Event #58: $10,000 Main Event
Dia 1b Começado
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #58: $10,000 Main Event
Dias: 1b
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2011 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Premiação
$64,531,000
Entries
6,865
Nível
43
Blinds
1,200,000 / 2,400,000
Ante
300,000
One Starting Day Down, Three More to Go; Here Comes Day 1b
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Welcome back to PokerNews' live coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker. Yesterday saw the start of the greatest tournament on the planet, the WSOP Main Event. A total of 897 players came out for Day 1a and you can expect another 1,100-1,200 players to be out in action today for Day 1b.
Last year, 1,489 players played on the second starting day, which was an increase of about 400 players over 2010's Day 1a. With numbers from the Main Event down a little bit so far, we should expect an increase from yesterday of about 200-300 players. Of course, the more the merrier, so we're hoping our estimates come up short.
At the end of the night yesterday, Fred Berger was the man bagging up the most chips — or biscuits as we like to call them. Berger stuffed a whopping 209,500 biscuits in his bag at the end of the night — nearly a 600% increase on the starting stack of 30,000. Berger may not be a household name in the poker world, but he has plenty of results to highlight.
Berger's biggest claim to fame in poker comes from a WSOP gold bracelet win in 2002. That year, Berger defeated Chris Ferguson heads up in the $3,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event to win the bracelet and $197,400. Also at the final table were Tom Schneider, An Tran, Tony Cousineau and Dennis Waterman. That gold bracelet isn't his only piece of WSOP jewelry. In May 2010, Berger won the $5,000 Championship Event at the WSOP Circuit Harrah's New Orleans stop. For that win, Berger earned a Circuit gold ring and the largest payday of his career worth $197,584.
Let's take a look at the top of the leader board after Day 1a.
Day 1a Top Five Stacks
| Place | Player | Chips |
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| 1 | Fred Berger | 209,500 |
| 2 | Shane Sigsbee | 182,600 |
| 3 | Kyle Burnside | 159,050 |
| 4 | Cedric Annen | 155,400 |
| 5 | Michael Bena | 150,350 |
Other notable stacks include Sebastian Ruthenberg (117,000), Olivier Busquet (98,975), Fatima Moreira De Melo (91,500), Soi Nguyen (87,325), Lex Veldhuis (82,350), Chris Bjorin (73,575), Annette Obrestad (68,125), Josh Brikis (68,025), Jason Alexander (63,150), Isaac Baron (50,650) and James Dempsey (48,750). You can view the full end-of-day chip count list of all 560 players that advanced from Day 1a here.
Day 1b is set to kick off later today at 12:00 PM PT here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The atmosphere is buzzing with the Main Event upon us and you can expect another great day of poker action to go down. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all the live updates, videos and photos you can handle. In the meantime, check out the July 8th update from "The Poker Ninja" herself, our very own Kristy Arnett.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Tan/Featured Table Notables
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Team Pro (Italy)
Notables in the Blue Section
Upon our first quick scan of the tables in the blue section, we spotted these familiar faces.
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Familiar Faces In Orange
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Players in Purple
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Tickle Me Orange
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Smirnov Starts Well
With the board reading 
the player in the hijack checked and Mikhail Smirnov bet 1,125 from the cutoff. The hijack called and they saw the river bring the 
. The hijack checked again and this time Smirnov tossed out a bet of 3,725. Apparently that bet was a bit too rich for the hijack who folded his hand.
Smirnov was up to 32,000 after the hand.
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A Double Stack Already??
With the Main Event being such a grueling tournament, if you were told at the start of day one that you would end the day with double what you started, you'd probably take it. In fact, since we didn't even lose half the players who started Day 1a yesterday, you'd be well above average. How about if you could do it within the first 10 minutes of the day? Yeah, we'd take it too.
From atop the side of the featured table, we saw a player all in and getting up from his seat already, not more than three or four hands into the day. Bryan Colin had 
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of his opponent and the two got it all in preflop. Sure enough, Colin hit a on the flop and that was all she wrote for his opponent. Colin now has double with what he started with and he will have a big advantage over his table to begin his day one.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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