09 Jul 10

WSOP 2010 is Officially Second Biggest Main Event Ever

With 7,319 players signing up after the four starting days, this year's WSOP Main Event is second only to the one in 2006. PokerStrategists BongBob, fabstinho, MikaPaasonen and vipa were among the 2,391 who played on Day 1D.

BongBobThe World Series of Poker proved today that the game of poker is well and truly alive, after the showcase event of the series attracted the most players since 2006. Despite the $10,000 price tag on each entry ticket, 7,319 dreamers still parted with their hard earn dollars to take a shot at fame and fortune.

After the four opening days, around 5,000 players are still in the running for a piece of the $68.8 million prize pool. The top 747 finishers will make the money, while only one winner will walk away with $8,944,138 first place prize, the second biggest in Main Event history.

Team PokerStrategy.com member AdminBongBob played on Day 1D and was joined by several PokerStrategists, as well as our tournament video producer JonathanLittle. This is how they stand at the end of the day:


Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch were just some of the famous players that took part today. Meanwhile, double WSOP bracelet winner for 2010, Frank Kassela, has pretty much locked up the Player of the Year title after John Juanda was eliminated.

To find out more about what happened during 1D, you can visit our live ticker:

Go to the WSOP 2010 Main Event Live Ticker

Check out the latest pictures from the WSOP by clicking the link below:

View all WSOP 2010 pictures in our gallery [ME Day 1D added]

vipa and fabstinho: No pain, no gain

vipavipa (pictured left) and fabstinho each put their Main Event tournament lives on the line today, after putting all their chips in the middle in the final two hours of the day. Fortunately for both of them, they ended up raking in chips after their all in plays.

In vipa's case, he almost tripled up after the hand. He managed to get all his chips into the middle on the flop of 9d5s8h against two opponents. vipa had a set of nines, one opponent had a pair of aces while the player who first went all in only had Jd8d.

Meanwhile, fabstinho was also sweating for his tournament life. He went all in preflop after a bet and a call in early position, and it was AhKc against Jc9c. fabstinho only had around 25 big blinds then, and the board ran out 4dJdQs 2s Ts to take him back up to over 20,000 chips.

After the four opening days, over 30 PokerStrategists have made into the second day and will resume play on Friday and Saturday. AdminRobbieV and AdminScHnibL0r plays on Day 2A while his fellow Team PokerStrategy.com members AdminAllanon and AdminBongBob are in Day 2B.