2007 World Series of Poker

Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem
Day: 1a
Event Info

2007 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
$8,250,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$59,784,954
Entries
6,358
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
100,000

Commentators, Friends, and Competitors

In the room today are Vince Van Patten and Mike Sexton, two of poker's premiere commentators and hosts of the World Poker Tour, which is now in its sixth season.

Vince and Mike are genuinely close friends, but today they get to play in poker's greatest event and are having fun doing it.

Van Patten's stack currently sits at 22,000 while Sexton's is up to 27,000.

Tags: Mike SextonVince Van Patten

Ahh!!! These Giant Nuts Will Enslave Us All!!

Whoops, no need to panic, it's not an alien invasion of eight-foot tall legumes. Planters is one of the official sponsors of the World Series of Poker and Mr. Peanut has just made an appearance. He's walking around the Amazon Room, shaking hands and posing for pictures.

Some Notables Starting on Day 1A

Here are a few of the players that have started today: C.K. Hua, Beth Shak, Marco Traniello, Jim Feist (sports handicapper), Josh Arieh, Andrew Black, Vince Van Patten, Lars Bonding, Richard "Quiet Lion" Brodie, Shane Schleger, Tony Ma, Arnold Spee, Keith Sexton, Greg "FBT" Mueller, Debbie Burkhead, Ram Vaswani, Mark Vos, and An "The Boss" Tran. Also, hockey player Max Talbot, from Pittsburgh, PA, has joined the field today.

Debbie Burkhead Runs Into A Straight Flush

Debbie Burkhead
Debbie Burkhead
Debbie Burkhead, a well-known Las Vegas rounder and columnist for Poker Player Newspaper, was enjoying a great start to her day, cruising along and winning some small pots, that is until she ran a queen-high flush into a straight flush, losing a 4,000 pot.

Burkhead was down to 17,000 after the hand.

Tags: Debbie Burkhead

Small Pot For Maguire

Tobey Maguire was heads up on the flop against an under the gun player.

Flop: {6-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{4-Spades}

Maguire made it 500 to go and his opponent called. They both checked the {10-Spades} on the turn, but his opponent bet out 300 when the {A-Spades} fell on the river. Maguire made the call and won the hand after showing {J-Diamonds}{J-Spades} for the flush. His opponent flashed the {7-Spades} before mucking.

Tags: Tobey Maguire

Huck Seed Chips Up

Seed check-called a 1,100 bet after the {5-Clubs}{7-Spades}{9-Spades} flop and a 3,000 bet after the {Q-Hearts} turned, but when the {8-Hearts} fell on the river Seed fired out an 8K bet and his opponent folded. Seed is now up to 22,000.

Tags: Huck Seed

Everybody Loves Raymond

Ray Romano
Ray Romano
Actor Ray Romano is among the celebrities playing in today's event. His table was broken and before the remaining players left, they asked Romano to autograph their hats.

ESPN camers followed behind Romano as he walked across the room to his new table. He happened to come across Brad Garrett's table, who was a fellow cast member on "Everbody Loves Raymond."

"Brad what are you doing wearing your hat on backwards?" said Romano. "Have you been watching too much poker on TV?"

"Go away, Ray!" joked Garrett. "You bring me bad luck."

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