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. The EP player led out for 1,500 and Chan called. Both players checked the 
on the turn. The river was the 
and the EP player bet 2,500. Chan made the call. Chan mucked at the sight of his opponent's
and is down to 13,900.
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
. The EP player led out for 1,500 and Chan called. Both players checked the on the turn. The river was the and the EP player bet 2,500. Chan made the call. Chan mucked at the sight of his opponent's
and is down to 13,900.
The flop came
and the player in middle position bet out 3,000. Hershiser raised to 10,000 and his opponent moved all in.Hershiser was forced to fold his hand and is now down to 16,000.
They were delighted to see Friedman increase his count to 26,000 in a hand in which he check-called 2,000 on a flop of
. When the turn came 
Friedman and his opponent both checked. That induced Friedman to bet 3,000 on the 
river. He was called and showed down the winner, 
.A few hands later Friedman busted a player. Playing
, Friedman flopped 
against his opponents pocket aces.
.Everyone checked the board, and checked around again when the turn brought the
. The river brought the and a bet of 600 from the small blind. The big blind checked and Smith made the call. He mucked when the small blind turned over 
. After the hand he was left with 19,000.
By comparison, 1,297 players entered the Main Event on Day 1a in 2008, 1,287 played Day 1a in 2007 and 2,138 played Day 1a in 2006.
.Both players checked and the turn brought the
along with a 2,700 bet from under-the-gun. Yang raised an additional 3,600 and got the call. Action checked to Yang when the hit the river and he bet 4,000. He got called again before turning over for trips. His opponent mucked, and Yang now has 43,000 chips.
.The big blind took the lead, betting 1,400 when the
landed on the turn, and Johnston called. The 
on the river brought a bet of 2,500 from the big blind and another call.The big blind showed
and Johnston tabled to take the pot. His stack now stands at just over 30,000.
The reasoning? Nelly was in the action after he called an opponent's all in to be up against
with his 
.The flop fell down
to keep Nelly in the lead, but when the 
landed on the turn, it gave his opponent additional outs for a straight.When the river peeled the
, hands were shook, Nelly raked the pot and the TV crews added another highlight to the reel as Nelly pushed up to over 16,000.