Event #58: $10,000 Main Event Dia 1d | 2011 World Series of Poker

Event #58: $10,000 Main Event

Dia 1d Começado

2011-07-10 17:44 UTC

Day 1d: The Final Flight Takes Off at Noon

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It's almost time for the final starting day of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. Yesterday was Day 1c and the largest starting day of the three so far with 2,181 players coming out to action. Day 1d is always the largest, so we can expect the numbers to be massive here today. Many WSOP officials are saying that the total size of today's final starting flight will be well over 3,000. A few even commented that they should cap out at around 4,100. The total field size so far is 4,063 entrants.

Fred Berger emerged as chip leader after Day 1a with 209,500 in chips. After Day 1b, Ben Lamb bagged the most with 188,925. After Day 1c, Kevin Song ended with 163,325. It's interesting to note that Berger is the overall chip leader so far after playing in the starting day with the least amount of players (897). From there, the larger the starting the field, the smaller the chip leader's stack at the end of the day. If that trend sticks today, the Day 1d chip leader will finish with the least amount of the four Day 1 chip leaders. As stated before, no overall Day 1 chip leader has ever gone on to win the WSOP Main Event. Joe Cada was Day 1c chip leader in 2009, but he was far from the overall leader entering the Day 2s.

Song, the leader from yesterday's flight, is a gold bracelet winner and has plenty of solid results on the WSOP felt. His bracelet win came back in 1997 in the $2,000 Limit Hold'em event. For that win, Song earned $397,120 in prize money. He holds $848,596 in WSOP all-time earnings and over $3.275 million in career tournament earnings. He has eight WSOP final tables. His ending stack is good enough for fifth on the overall leader board.

Overall Top Five Chip Stacks

Place	Player	Chips	Starting Day
1	Fred Berger	209,500	1a
2	Ben Lamb	188,925	1b
3	Shane Sigsbee	182,600	1a
4	Andrew Hinrichsen	175,480*	1b
5	Kevin Song	163,325	1c

*Hinrichsen's chip count has an error because there is no way to have 175,480 in chips due to the smallest domination chip being 25. This is his official chip count as given by the WSOP.

Play kicks off today at 12:00 PM PT again and it's going to be an exhilarating day of poker. As always with Day 1d, there will be hundreds and hundreds of big names in the field as they like to wait until the last starting day to play. Many of them enjoy playing without a break before their Day 2w while others enjoy how large the field size is.

Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the live coverage straight from the Rio. Players will be spread out across both the Pavilion and Amazon Room, but we'll be scouring both all day long. While you wait, check out the July 10th update video from our very own Lynn Gilmartin. We apologize in advance for our lack of dance skills.

Nível: 1

Blinds: 50/100

Ante: 0

2011-07-10 19:11 UTC

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Nível 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Holly Madison, Jack Effel, and Phil Hellmuth jointly give the Shuffle Up and Deal

Tournament Director Jack Effel gave the daily announcements here on the bracelet stage in the Pavilion Room. Among the highlights was Phil Gordon presenting Phil Hellmuth with an award for biggest contributor to Bad Beat on Cancer during the 2011 WSOP.

When presented with the award, Hellmuth deadpanned, "I finally won something." The entire room seemed to know Hellmuth finished runner up three times this year, so the joke got a pretty good laugh. After that, Hellmuth was joined by Holly Madison, of Playboy, "The Girls Next Door," and "Peepshow" fame, and they jointly gave the ceremonial "Shuffle up and deal!"

With that, the cards are in the air and Day 1d is officially underway.

2011-07-10 19:16 UTC

Notables in Black

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Still some empty seats, but a quick pass through the Black section here in the Pavilion Room at the start of play reveals a number of familiar folks seated and ready for action.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
	30,000
Owais Ahmed	30,000
Antonio Esfandiari	30,000
	30,000
Max Pescatori	30,000
	30,000
Abe Mosseri	30,000
Barry Greenstein	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Vanessa Rousso	30,000
Liv Boeree	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Dani Stern	30,000
Miguel Proulx	30,000
Alex Wice	30,000
	30,000
Josh Tieman	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000

2011-07-10 19:17 UTC

Who's In The Tan Section? (Feature Tables, Too...)

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Bertrand Grospellier	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Alex Kostritsyn	30,000
Micah Raskin	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Anthony Gregg	30,000
Mike Minetti	30,000
	30,000

2011-07-10 19:17 UTC

Still I Walk Up & Down on the Blue Sky Mine ...

... there'll be pay in your pocket tonight!

That's a Midnight Oil reference, for those of you keeping score at home.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
	30,000
Dwyte Pilgrim	30,000
Rene Angelil	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Justin Young	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Jennifer Tilly	30,000
Waki Waki	30,000

2011-07-10 19:23 UTC

Making it Rain in Purple

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Julian Thew	30,000
Age Spets	30,000
	30,000
Johan van Til	30,000
Scott Bohlman	30,000
	30,000
Francesco Torres	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Tony Cousineau	30,000

2011-07-10 19:24 UTC

Notables in Pavilion White

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
	30,000
Noah Boeken	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Prahlad Friedman	30,000
Nelly	30,000
Paul Magriel	30,000
John Juanda	30,000
Tom Marchese	30,000
Alexandre Gomes	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Mark "Pegasus" Smith	30,000
Victor Ramdin	30,000
Jesse Martin	30,000

2011-07-10 19:26 UTC

Orange Crush

We've just taken a quick scan around the Orange section, and it's pretty well scattered with notables. Most notable is the fact that we have a couple of former Main Event final tablists with us over here. In 2006, Mike Binger finished in third place overall behind Paul Wasicka and Jamie Gold, good enough for a score of more than $4 million for Binger. (Incidentally, brother Nick just one-upped him this week by winning the family's first bracelet.)

Two years later, the November Nine was formed, and Ivan Demidov was one of the inaugural members. He made it all the way to heads-up before falling to Peter Eastage, a feat that earned him more than $5.8 million. Demidov is here in our section today, too.

Joe Cada took the title the next year, besting Darvin Moon heads-up. Moon is one of those hard-to-describe characters in the poker world, and he's made his return to the WSOP today in the Orange section as well.

We're also privileged to have a 2010 November Niner in our area as John Dolan, the sixth-place finisher, is here.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Robert Williamson III	30,000
Olga Varkonyi	30,000
Nichoel Jurgens	30,000
Ivan Demidov	30,000
John Dolan	30,000
Matthew Jarvis	30,000
Steve Zolotow	30,000
	30,000
Cyndy Violette	30,000
	30,000
Lana O'Brien	30,000
Michael Chow	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Shawn Sheikhan	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
	30,000
Michael Binger	30,000
	30,000
	30,000