WSOP $5,000 Short-handed NLHE: Day 1 - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Pab isn't in his seat where I spotted him earlier and I've not been able to locate him since. Elsewhere I'm not sure JP has managed to get a seat yet, but the room is so huge we could easily have missed him.

The number of entrants for this event is reckoned to be close to 800.

[snoopy1239]

Piccies galore! 

Kirk Morrison, Jeff Lisandro & Daniel Alaei

[Djinn]

The short-handed nature of this event has meant that it looks like a much larger field as so very many tables are needed to start it off - the giant Amazon room is heaving, and tables are breaking as fast as they are forming.  Here are a couple of sets of tablemates:

Jennifer Harman
Phil Laak
Andreas Hagen

Joe Beevers
Jonas Molander (who just so happened to win his first tournament upon arriving in Vegas at the Bellagio, chopping with Iwan Jones for over $60k and going on to win heads up for the $25k WPT seat... nice start)

William Thorsson
Steve Zolotow
Mark Vos

And these two:

[snoopy1239]

Jamie Gold, Stephen Pearce & Steve Wong

[snoopy1239]

David Pham, Thomas Middelthon & Erik Friberg

[snoopy1239]

Mark Seif & Jason Lester

[Djinn]

Here's Dusk Til Dawn's Kevin O'Connell (there are a few DTD hats dotted around the room - also spotted DC and Mikka: will keep an eye on them).  He was just involved in a threeway pot, betting out 800 on the flop.  The button raised to 2,600 and the third player who'd initially checked folded.  This left O'Connell to resignedly pass his face up... his chips now 6,450.

[NoflopsHomer]

Jeff Kimber and Patrick Antonius

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumberrrrrrrrrrtooooooooooooooooooo

Vicky Coren has scared everyone from her table already.

Mark Goodwin and a Mini-Laak

Phil Hellmuth, late as ever. Greeted by the dealer who sounded like a teacher, when she said, "Good morning Phillip."

Age Spets' awesomely cool Greek Soldier card protector.

[Dubai]

chip count on joey lovelady please

[NoflopsHomer]

Henning Granstad was facing a chunky 4k bet on the turn of board, he passed his face up and was shown in return.

El Blondie just took a pot down, he betting the river of a board against two opponents, getting one caller and showing the to put him back over the 10k starting stack.

[snoopy1239]

Isn't that always the way, just as I pop back into the cardroom in search of hands and fascinating anecdotes, they all disperse for their 20 minute break.

However, whilst they were leaving, I did catch David Daneshgar virtually all-in on board, his miles ahead of his opponent's in-need-of-runners .

But the runners failed to arrive and the popular young American doubles up to around 10k.

[NoflopsHomer]

The HORSE final is about to start over at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25109.0

[snoopy1239]

The HORSE final is about to start over at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=25109.0

Cool, I'm off to follow the updates. Oh no, hold on...

[Chili]

No sign of Praz or Karl?

[Djinn]

No sign of Praz or Karl?

No, but we've still not scouted the full tournament, plus there were many alternates - they could have been one of those.

They were umming and ahing about playing a couple nights ago - In Karl's case I thought that actually translated to, "Yes of course, I just chopped the $1k threehanded, how can I not spend some of it on the $5k?" but they might have just slept in.