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Over the 10 days in which the tournament was played, players from all over the globe, both men and women, sat down at the tables. Some players work at keeping a good image, others need all the help they can get. Phil was pretty shaken, but walked away from the crash. Seated in today's field were a number of the game's top professionals such as WPT announcer Mike Sexton, Amarillo Slim, Bobby "The Owl" Baldwin 1978 Main Event champion, Haralabos Voulgaris, Mark Vos, Ram Vaswani, David "The Devilfish" Ulliott, Dewey Tomko, Arnold Spee, John Spadavecchia, Doyle Brunson holder of 10 WSOP bracelets, Jose Rosenkrantz, Liz Lieu, Mel Judah, World Poker Tour champion Alan Goehring, Michael Mizrachi and Marcel Luske. Planters is a sponsor of the World Series of Poker and Mr. The first day ended 14 hours later with only 14 players gone. Every event this year has something that has made it special and unique. This huge number of players resulted in the creation of a prize pool that reached a mind numbing $82,512,162 in size. Phil now holds the record for the most WSOP gold bracelets (11 of them) and number of cashes (63 in total so far at time of this writing) than any player on the face of the earth. The only one close to him was Daryn Firicano having $450,000 and Juha Helppi with $436,000 in chips. Brad stated that the money will be donated to an agreed upon charity. Beginning tomorrow, combination of these fields will start with Day 2A hosting players from Day 1A and 1B for another round of elimination through 6 levels of long and psychologically draining, emotionally devastating play. The prize pool size, total number of entrants and payout schedule can't be accurately calculated until all phases of Day 1 are complete. The 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1A held at the RIO casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 6th, marked the beginning of what has become known as the largest poker tournament on earth. Harrah's who owns the World Series of Poker (WSOP) decided to add another three days to the schedule on June 30th making it even bigger. In order to handle such a large turnout, the field of players was split up into 4 groups of 2,000 players with additional alternates for each day. He spent $48,000 in rebuys total which is believed to be the most of any major poker tournament in history. 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1D had a lot taking place today. And six hands after eliminating Michael Binger, Jamie Gold won the heads up with Paul Wasicka and became the champion of the tournament. When the heads up came between WPT champion Juha Helppi and 9 time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, Phil had $850,000 in chips to Juha's $1,650,000. Playing in the Main Event is not as easy as what the world sees on ESPN and the World Poker Tour. Officials are saying that the last round tomorrow Day 1D should have the greatest number of players which may be 1800 plus. At the final table Jamie Gold continued his overall dominance of the action by taking out Dan Nassif, Erik Friberg, Richard Lee, Rhett Butler, Michael Binger and pro player Allen Cunningham. And during a hand with Mark Seif, Vanessa Rousso and another player, Vanessa offered Mark $1,000 to go all in so she could double up. Each round of Day 1 grew with more and more players showing up.
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