The 2007 World Series of Poker Main Happening Day 1B had 1,545 players enter this round of the tournament. Officials said they have approximately 1,600 that have pre-registered for Day 1C. Hence additional than likely the numbers for this year’s Main Happening will not move toward lock to the 8,773 sum players in 2006. The dip in the numbers is highly related to the fact that Harrah’s did not let online poker rooms as well as online casinos to throw their players to the Main Happening or any additional happening in this years WSOP. In the past few years, online poker rooms as well as casinos have sent hundreds of winners of satellites tournament they have given to the Main Event.

But it does not look as if to have dampened the overall quality of people in the Amazon room. Seen at the tables were talk-show host Montel Williams, Hollywood personality Norm MacDonald, 1983 Main Happening Champion Tom McEvoy, 1986 Main Happening Champion Berry Johnston, 1995 Main Happening Champion Dan Harrington, 1998 Main Happening Champion Scotty Nguyen, director as well as writer Nick Cassavetes, Howard Lederer, Scott Fischman, Annie Duke, J.J. Liu, Sam Farha, Captain Tom Franklin, David Williams as well as his mother Shirley Williams. As well as of way ESPN cameras were everywhere to be seen. Winning trying to acquire into the Amazon room, 2006 Main Happening winner Jamie Gold did not have his seat card as well as was stopped by security. Behind a little talk, Jamie had to tip to the huge poster of him as last years champion for a little form of identification. Eventually, he was allowed inside by safety to acquire a new seat card.

There were a lot of surprising hands as well as bad beats that took place in the Amazon room. For example, on one distribute European player Simon ‘Aces’ Trumper got the majority of his chips to the center as well as ended up through a filled house by the river. Unfortunately, his opponent had 4 Jacks to win the hand. Shirley Williams won a big pot behind her pocket 10’s turned into quad 10’s, crushing the additional player’s pocket K’s. A really bad hit happened at a dissimilar table as three players saw a flop of 7h 5h 3h. Two players went all-in through the third player calling it. Behind the revolve as well as river cards were dealt, one player had a king high flush, the after that player had an Ace high flush, excluding the last player had 6h 4h for a straight flush busting one player along through crippling a second to rake in a $64,000 pot. An extra initial at the WSOP was the entry of Jason Holbrook who was allowed to occupy yourself legally blind through the assist of an aide at his side. Yet though he was eliminated, his determination to return after that year to occupy yourself in arrange to win the bracelet was inspiring. It was also understandable by the expressions on everyone’s faces that he had earned their reverence earlier than leaving the table.

At 4:00 a.m. occupy yourself for Day 1B was completed. A little of the 589 names that will walk on to the after that round are Scotty Nguyen through 135,000 chips, David “The Dragon” Pham 130,000, Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy 124,000, Berry Johnston 113,000, James Van Alstyne 88,400, Kido Pham 85,000, WSOP bracelet holder Mark Seif 70,000, Robert Mizrachi 70,000, Tom McEvoy 65,000, Matt Matros 57,000, John Hennigan 56,000, Shirley Williams 45,000, Joe Hachem 45,000 as well as Montel Williams 15,000. Montel played relatively fine at the moment as well as at one tip was the chip leader for Day 1B.

Tom Howze is a webmaster of an Virtual site that relates to the 2007 World Series of Poker events, updates as well as outcome information as well as 2007 WSOP Reports on the tournament events themselves.