World Series of Poker – Main Event Day 1A Round up
- Filed under: General
- Date: Jul 5,2008
Today sees the end of the first day of play for the final event in the World Series. This event is so huge; it will run from the 3rd July to November 10, 2008. Because of this, the first day has actually been split into four “sub” days named Day1-A Day1-B Day1-C and Day1-D.
Currently registration for this tournament remains open until Sunday. Until then no one knows how many people will enter for the poker tournament where the only requirement is $10,000 and enough time to win your millions.
With 155 tables – there was a grand number of players in the field for the first evening. However after five minutes, we saw our first loss, a rather disappointed Mr Barry Clancy of Texas who lost with 2 aces against 3 jacks.
In the first day there were also three “feature” tables from ESPN, the main table including the 98 Champion Scotty Nguyen, and the two other feature tables including popular and well-known players Bill Gazes and Ciaran O’Leary.
Day one also saw to eliminate a few previous champions. Bobby Baldwin, Berry Johnston, and Dan Harrington all did not manage to continue. Today also saw witness to well known television celebrity Jason Alexander being knocked out mid-way into the day. However popular actor Ray Romano managed not to succumb to a loss and knuckled down to survive until day two.
The grand leader of Day1-A is Mark Garner with a staggering 194,900 chips from an initial 20,000.
Stay tuned as we cover the main event.
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