So, another part of day 1 has been played. It's one of the least fun days to go through for the blogs, especially since there is so many not-interesting stories around them, or bustouts of any semi-famous face in the pokerworld. There's like too damn much to cover, so I guess I'll try to keep it a bit short. Unfortunately, there were less people interested in playing than yesterday, 1158 players in total (1297 yesterday), of which a bit more than half of them got through to the next lvl. The number of players bought in at that time was 5481 (so day 1A through D registered at that moment), but that number will rise a bit the next 2 days.
I guess ESPN will have an easy job finding some nutcake celeb to follow (like Ray Romano last year), or some Dimitri Nobles-like story. These are the days when they search for some story, to make some guy a hero because he acts like crazy, or is just having a good time. One of the most successful donkeys in history, Jamie Gold, fortunately won't be back in day 2. The other former main event winners playing today, we saw Greg Raymer go out fairly quickly, Robert Varkonyi did a little better and is still in with 17.7k chips. Other than that, we saw a lot of pro's, but even more donkeys and unknowns at the tables. Lots of pro's got busted (like Negreanu, Humbertooooo, Forrest, etc), and a few made it through (Seidel, Antonius, Liebert, and so on). One of the (more interesting) stories from last year, the blind Hal Lubarsky (see picture below, the guy standing behind him looks at his cards and tells him what he has and what the board is, the rest is up to Hal), is still in with a nice stack of 70.7k.
The blind Hal Lubarsky with sidekick in action
I haven't seen any LP-members on the list today, neither in one of the Main Event-topics saying they'd play 1B, so there's no news from that order. If you know any liquidpoker-member who played today, or if you're playing tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, just reply to the topic so we know who we could focus on/follow in the reports. Ben Sarnoff ended this day as chipleader, highest ranked pro is Robert Mizrachi on 3rd place.
Ben Sarnoff 177500
Brian Schaedlich 160725
Robert Mizrachi 142400
Nicholas Caltabiano 127700
Liya Gerasimova 111050
Rob Eckstut 110275
Alex Balandin 109925
Coco Valerice 106727
Michael Watson 104425
Gilles Smadja 101450
By: Pindarots
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