We missed his bustout hand ourselves, but Chad Brown took to Twitter after his recent elimination from the Seniors Championship. Despite making ten final tables at the WSOP during his career, Brown will have to wait another day for a chance to win his first gold bracelet.
We came up just as the all in hand of Scott Shorr was turned up to reveal and found out he was up against . The board ran out and Shorr got a much needed double up.
According to twitter, it looks like Shannon is doing some good work in his event as well.
According to Phil Hellmuth, he isn't the only one playing poker today. His parents are playing in the Senior's Event and his son is playing satellites. We are still trying to get a location for the Hellmuth's parents and once we get it we will let you know.
With over 4,000 seniors packing every room in the Rio here on Day 1, some of the WSOP's regular players may be a bit agitated by the longer bathroom lines and crowded halls, but at least one poker pro has expressed his appreciation for their presence here today.
Layne "Back-to-Back" Flack, who earned that nickname by winning consecutive events at the 2002 WSOP, recently took to Twitter to thank the seniors for coming out for their Main Event. Flack's sentiments ring true, as the health of the poker community has always depended not on the young millionaires making moves, but the recreational players plunking down a buy-in or three to play for fun.
Every tournament offers an endless stream of memorable quotes, with players celebrating miraculous suckouts, bemoaning their bad fate, and conversing with people they would never encounter away from the table. Susie Isaacs, who won two WSOP gold bracelets in the Women's Seven Card-Stud event (1996 & 1997), recently overheard something you might only hear at the Seniors Championship.
Despite this humorous tweet, Isaacs doesn't seem to be in the mood for smiles at the moment, as her chip stack has been halved to just over 1,500 early on the first day of play.
With Doyle Brunson electing to forgo tournament play during the 2013 World Series of Poker, things here at the Rio just haven't felt the same, but the legend known as Texas Dolly recently made it clear that he wouldn't be playing in Seniors Championship even if he was in the building.