Saturday, May 31, 2008

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Day 2: Pot-Limit part two, with a No-Limit twist

By Sean Lind

Today is Day 2 of the World Championship Pot-Limit event, as well as the start of the first $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event.

There was a little debate about holding a Championship event as the first event of the WSOP, but it's now a moot point, as it's Day 2 and the WSOP is already in full swing.

Event 1

A lot of action went down in Day 1 of the Pot-Limit championship event, bringing the player count down to 70. Former champion Allen Cunningham is not one of them after getting chewed out on a tough table including Patrik Antonius, Andy Black, Kathy Liebert and Joe Sebok.

Both Hollywood starlets Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth hit the rail, along with World Series of Poker Main Event champs and PokerStars pros Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker.

The Fossilman himself.

The Fossilman hit the bricks in the day's fourth level in a painful hand that saw him get all-in on a J-9-5 flop with pocket queens against pocket eights that even turned top set with a third queen. That queen also gave his opponent the gut-shot draw, however, and the river card was a dagger ten to send Raymer to the rail.

Also eliminated on the first day of play (full details available on our Live Updates page) were Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Vince Van Patten, Vanessa Rousso, David Pham, Barry Greenstein, Gavin Griffin and Kevin Saul.

Eli Elezra ended the day as the chip leader with a mountain of $302,900, well ahead of second-place Amit Makhija with $251,100. Among the top leaders are Patrik Antonius in fourth and Phil Laak in 13th. In about four hours, play will resume with the field being shaved down to a final table to play out tomorrow.

Former champ.

Event 2

This highly anticipated event is a couple hours away from beginning with the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit event. Last year the event had just under 3,000 players show up to fight for a first-place prize of $727,012.

The winner was the newly appointed PaddyPowerPoker.com ambassador Ciaran O'Leary.This year expects to see a record number of players, forcing the WSOP organisers to schedule the event for four full days of play.

Stay tuned for the next update on the progress of both tournaments. For live reporting and real-time tournament coverage, head to our Live Tournaments section.

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