There was about 1,800 in the pot preflop between Barry Greenstein and his opponent in Seat 1. The flop came down 
and Seat 1 led out for a bet of 1,000. Greenstein wasted little time in raising it to 2,000.
Seat 1 thought for a moment, grabbed his entire stack of 8,600 more and slammed it in the middle. Greenstein quickly flicked his cards into the muck and seemed content to preserve his stack of about 39,000.
Norman Chad is making the rounds, as he normally does here at the Main Event. Just now he stopped by a table where a player had asked him to sign the bill of his WSOP baseball cap.
As he signed someone the conversation turned to Chad's spouse. "You mean your future ex-wife?" another player cracked. "My current wife," Chad corrected. "I don't say that anymore, because every time I did before, it came true."
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Joe Hachem was in middle position when he bet 5,725 into a board reading 
. His opponent went all in for a total of 16,100 and Hachem went into the tank.
After thinking for a while, Hachem said, "I'm not Hollywooding, boys. Either you got a full house or you're bluffing."
Eventually, Hachem said he "couldn't fold" and made the call. Much to his dismay his opponent tabled 
. Hachem mucked and after doubling up his opponent, he is down to 9,000.
The entire sports world is focusing on LeBron James today with his decision coming up shortly on where he'll be headed to next year. One of the tables, Table 299, has a little pool going on the subject. Al Riccobono brought up the idea and seven people put up $5 each for a winner-take-all bet, which may be chopped as some people share the same team. Here's who picked who.
Al Riccobono - Miami Heat
Steve Moore - Chicago Bulls
Mike Liscio - Miami Heat
Brad Miller - New Jersey Nets
James Boyle - New Jersey Nets
Alec Vanderlem - Chicago Bulls
Jeff the Dealer - Cleveland Cavaliers
Surely it'll be on the televisions around the area when it airs shortly and many of the players will be more honed in on that than anything else.
The pot contained around 2,000 in chips and the flop read 
when the gentleman in the big blind bet out 1,000. Lyle Berman under the gun made the call.
They saw a turn and this time the big blind checked. Berman bet 2,000, and his opponent flat-called.
The river was the 
and the big blind checked again. This time the bet from Berman was a hefty 10,000. His opponent flatted again and turned over 
for a flopped set. Berman showed 
for a higher set on the turn, and took the sizeable pot.
Berman moved up to the lofty environs of 87,000.
There was a commotion in the far corner of the Red Section, and we arrived the board looked like this: 
. Thomas Muehloecker had 
laying in front of him, and he was stacking up a wave up chips.
Muehloecker eliminated a player after turning a straight flush, and now sits with over 50,000 chips.
Today, three members of the Brunson family started the Main Event and only two remain. While Pam Brunson has been eliminated, both Doyle and Todd are still alive.
We haven't heard much from Todd all day long as he has been playing patiently over in the Pavilion Room. In a recent pot of 3,800, the board read 
and Brunson bet out 2,000. His opponent in Seat 8 folded and he took down the pot, bringing him up to around 31,500.
Who will be the last Brunson standing? Father or son?
The numbers are in and it's a big one. A total number of 7,319 ponied up the $10,000 buy-in for the year's World Series of Poker Main Event. That puts the total prizepool at a whopping $68,798,600. This year's Main Event is the second largest ever, making it the second largest live tournament in history behind only the 2006 Main Event. To read some more interesting facts and figures about the field, head here.
It breaks down as follows for the past two years.
| 2009 | 2010 | |
| Day 1a: | 1,116 | 1,125 |
| Day 1b: | 873 | 1,489 |
| Day 1c: | 1,696 | 2,314 |
| Day 1d: | 2,809 | 2,391 |
| Total: | 6,494 | 7,319 |
Comparing that to last year, Day 1a only had 1,116 players, Day 1b had 873 players, Day 1c had 1,696 players and Day 1d had 2,809 players for a total of 6,494.
Looking at this year's numbers compared with last year's, the field increased by 12.7%. Last year's Day 1d trumped this year's, but the other three days were all larger this year. There was also a steady increase from Day 1a to Day 1d this year.
Last year's first-place prize was worth $8,546,435 to youngster Joe Cada and this year will be even more -- $8,944,138, in fact. In all, 747 players will be paid out. Once we receive all the official payouts and prizepool information, we'll send them your way.
David Saab got the rest of his stack in on a 
flop with 
against an opponent's .
The turn card gave his opponent some extra outs, but the 
river card notched the victory for Saab with a six-high straight.
Saab is up to about 46,000.
Paul Jackson raised from early to mid position to 800, Vanessa Rousso reraised to 2,200 from the cut-off and Jackson made the call.
Flop: 
Jackson led for 2,500, Rousso raised to 7,500 and Jackson called.
Turn:
Check, check.
River:
Jackson bet 10,000 and Rousso made the call.
Jackson showed ; Rousso claimed to have had 
.
Jackson - 50,000
Rousso - 18,000
