Seniors Celebrate Making the Break
As the Seniors Championship entered its first twenty-minute break of the day, many players were marking the milestone with phone calls home to family and friends.
While PokerNews provided instant internet updates on the day's proceedings, the halls and aisles of the Pavilion Room were filled with the sounds of seniors calling home to update their supporters the old fashioned way: with a leisurely recount of the day's action.
One player was heard excitedly telling his wife about the minor miracle of his pocket kings holding up not once, but twice against the ace-king of an opponent. Another was just glad to have made the break at all, telling his own wife over the phone that he had "made it farther than last year by a long shot." One thing is for sure, for many of the seniors competing in their own version of the WSOP Main Event, surviving two levels of play is certainly something to celebrate.