The Poker Lab Rat

It has begun!

The “main event” of the WSOP - the World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold’em (Event 54) started on Thursday, as Day 1A got underway. It’s known as “1A” because there are so many potential entrants that the organisers have split the first day into FOUR seperate sections.

So Day 1a finished and Mark Garner leads the way with 194,900. Garner, who finished 25th in 2006, made a run late in the day to finish on top.

Although the organisers had allowed for up to 3,000 entrants each day only 1,297 players started playing today and by the end only 636 of those remained.

One TV personality who lasted the day was celebrities former sitcom star Ray Romano who finished up t with 61,025 in chips and was happy with his play.

Romano said “I played tight as all hell and I got a couple of hands and I made a little bit of money, but I could have made more money. I fell asleep reading Doyle Brunson’s book last night.”

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