Poker Digest

Day 1c of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker is complete. 2,314 players entered the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship event, which was an increase from Monday’s and Tuesday’s day 1 flights. So far a total of 4,928 players have signed up for this year’s main event, and at least 1,567 players will need to show up for day 1d, the last flight, in order for the 2010 main event to surpass the size of the 2009 main event.

The third first day of competition was a good day for some former main event winners. Johnny Chan is among the chip leaders after his day 1 with about 150,000 chips. Chan was fortunate enough to have his set over set hold up early in the day to increase his stack size to about 60,000. From there he was able to gather more chips and put together an impressive first day of competition.

The 2004 main event runner up, David Williams, also had a nice first day as he sits at about the same stack size of 150,000. Last year’s winner, Joe Cada, survived day 1 of the 2010 main event, and doubled his chip count heading into day 2. Some other notable poker pros that are near the top of the chip counts include Sam Farha, Michael Mizrachi, Michael DeMichele, Patrik Antonious, and Hoyt Corkins.

While day 1c was kind to some players, it was not accommodating to some of the best pro poker and online poker players in the world. Some notable eliminations from yesterday include Phil Hellmuth, Men Nguyen, Dario Minieri, Isabella Mercier, and Jeff Madsen.