WSOP Main Event 2006 - Day 1a - At A Glance

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"SHUFFLE UP AND DEAL!"

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A few names spotted:

Dan Harrington
Scotty Nguyen
Andy Black
Barry Greenstein
Amir Vahedi
Juha Helppi
Andrew Bloch
Bruce Atkinson
Joe Bartholdi
Hoyt Corkins
William Chen
Tony G
Tony Chessa
David Pham
Kristie Gazes
Mimi Tran
Clonie Gowan

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A few early photos

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More names:

John Shipley
John 'Decider' Hansmeyer
Alex Jacob
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John Hewston
Dave Penley
Gala Ash
Tex Barch

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And we have our first English casualty...

Accompanied to the room by Paul Parker, is the rather devestated face of Tony Cartwright.

Tony raised preflop with sevens, MB called.

Flop = 7-rag-rag

MB bet, Tony called.

Turn = another rag

MB bet, Tony reraised, MB called.

River = 9

MB moves all-in, Tony calls.

MB wins with pocket nines.

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Crikey! More names...

Thomas Wahlroos
Lee Watkinson
Minh Li (sp?)
Donna from 'That 70's Show'
Layne Flack
John Duthie
Steve 'The Nugget' Davis

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There are 15 Noregian players here today, three of which are:

Andreas Hagen
Thomas Middelthon
Jan Sjavik

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1st Prize is in excess of 10 million dollars!!!

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And with players braced for the first break, here are a few chip counts:

Brian Haverson -- 8,700
Thomas Wahlroos -- 11,500
Andrew Bloch -- 13,600
Mark Vos -- 7,525
Roland De Wolfe
Thomas Middelthon -- 13,050
Andreas Hagen -- 14,925
Jan Boubli --14,800
Rob Sherwood -- 18,500
Lee Watkinson -- 6,525
Phil Peters -- 9,800

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David Pham -- 10,800
Barry Greenstein -- 12,475
Jim Betchel -- 10,400
Brett Jungblud -- 8,500
Martin Wendt -- 11,400
Mickey Wernick -- 7,700
William Chen -- 10,700
Dan Harrington -- 8,750

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'Swimming With The Devilfish' author, Des Wilson, is currently on 10,300

He's played and won about 5 hands, and lost one with pocket tens. Preflop action, Des knew he was in trouble when MB smoothcalled his flop bet on a board of A-J-rag.

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David Pomroy -- 14,200

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And Des Wilson is OUT -

I just happened to be passing Table 149(!) when I saw a pot with about 2,500 in it and a flop being dealt.  That was:  .
Matey checked to Des (it was heads up) who bet 2,000, finding a pretty quick check-raise to 4,000 coming back at him.  He called.
Turn:     Now Matey fired out 3,000, leaving himself about that much behind.  Again, call from Des.
River:     The rest of Matey's chips are bet out, and it appears Mr. Wilson was covered, for when he called and was shown to his , he was walking to the corridor.

"I'm very disappointed," the pokerographer remarked while heading past the popcorn stand with me in tow like the update-vulture I am.

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Rob Sherwood bets around 1.5k onto a board of

MB calls with , Rob mucks