How will Joe Cada fair in his second-ever Main Event?

The respective Day 1s of the 2010 WSOP Main Event just keep getting bigger and better and Day 1C is no exception.   The Pavilion Room is buzzing, the Amazon Room is packed, and there is a long list of notable players in the field.  Here’s the scoop on some of the big to dos, including several bustouts, from the first hour of play:

Shuffle Up and Deal!

Once again, WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel greeted the Day 1C crowd and today, it was reigning WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Cada who did the honors of calling “Shuffle Up and Deal.” The young’un kept his greeting short and sweet and cards were in the air not too long after the clock struck twelve. Cada is now seated at the ESPN feature table.

This is far and away the biggest Day 1 yet, with over 100 tables running in the Pavilion Room alone and the Amazon once again filled to capacity.  Preliminary numbers suggest more than 2,000 players have filed in to play today, but we won’t have an official count until after registration closes later this afternoon.

Seven Minutes in Hell

Only seven minutes into play, and we already saw our first elimination. Phil Armstrong’s raise of 525 pre-flop found one caller in the big blind, and after a flop of 8 6 2, Armstrong opened the betting with a bet of 1025. The opposing player re-raised over the top, and Armstrong without hesitation moved in. After thinking it over for a brief moment, the player called, and tabled his A A, but was in real trouble – Armstrong had hit his set on the flop, showing 8 8. Blanks on the turn and river gave Armstrong the massive pot, and subsequently the early chip lead with 61,000.

Just ten minutes later we spotted two players who found themselves all in and at risk elsewhere in the Pavilion Room. The first player found himself with less than 400 left after his aces ran into pocket sevens on a K 8 7 8 9 board. Only two tables away there was a preflop all in confrontation with pocket aces against pocket kings. The board ran Q 6 3 3 T and the player with kings was and spent $500 a minute for his seat.

Joining these players on the rail is past Main Event winner and reigning TOC winner Huck Seed. We don’t know the details of his demise, but he dropped a big pot early on to get critically short and busted out shortly thereafter.

Meanwhile, Johnny Chan is in Heaven

Phil Armstrong wasn’t the only player to double up in the first few minutes. Poker legend Johnny Chan got into a raising war pre-flop, and when the T 8 J hit the board, poker-hell broke loose. Johnny Chan check-raised for 9,700 in chips, and the original bettor came over the top, pushing his entire stack into the pot. Chan thought about the hand for a minute, then decided to call, showing T T for middle set. His opponent, completely shocked and in disbelief, showed his 8 8 for bottom set, and neither the Q or K on the turn and river respectively were of any help. Thanks to that monstrosity of a pot, Chan is now above the 60,000 mark.

A Wondurrrrful Neighbor

Tom “durrrr” Dwan is another player currently seated in the Pavilion room, and his rail is as big as we’ve ever seen here on a Day 1 at the Main Event. Cameras are swirling to Dwan’s table after every hand, and for good reason – he’s played a ton of hands. The ultra-aggressive Dwan can see serious swings in his chip count from one minute to the next, but as of right now he’s catching the wrong side of the table, losing 6,000 in chips on a flop of A J T, and according to his Twitter page, he thinks pretty highly of the competition at his table.

Dwan and the player to his left keep finding themselves in pots together. The first hand Dwan opened for 250 and the player called. The flop came K 8 2 and Dwan bet 425 and got a call. They both checked the 6 turn and Dwan checked the T river, which his opponent bet 575 and Dwan folded.

The very next hand Dwan raised it to 250 again and got a call from the same player. The flop fell K 9 5 and Dwan check-called 375, then they both checked Q turn. Dwan fired 500 on the J river and took the pot. He is currently sitting at around 26,000 chips.

Pavilion Room notables:

Men “The Master” Nguyen
Matt Savage
Chad Brown
Alex Jacob
Sully Erna
David Bach
Steve Sung
Dennis Phillips
Tom Dwan
Patrik Antonius
Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh
Anthony Rapp
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Olivier Busquet
Dean Hamrich
Andy Seth
David “The Maven” Chicotsky
Haralabos Voulgaris
David “Devilfish” Ulliott

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