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2010 WSOPE Main Event – Day 1b report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2010-09-25 03:16
Despite the slightly smaller Day 1A turn-out, Day 1B of the 2010 WSOPE’s Main Event managed to save face by improving on last year’s numbers. The improvement was quite marginal (12 players) but it was there nonetheless, to stroke the egos (and to line the pockets) of the organizers. 209 players coughed up the more than £10k buy-in , taking the total number of Main Event participants to 346.
The stars showed up in droves for the second day 1 flight of the
poker tournament. Daniel Negreanu was there, together with Phil Laak, Mike Matusow, Men Nguyen, Patrik Antonius and David Benyamine.
PokerStars was well represented through its professional players, but the Full Tilt Pros were present in numbers too.
Barry Shulman was the one who got the honor of calling the traditional “Shuffle up and deal” on account of his reigning champion status. Tom Dwan was still chasing the illusive
WSOP bracelet he’d missed out on during the summer, but his luck would not improve: he was sent to the rail by Antonio Esfandiari, fairly soon too, after a pocket 7s vs pocket Ks match-up.
His walk to the bar wasn’t a shameful one though. He was soon followed there by Jeff Madsen, Richard Ashby and Frank Kassela.
Victor Blom, still believed by many to be online poker sensation Isildur1, did much better though. He was one of those who’d managed to close in on the 100k mark by the end of the day. Antonio Esfandiari was among the large stacks too, together with John Dolan who made it all the way to second place on a 173k stack.
Phil Ivey also survived the day on a healthy stack: he’d managed to amass 94k chips.
James Mitchell finished with the chip lead at the end of the day, his 178k stack big enough for the overall Day 1 chip lead.
