WSOP 2005 - Day 2
And I thought it was crowded yesterday. You should try walking through the Rio when the main event is on break, as I just did. It’s like swimming against the current. The $10,000 buy in grandaddy of all World Series of Poker events began at 11 a.m. today, with about 5,500 people participating. There’s certainly electricity in the air that wasn’t here before.
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From Dr. Pauly at Tao of Poker:
Here are some notable bust outs from Day 1B: Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Tobey Maguire, Oliver Hudson, Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Erin Ness, Robert Varkonyi, Erick Lindgren, Melissa Hayden, Men the Master, Evelyn Ng, Greg Mueller, Perry Friedman, Max Pescatori, Barny Boatman, Senthil Kumar, David Williams, Johnny World Hennigan, Eli Elerza, Dewey Tomko, Mimi Rogers, Allen Cunningham, Phil Gordon, Cyndy Violette, Hasan Habib, David Levi, Miami John, and Juha Helppi.
Here are some notable bust outs from Day 1A: Steve Z, Ted Lawson, Josh Arieh, Erik Seidel, Chris Bigler, Scott Fischman, Jesus, Ted Forrest, Johnny “Fuckin” Chan, David Grey, Mike Sexton, Marco Traniello, Humerto Brenes, Devilfish, Davood Mehrmand, Brad Garret, Barry Greenstein, Eskimo, Martin De Knijff, My Main Man Freddy Deeb, The Unabomber, Carlos Mortenson, Wil Wheaton, Patty Gallagher, Jennifer Tilly, Brett Jungblut, Thunder Keller, and Jen Harman.
Survivors! Here are some notable players who survived Day 1A or Day 1B: Layne Flack, Randy Holland, Liz Lieu, Paul Darden, Clonie Gowen, Daniel Heimiller, Andrew Black, Greg “Fossilman” Raymer, John Duthie, Steven (Lucky) Liu, Tomer Benvenisti, Pascal J Perrault, Matt Dean, David Plastik, Harley Hall, Toto Leonidas, John Gale, Tony Cousineau, Gus Hansen, Jeff Shulman, Young Phan, Amir Vahedi,Pat Poels, Dutch Boyd, Paul McKinney, Joe Beevers, Paul Wolfe, Chip Reese, Cecilia Mortensen, Dan Harrington, The Grinder, Paul Phillips, Rafe Furst, Mimi Tran, and Chris Moneymaker.
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