will be paid with the champion receiving $345,037 for his time, and the 216th place finisher receiving $1,927 for his efforts.
When we came to Katie Dozier and Andy Frankenberger's table, Dozier was already gone while Frankenberger was all in and at risk for his tournament life against two other players.
Frankenberger: 
Player 1:
Player 2: 
The flop came down 
giving Frankenberger a bunch of new outs. "I need an eight. I need an eight!" he said to the dealer as the turn was being dealt. It wasn't an eight though, it was the 
. The river was the 
, completing the board, awarding the pot to the player with .
Frankenberger got up from his table and headed for the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
We came by Ari Engel's table and he was involved in a small pot. Engel called a raise of 400 from a player in early middle position. From the big blind a player reraised to 1,400 and both players folded.
While seemingly inconsequential the pot led us to see what a big stack Engel was sporting. It was nearly 20,000 chips. Just a few seats over Dominik Nitsche was also supporting a monster stack for this level. He had even more than Engel with 22,500. The two are bound to collide at some point in the day as it doesn't look as if their table will break for a while.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
22,500
19,500
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19,500 |
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20,000 | |
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The buzz inside the walls of the Rio extends beyond just the tournaments on the 2013 World Series of Poker schedule. Online poker in Nevada is a very, very hot topic right now, and WSOP.com is making a lot of noise.
While the site has yet to launch, you can head to the Lambada Room of the Rio or look for one of the beautiful and friendly WSOP.com ladies walking the hallways to sign up for a free, personal WSOP.com online poker account. This is a great way to get a jump on the site's registration, and plenty of people have already taken this opportunity.
What's more is that the WSOP will be hosting daily raffles for everyone that has taken the time to register for WSOP.com at the Rio. What can you win? Plenty of fantastic prizes including 36 WSOP seats!
Players 21 years of age and older who sign up for a WSOP.com account will automatically be entered into the “36-Seat Giveaway” where a randomly-selected winner will win a seat into the next day’s first WSOP gold bracelet event. One of the events eligible in this promotion is the $111,111 One Drop High Roller No-Limit Hold’em tournament that is expected to feature a $10,000,000 prize pool and allow you to play poker with the biggest names in the game. In total, $182,333 in WSOP seats, including a seat to the WSOP Main Event, are being given away during this one-of-a-kind WSOP.com promotion.
In addition to the 36-Seat Giveaway, a “Hot Seat” promotion will allow any player who signs up for a WSOP.com online account and wears their WSOP.com patch on their chest at the table while playing an event to be randomly selected to receive 500 bonus dollars deposited directly into their WSOP.com online account once the site has received all regulatory approvals and launches.
With 62 WSOP gold bracelet events and three winners promised for the Main Event, this promotion includes $32,000 worth of value to those participating.
We didn't see where the money got in but Vanessa Selbst was holding 
on a board of 
. Her opponent was holding 
for a flopped set and that was good enough for Selbst to be counting out chips to ship over to him. Selbst is still above starting stack but is relatively short compared to the average and the blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,500
300
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300 |
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Victor Ramdin must've just entered at the last minute, or gone under the radar for most of the day, because we just recently found him among the field.
In a recent hand we saw Ramdin open to 400 from middle position. He fo-und one caller in the next seat over. The flop came down 
and Ramdin put out a bet of 600 only to be reraised to 1,300. Ramdin quickly folded and moved on to his next hand.
Even after that pot, Ramdin is still doing alright with just about double the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,900 | |
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Level: 6
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Maxim Lykov has flown mostly under the radar today as well. When we walked by his table he was raking in a huge pot and stacking up his chips quite high. He's got roughly nine times his starting stack and looks like he'll be cruising on it for a while.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
27,500 | |
|
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After a raise of 400 preflop, Neil Channing raised to 1,150 from the cutoff. Only the original raiser called.
On the flop of 
both players checked to see the on the turn. On the turn, the first to act player put out a bet of 1,500. From there Channing moved all in for 2,800 more. The player looked pained about it but eventually made the call.
Channing: 
Original Raiser: 
The river was the 
and that was good enough for Channing to double through here on day one.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
11,300
5,450
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5,450 |