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WSOPE 2011 Main Event Days 1a and 1b

WSOPE 2011 Main Even, €10,400 No Limit Texas Holdem, Day 1a

310 players came to the tables for Day 1a of the Main Event in the WSOPE 2011, proving that controversial move from London to Cannes this year was a good decision. Last year the total field of the event consisted of 346 players that means that this year the first day nearly made the total number of participants in 2010. With more players to enter on Day 1b this year is expected to break all the attendance records. The previous record was set in 2007 and 2008 with 362 players.

165 players made it through the first day and Jamie Rosen with 162,700 chips is in the lead.

Dermot Blain finished with 123,500 chips, Chris Moorman with 121,775 followed by Polito Laurent with 120,200 chips. Erik, Seide, Matt Waxman, Sam Holden, Johnny Chan and Tristan Wade all made in the Day 2. Moorman saw a nice increase in his chip count when he busted out Jason Mercier, two time WSOP winner. In that hand Moorman’s Ac, Ks played against Mercier’s JJs, 10s and with the board of Kh, Jd, 4h, 5s, Qd Mercier was sent to the rail.

Phil Hellmuth, 11 times bracelet holder and WSOP Main Event winner in 1989, became another well-known victim of the day. Hellmuth went down to just 1,600 chips and with the blinds of 250/500, he raised to 1,100 holding Kh, 9s Michael Telker reraised to 2,800 and put Hellmuth all in. Telker opened Ac, 9c and with the board of completely missing both players Hellmuth was eliminated.

Other famous players who busted out on the day were Tom Dwan, Sam Stein, Joseph Cheong, Anton Makiievskiy, Justin Bonomo and Tyler Bonkowski.

WSOPE 2011 Main Even, €10,400 No Limit Texas Holdem, Day 1b

283 players came to Hotel Majestic Barriere for Day 1b of the WSOPE 2011 Main Event, making the grand total number of players in this event 593, this dwarfs all previous WSOPE records in history.

Lari Sihvo, from Finland, finished in the lead with 144,725 chips. Tommy Vedes was second with 142,775  chips and Alex Kostritsyn is third with 126,200 chips.

Plenty of well-known players were in the room and the start of the action. Table 12 consisted of players like Bertrand Grospellier, Benny Spindler, Jonathan Duhamel, Graeme Putt and James Akenhead.

Michael Mizrachi, who won his second WSOP title a day earlier in the Event 5, was not that lucky again and busted out  during the early levels, leaving his brother Robert Mizrachi, who also has WSOP bracelet in his collection, to fly the family flag. Robert was sitting at another tough table with Sorel Mizzi, Dominik Nitsche and Bryan Devonshire.

Dan Kelly, Bertrand Grospellier, Viktor Blom, Steve Billirakis, Sam Tricket and Marvib Rettenmaier were all eliminated during the early rounds.

Bruno Benveniste took the chip lead just before the dinner break. Benveniste had a successful run in the WSOPE this year and cashed in Event 1, he went on and busted out James Mitchell, Filippo Candio, McLean Karr, Tommy Vedes and Robert Mizrachi. Daniel Megreanu, Andrew Feldman, John Tabatabai, Jonathan Duhamel, Sorel Mizzi and November Noner Matt Giannetti all were elimitated and joined the rail by the end of the day.

Day 2 will commence on Monday the 17^th of October at 12:00 CET when the combined field of 328 survivers from both days will rejoin the table to fight for the bracelet and the top prize.