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| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Nível: 3
Limites: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
The first break of the day has just started. Play will resume in 15 minutes.
Today is a special day. Not only will the Big One for One Drop crown a champion but we've also get to see hole card camera inventor and Poker Hall of Fame member Henry Orenstein in action.
Orenstein is 90 years old and won the Stud Championship back in 1996, and for the first time in many years he's playing a WSOP event. At the start of the tournament Orenstein gave a did the 'shuffle up and deal' and we spoke to Nolan Dalla about the significance of this man.
"You gotta follow me, I'm going to win this thing," Joel Tushnet just told us.
It's quite a bold statement to announce a victory in the first level of the day, to which Tushnet reassured us.
"I'm serious, I'm going to win," Tushnet added, confident of his abilities.
Up until today, Tushnet has three cashes at the 2014 WSOP, including an 18th place finish in the $1,500 tournament last weekend. Tushnet has $583,296 in live tournament earnings and by the end of Event #61, he may have himself a WSOP gold bracelet as well.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
33,000 | 33,000 |
As if the tournament didn't have enough huge names playing, we just spotted Eric Drache and Mori Eskandani as well.
Eskandani is the producer of many poker television shows such as High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark and the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. Today, Eskandani's company POKER PROductions films the Big One for One Drop final table and the big boss himself decided to play in this event.
Drache, who lost heads up for the bracelet in this tournament to Freddie Ellis back in 2009, was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame back in 2012. Drache was one of the creators of the Hall and the WSOP tournament director from 1973 until 1988. Drache has also been credited with inventing satellite tournaments and running the poker rooms at the Mirage and Golden Nugget.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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|
30,000 | 30,000 |
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30,000 | 30,000 |
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
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46,000 | 16,000 |
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43,000 | 13,000 |
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42,000 | 12,000 |
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38,000 | 8,000 |
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32,000 | 2,000 |
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31,000 | 1,000 |
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29,500 | -500 |
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29,500 | -500 |
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29,000 | -1,000 |
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29,000 | -1,000 |
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28,000 | |
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23,000 | -7,000 |
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21,000 | -9,000 |
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12,400 | -17,600 |
Nível: 2
Limites: 400/800
Ante: 100
While John Monnette has not shown up yet for this event, and chances are he will, his running ability are being discussed over on one of the tables.
The table with Shaun Deeb, David Chiu, Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed and David Singer was caught talking about prop bets and we listened closely.
"Every time I hear someone talk about a prop bet it's about you winning," Singer told Seed.
"That's not true, I've lost some silly ones," Seed replied.
Deeb took over the conversation and recalled a prop bet both he and Seed made against Monnette.
"We bet him that we could run a mile faster than he could," Deeb said, before Seed explained that he and Deeb would form a relay team versus Monnette on his own.
"He crushed us," Deeb laughed, as the duo lost by a large margin. "I think he lapped me and he ran a sub six minute mile."
While the early betting in this event is not yet of any major significance, the table talk is most certainly entertaining.
We're currently up to 48 players, while many candidates expected to enter this tournament are still in the $3,000 Omaha Hi-Low event. That event is currently on Day 2 and as more players get knocked out, we expect to see this field increase.
