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

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It appears as though our chip leader is bracelet winner Mark Vos, who has around the 80k mark.

He just doubled up with Q-J versus A-A on a Q-J-rag flop.

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Event 39: $10,000 NLH F/O - MAIN EVENT - Day 1a

Level 3

Blinds = 100/200

15 minutes left

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Brits and fellow Midlanders John Shipley and Phil Peters are both OUT.

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Minh Ly -- 9,400
John Duthie -- 29,225

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Lee Watkinson is down to 8,700 after losing a big pot and doubling up Mateyboy.

K-K v T-T

Board =

Unfortunately for the bracelet winner, Mateyboy had the

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Roland De Wolfe raises 700 from the button, Mateyboy cubed call from the small blind, big blind, and trap 2 (limper).

Flop =

MB bets 1.2k, fold, fold, Roland raises to 4k.

MB dwells for a while before finally making a call, leaving himself just a few thousand behind.

Turn =

check check

River =

check check

MB shows A-K, Roland mucks

The former WPT winner is now on 18,200

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The players are now on a tea break, which I believe is 90 minutes long.

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Clonie Gowan is OUT

an accident with Pocket Queens

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Mark Vos is still your current chip leader, and by quite a way too.

The young Aussie has 80k, his nearest rival being recent WPT winner Joe Tehan, who has just over 40,000

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100/200(25)

John Hewston -- 13,000
Tex Barch -- 13,725
Thomas Wahlroos -- 9,900
Lee Watkinson -- 8,425
Big Armo -- 22,000
Jon Hennighan -- 10,400
Roland De Wolfe -- 17,800
Thomas Middelthon -- 5,225
Layne Flack -- 4,35

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Paul Clark, Tobey Maguire, and David Benyamine are all OUT.

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Andrew Bloch -- 11,600
Jeremy Bates -- 7,500
Andrew Leonard -- 25,000
Kirill Gerasimov -- 4,875
Andy Black -- 18,500
Layne Flack -- 11,100
Joe Bartholdi -- 5,350
Hoyt Corkins -- 13,325

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Dan Harrington is OUT.

The veteran and former Main Event winner who made two consecutive finals in 2003 and 2004 (a feat which is often greeted as one of poker's greatest complishments) was finally eliminated by another veteran of the game.

Mike Sexton's Pocket Queens were more than enough to fend off Harrington's flush draw, which never arrived.

Harrington received a much deserved round of applause.

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Rob Sherwood -- 29,500
Jim Betchel -- 18,550
Steve Davis -- 13,825
Roland De Wolfe -- 3,675
Dutch Boyd -- 17,675
Scotty Nguyen -- 25,250
Michael Mizrachi -- 6,200
David Sklansky -- 7,225
William Chen -- 6,850
Mike Sexton -- 22,000
John Hewston -- 7,700

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Might I interject my Climber of the Day at this point?

Drumroll please....it's Thomas Wahlroos.

Down to 1,500 after two levels, I highly expected him to have made a slight recovery or busted (no detriment to him as a player - in several European events he's shown himself to be top calibre) but finding him with 21,000 now it appears that his evening has gone much better than his afternoon.  Having worked his way back to his starting stack, he got in a battle of the blinds, eventually making a big all-in with .  As for his opponent: "He called my all-in with pocket Sevens, so he deserved it" when he hit the flop and made his stack comfortable.