Day 1 is a Wrap
![[user38449]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
Max Reele finished the day atop the leaderboard with a whopping 263,000 in chips after winning a monstrous hand late in the day. According to Max, he earned the bulk of his chips in a hand against an unknown opponent in which he was dealt a pocket pair of kings and called his opponent's all-in semi-bluff on a Q-10-x flop; his opponent tabled J-9 at the showdown for an open-ended straight draw. Max was able to dodge his opponent's eight outs twice and took down the pot, which catapulted him past the quarter-million mark for the day.
Several big names hit the rail early on Day 1 including Gavin Smith, Jared Hamby, last year's winner Cory Carroll, and Scotty Nguyen. Some of the notables who survived the day were Ari "BodogAri" Engel, Mark Newhouse, Nenad Medic, Bill Edler, Allen Cunningham and T6 Poker's Alex Kravchenko.
We'll post tomorrow's table draw with a complete list of Day 2 players and their respective chip counts as soon as it's made available to us.
Tune in tomorrow afternoon at 12:00 p.m. PT for our continued coverage of the 2008 WSOP Circuit Event live from the Caesars Palace Poker Room in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada.
Until then, good night and good luck!