Kent Washington, Erik Sagstrom Lead Day 1 at the 2010 WSOP
The 2010 World Series of Poker kicked off yesterday at the Rio in Las Vegas with two events: the $500 No-Limit Hold’em Casino Employees tournament (Event 1) and the $50,000 Players Championship (Event 2).
Before the tournaments began, the opening ceremonies took place, and the late Chip Reese was honored. In 2006 he took down the first $50K event at the WSOP. Sadly, in 2007 Reese passed away. The trophy for the $50K event is now named in his honor.
Event 1, the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, saw a number of 721 employees. The total prize pool reached $324,450. The winner of this event will take home the first place prize worth $71,374. In just twelve hours the massive field was reduced to 53. Among the notables who busted out early were the former WSOP tournament director Matt Savage and the poker manager at Aria Casino, Adam Altwies.
Kent Washington ended the day with the largest stack. He holds a total of 168,300.
Top Ten Chip Counts:
1. Kent Washington – 168,300
2. Jonathan Kotula – 108,700
3. Christopher Reider – 107,500
4. Samuel Sperrazza – 96,800
5. Arthur Vea – 95,800
6. Yuta Motoyama – 72,100
7. Matthew Hollinger – 71,700
8. Vincent Vandall – 68,200
9. Hoai Pham – 65,800
10. Zhen Cai – 65,000
The tournament resumes today at 2:30 p.m.
Event 2, the $50K Players Championship, attracted a field of 116 competitors. In the event entered some of the world’s best poker players such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phill Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, David Benyamine and Scotty Nguyen. The field generated a prize pool of just over $5.5 million. The top prize up for grabs is $1,559,043 and the top 16 players will all walk away with at least $98,331.
A total of six players busted out on the first day of this prestigious event: Dan Shak, Andrew “Browndog19″ Brown, Greg “FBT” Mueller, Mark Karam, Brian Townsend and Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
The top of the leader board is stacked with big-time professionals and the chip leader is the Swedish pro Erik Sagstrom, who ended play with 329,100.
Here are the Top Ten Chip Counts for Day 1:
1. Erik Sagstrom – 329,100
2. David Oppenheim – 313,800
3. Doyle Brunson – 269,200
4. Edwin Ting – 258,900
5. Justin Bonomo – 257,400
6. Joe Serock – 253,900
7. Steve Billirakis – 251,900
8. John Cernuto – 251,400
9. Vladimir Schmelev – 243,700
10. Barry Greenstein – 240,100
Play started yesterday at 5 p.m. and wrapped up early this morning. Play starts again today at 3 p.m.
Article by: Winiverse
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