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“Welcome to Groundhog Day” is the standard phrasing around media row about the rehashing of another Day 1 of the Main Event. Referencing the movie, not the American holiday. The poker world hits the reset button and another group of players enter the Amazon Room with their 30,000 in chips and dreams of bracelets. Day 1b has typically been the slowest of the starts so we can expect a little easier time looking for players, dodging a thinner rail along the way.
Yesterday saw a significant drop in the destruction rate of players. Credit it to the deeper stacks, slower structure, better play, etc but we only dropped 295 of the starting 1,116 players. That’s quite a change from the earlier events including the large buyin World Championships. We did lose the first player within the first 15 minutes of kickoff with a crack of his aces.
Quite a few members of Team Full Tilt were able to dodge the land mines and get a seat assignement for Day 2a on Tuesday, Eli Elezra has the biggest Day 1a stack amongst the FTP pros with +83,000. Other notable names making it through; actress Jennifer Tilly, actor Jason Alexander, blogger Lana “LJ” Maier, 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom “Donkey Bomber” Schneider, and poker legend Johnny “censored” Chan.
The rest of Team Full Tilt to make it through (average chip stack is 40,780):
Eli Elezra – 83,375
Vitaly Lunkin – 68,300
Mike Gracz – 59,375
Andy Black – 56,475
Amanda “Mandy B” Baker – 56,400
Michael Craig – 42,975
Erik Cajelais – 42,750
Gus Hansen – 38,075
Greg “FBT” Mueller – 35,950
Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie – 34,300
Roland De Wolfe – 31,000
Beth Shak – 25,525
Nikolay Evdakov – 22,625
Gavin Smith – 17,750
Jon “Pearljammer” Turner – 13,350
Brian Townsend – 9,125
We’ll spend Day 1b running around the smaller field tracking down our players and keeping an eye on the play.
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