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WSOP 2010 – Day 2:first bracelet awarded
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-05-31 09:04
The second day of the 2010 WSOP saw event #1, the $500 Casino Employees event come to an end. This also meant that the very first bracelet of the 41st edition of the Series was awarded. Its beneficiary was Hoai Pham, a casino dealer from San Diego, who came to Las Vegas for this event. Pham took home the coveted piece of golden jewelry, together with a $71,424 top prize.
Day 1 of the Casino Employees event has left 53 players in contention of the original 721 starters.
Pham’s win came at the end of a 12-hand long heads-up session against Arthur Vea. The final hand of the event saw Pham’s pocket rockets get all the chips into the middle against Vea’s pocket 4s on a flop of 7,2,Q rainbow. The turn and the river did nothing to help Vea and the first winner of the series was crowned. Pham asked for the Vietnamese anthem to be played when the bracelet was handed over to him.
Day 2 of the marathon $50,000 Players Championship event saw some more grinding logged by the participants. At the end of the second day of give and take, it was Kirk Morrison who had the chip lead, having amassed a massive stack of 741,000 chips. Obviously, due to the slow drop-out rate and to the high number of “name” players in the starting field, many of the well known professionals have moved on to Day 3, among them Robert Mizrachi and Daniel Alaei.
PokerStars’ Barry Greenstein and George Lind remained in contention as well, though both of them will belly up to the tables on day 3 behind some pretty flimsy stacks.
The third event currently running is the first of the $1,000 NL Holdem events. An impressive number of 2,600 players showed up for Day 1A of the event, and loads more are expected to register on Day 1B. 276 players were left standing at the end of Day 1A, and Terry Fleischer had the biggest stack in the house: a 199,300 chip monster. Nancy Todd Tyner followed Fleischer in the chip count. Jerrymee Jose and Drew Crawford were right there at the top as well.
Amarillo Slim, Vanessa Rousso and Tommy Vedes also survived to day 2. Day 2 of the
WSOP would see the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo event kick off later too.
