WSOP MAIN EVENT: DAY 1D - At A Glance

[Djinn]

We'll be back for the final starting day of the Main Event at 12pm (8pm UK time).

[Djinn]

The final start is about to kick off with the last hundreds of players milling in the corridor awaiting the start to their World Series... actually they're sitting awaiting the ShuffleupandDeal - among them we will be following:

Danny McHugh
Enda McGarrity
Paul Foltyn
Chris Moorman
Roberto Romanello
Antony Romanello
Simon Zach
Daniel Palmer

[Djinn]

The first sweep has located, among (many) others, in addition to all prior requests:

Padraig Parkinson
Daniel Negreanu
Casey Kastle
Daniel Smits Bertelsen
Dusk Til Dawn's Fredrik Ostervold
Kevin Daly
Dario Minieri
Erik Lindgren
Sverre Sundbo
Surinder Sunar
Vivi Saethren
Torstein Iversen
Freddy Deeb
Gavin Smith
Odd Lavik
Adeeb Harb
Thomas Middelthon
Paul Testud
Thor Hansen
Samir Shakhtoor
Steve Zolotow
Philip Yeh
Christian Grundtvig
Joseph Rafferty (is this the one we know?)
David Berggren
Phil Hellmuth
Erica Schoenberg
David Benyamine
Antonio Esfandiari
Jamie Gold
Keir Fitzgibbon
Edward Moncada
Jon Kalmar

The first elimination took almost 20 minutes today - that's quite a long time by WSOP day one standards. 

Spotted sitting side-by-side (pictured) are George Danzer and Roberto Romanello - what happens when the Panzer meets the Mouth?  That's not a phrase I would have ever expected to use.

Also pictured:  Danny McHugh and Enda McGarrity
Paul 'Pab' Foltyn, who couldn't resist extending his trip to cover the old M.E, who says, "I'm not too keen on the pink wristband," immediately drawing my attention to his pink wristband, a very recent innovation, I believe, to let players in and keep spectators out in the early levels.

Final picture:  The Amazon Room, at capacity.