With a new level starting, some of the late registrants can begin playing.
Eugene Katchalov and Huck Seed are seated together while Dan Shak, Sorel Mizzi and multiple bracelet winners Mickey Appleman and Mike Matusow are also battling it out.
Jimmy Fricke, Eli Elezra, Rob Mizrachi and Richard Ashby are also seated together.
Jen Harman is another player who is down early on in Day 1 here in Event #37. She just lost a couple of Limit Hold'em hands, first to David Baker and then to Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Here's the one with Baker.
Hold'em
On the board of , Baker fired a bet and Harman called to see the fall on the river. Baker bet again and this time Harman gave it up. Baker was kind enough to show her what he had, and that was the .
A couple of hands later, Harman couldn't beat ElkY's pocket nines on a board of and lost another pot.
With Robert Mizrachi and Eli Elezra both late to take a seat, and very keen gamblers, it was no surprise to see the two discuss what prop bets they could get involved in throughout the next eight hours of play.
Originally we overheard them discussing cross-books, but when we began to pay more attention to the table talk, it was discovered that they were playing two prop bet games at $100 a point.
The first involved a flopped flush with Mizrachi taking clubs and spades, and Elezra hearts and diamonds, with three of one suit on a flop costing the other three points.
The second game sees them pick three numbers (which we believed are normally consecutive, but on this occasion isn't) with Mizrachi taking 3, 6 and 7 while Elezra has 4,5 and 8. We're not exactly sure on how much they are playing for in this particular prop, but we'll keep you informed as much as we can throughout the day.
Jerry Buss limped under the gun, Allen Bari limped from the next seat, the hijack seat limped, Marco Traniello limped from the cutoff seat, Matt Lefkowitz called on the button, the small blind called and the big blind checked. With seven players in the hand, the flop came down . Action checked to Buss and he bet. Bari raised, the hijack seat folded, Traniello called, Lefkowitz folded and then the two blinds also called. Buss called as well.
Action was now five-handed to the turn card. Play checked to Buss and he bet. No one folded this time and the river brought the . Action checked around.
The small blind tabled the for two pair, nines and fives and everyone else mucked. Buss and Bari both commented that they had some low draws, but nothing that materialized.
Mike Matusow opened the pot from the cutoff with a raise to 500 and was met with a call from the small blind to see a flop fell.
Matusow fired out a continuation-bet of 250 and was check-called by his opponent as the was dealt on the turn. The small blind checked, and Matusow tossed in 500 as his opponent quickly relinquished.
As Matusow raked in the small pot, a few of the players managed to spot some marks on a few of the cards - the and - and as they were replaced, many are probably hoping that the problem that occurred in Event #8: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em doesn't occur.