World Series of Poker Main Event Finds Its Stride With Day 1B

Over two thousand more runners push the pace for a huge Main Event.

The crowd of Day 1B of the World Series of Poker Main Event almost tripled in size as 2144 runners sat down to try to play their way into November and their shot at the $10M guaranteed first place prize. The numbers are looking to top last year’s mark of 6,352 and then some, as the combined field currently sits at 2,915 and Day 1C is expected to be a monster sized crowd.

Whadya know, we’re now AHEAD of pace for @wsop Flights A/B and preparing for tomm to be our biggest Main Event start ever. #10millymaker— Ty Stewart (@wsopSUITd) July 06, 2014

Flight B of #MainEvent drew 2,144 entries. Monday’s Flight C is final day to enter. C already has more entries in it than A&B combined.— WSOP (@WSOP) July 07, 2014

Actor Ray Romano, who everybody loves, brought his of-age son to the podium, bought him into the event (mbn) and kicked off 5 levels of action with the customary “Shuffle Up And Deal!”

Ray Romano does Shuffle Up and Deal honors alongside son Matt, who’s playing his 1st #MainEvent http://t.co/ibWmGrSj2O— WSOP (@WSOP) July 06, 2014

According to PokerNews, roughly 1300 players survived the flight and plenty of notable names are among them. Eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Erik Seidel, Main Event mainstay Matt Affleck and long time GPI chart topper Marvin Rettenmaier all finished the evening with to 50 chip stacks.

PokerNews’ Caitlyn Howe talks with Matt Affleck at the end of the night.

David Williams, Brian Hastings, Phil Galfond, Jeff Madsen, Jonathan Little, Galen Hall, David Bach, Sorel Mizzi, Tim West, Jason Somerville, Faraz Jaka, Alec Torelli and Vanessa Selbst are just a sample of the top pros that finished the evening with above average (for the flight) stacks.

playing #wsop main today! am at an unfeatured secondary feature table with the always feature-worthy @VanessaSelbst http://t.co/IR2RxfJNLt— Jason Somerville (@JasonSomerville) July 07, 2014

The feature table saw a pair of legends sitting side-by-side as well as WSOP champions Huck Seed and Dan Harrington found themselves vying for the same pots.

I love poker history! 1996 @WSOP #MainEvent champ Huck Seed & 1995 champ Dan Harrington sit to each other on Day 1b. http://t.co/wMwiPJPugz— Chad Allan Holloway (@ChadAHolloway) July 06, 2014

But as roughly 800 people weren’t able to get through the night, there was bound to be some big time talent who can no longer dream of making it deep in 2014.

Brandon Cantu, Robert Mizrachi, Paul Volpe, Joe Serock, Team 888’s Sofia Lovgren, Team Ivey’s Mike Leah, Joseph Cheong, Max Silver, Team U’s Dan O’ Brien, Chris Moorman, ElkY, “Doc” Sands and Dan Shak are just a few names that can begin the post-WSOP grieving process.

Was cruising with 46k as table captain but ran KK into AA vs similar stack and busto— Joseph Cheong (@subiime) July 07, 2014

Bust before day1 dinner break. Wish I could say I bluffed it all off but I just couldn’t win a hand #TILT— Chris Moorman (@Moorman1) July 07, 2014

Busted the main event on day 1. Went looking for salvation at the bottom of a sundae. – Dan O’ Brien

Day 1C is expected to push the number of entrants close to 7K when play resumes today at 12PM PST.

Want to read more about Day 1B? Here you go:

ESPN: Day 1B Recap: Bigger field brings life to Rio

Bluff Magazine: John Luxemburger Leads Day 1B Survivors, Igor Dubinskyy Wins Little One For One Drop

CardPlayer: World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1B Draws 2,144 Players

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