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

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Overnight chip counts:

Fran Cipriano -- 123,200
Ken Jacobs -- 119,106
Paul McCaffrey -- 110,650
John Kincaid -- 107,500
Joe Fuhriman -- 98,250
George Lopez -- 98,125
Mike Erstling -- 94,075
Sean Le -- 94,050
Paul Kitsos -- 92,850
WeiKai Chang -- 92,575
Paramjit Gill -- 85,650
Mark Vos -- 85,375
Jeffrey Lisandro -- 85,025
Matthew Maroon -- 83,150
Eric Buchman -- 82,450
Justin Diamond -- 81,850
Nathan Wilt -- 80,225
Phil Cordano -- 80,125
Aaron Clark -- 78,925
Erik Friberg -- 77,675

Others:

Julian Gardner -- 60,325
Layne Flack -- 56,300
Mike Tindall -- 44,475
Rob Sherwood -- 43,625
Tony Bloom -- 38,175
Thomas Wahlroos -- 37,800
David Clayton -- 37,050
Jim Betchel -- 36,700
Andreas Hagen -- 35,100
John Armstrong -- 31,700
Hoyt Corkins -- 29,725
Barry Greenstein -- 28,450
Allen Kessler -- 26,950
Steve Davis -- 23,100
David Sklansky -- 29,500
Jeremy Bates -- 15,400
Mickey Wernick -- 14,750
John Duthie -- 14,675
Scotty Nguyen -- 14,350
Kristy Gazes -- 13,575

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Other names...

Ron Rose
Mel Judah
Cameron Angus
Dewey Tomko
AndrewT
David Williams
Iwan Jones
Cupcake
Evelyn Ng
Greek Jack
Paul Jackson

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Cupcake is down to 5k after running Pocket Kings into a set of Threes

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Even more names...

Simon Zach
Bill Gazes
Barry Shculman
Ron Jeremy
Johnny Lodden
Edgar Skjervold
Chris Ferguson
Luke Smith
Todd Brunson
Stephen Hendry

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Morning!  Another day, another 2,138 players.  Probably.  (That's how many played Day 1a)

But today is heavier on the blondeites, with Marc Goodwin and Dave from the Poker House giving it a go... So after my extra half hour of getting ready time (OK, lying in bed staring at the alarm on my phone) thanks to Snoops I am refreshed and ready to go gather evidence from the early stages of play.

Already heard a story, courtesy of blondeite SuffolkPunch:  He saw Phil Ivey getting into a 4xraise preflop war in the first level (go on, guess Ivey's hand) - and on a Queen-high flop, the Mateyboy still didn't feel like letting his pocket Tens go... the standard of play here is variable, to say the least.

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Also spotted:

Doyle Brunson
Mike Caro
Darren Grosvenor
David Williams' mum
Paul Sandells
M3Boy
Mark Hawkins
Ken Power
Martin Green

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Evelyn Ng -- 5,900
Ron Rose -- 6,050
Mel Judah -- 8,250
Peter Smythe -- 10,750
Paul Jackson -- 9,100
Paul Darden -- 7,650
Howard Lederer -- 6,650
Dewey Tomko -- 8,225
David Williams -- 6,650
Ken Powell -- 10,250
Con Cronin -- 3,900
Iwan Jones -- 10,300

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Phil Hellmuth has just rolled in, fashionably late as usual, and is now playing on the feature table.

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OK - first story courtesy of Hugh Kirton, who can only be described as a genial but sick poker junky.  I congratulated him on his unusual headwear, and dress in general.  "Yes," he replied, "I was going for the look of a gay, weak-tight player."  He's clearly thought it all through. 

"And then I went all-in first hand."

Apparently he'd arrived late, having played cash all night (eminently believable) and got to his seat as the first card was being dealt.  So, his wasn't dead, and he called an under the gun 150, along with a mid-positioner.  Flop:  .  Not bad.
UTG then makes it 300, called in the middle, and Hugh makes it 850.  Call from Matey 1, but Mid-Matey makes it 3,000.  So Mr. Kirton goes all-in, and is called by Mid-Matey with his set of Fours.
on the river, and it's 20k off the bat.  God help his table.

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Bill Gazes -- 8,600
Marc Goodwin -- 11,800
Johnny Lodden -- 4,150
Willie Tann -- 25,000

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quick question to those on the ground over there in vegas ..............thought i saw article on cardplayer saying players were not allowed to wear any 'dot.com' clothing and had to turn shirts inside -out etc or change!  ....yet on a lot of your posted photos i can clearly see site names?  wot is occuring guys ?

I saw a lot of inside-out shirts yesterday, but until there's danger of their .coms getting on TV, there are just too many players to police.  If you look at the PartyPoker logo on the tables, it's .net, and so are the web addresses on all the big banners and booths and stuff around the Arena.  If you make it on the Feature table etc. then it's black tape over your .com...

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Dave Ulliott -- 10,625
Mickey Appleman -- 10,400
AndrewT -- 10,975
Doyle Brunson -- 12,200

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Board =

Doyle bets 20k, MB calls, Doyle shows

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Phil Hellmuth is low after running J-J into Q-Q and K-K and A-A

... on the first two hands he played!