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It seems that the folks in the orange section just can't wait to get their chips in. Just a few minutes after Corey Emery doubled up, we heard another, "All in and call!" from the floor.
The flop read 
when we arrived; around 27,000 in chips had found its way into the pot preflop and the rest of the chip went in on the flop.
Alex Aram: 
Hapless opponent: 
Turn: 
River: 
Aram doubled to almost 60,000 while the unhappy man with kings dropped to just 1,000 or so.
We caught up with this hand on the turn, with the board showing 
.
Shannon Elizabeth led with a bet of 1,000 from the big blind, and her opponent, sitting to her left, raised to 3,000. Elizabeth reraised to 5,000, and her opponent promptly pushed all in.
Elizabeth thought a moment, then folded. Her opponent showed 
for Broadway as he dragged the pot.
Elizabeth has 24,500.
In middle position, Nicolas Levi opened the pot with a 250-chip raise. The action folded to the player on the button who called.
The flop came out 
and Levi fired a 400-chip bet. The player on the button popped it to 1,200 and Levi called.
The turn card was a 
and Levi fired a 2,100-chip bet. Once more, his opponent popped it, now to 9,000.
Levi quickly folded and slipped to 27,000 chips.
Audley Harrison, who is a British professional heavywieght boxer from Northolt, is in the field today. Harrison seems to be adding poker to his already stacked résumé which includes becoming the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division, which he did at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. On top of that, Harrison became the European heavyweight champion after knocking out Michael Sprott in April 2010.
Will he be able to fight his way through the massive field and add a WSOP World Championship to his long list of accomplishments? We'll have to wait and see.
If you're wandering around the Amazon or Pavilion Rooms, you'll probably see players wearing a green patch that says something about putting a "Bad Beat on Cancer."
Well those patches were initiated by Phil Gordon who is a member of the Board of Directors for the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. Gordon has set up a donations program in conjunction with the World Series of Poker, where any player can instantly donate 1% (or more) of their winnings upon receiving them at the cage. All donations benefit the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.
Gordon's bad beat attempt has started a little slow today however.
A player raised to 350 from middle position and Gordon called with the button.
The flop fell 
and Gordon's opponent check-called a 600-chip bet. Both players checked the on the turn, but after the 
rivered, Gordon's opponent led for 1,000.
Gordon called, but mucked when his opponent opened 
for a pair of aces.
Gordon's stack slipped to 27,800.
It would appear as though the players in the orange section had RedBull on their Cornflakes this morning, as danafish responds to our second "All-in and a call" of the day.
As she left, Paul Jackson approached from the feature table and reported with a raised eyebrow: "This guy just check-called 15,000 on the river with king high. Other guy had a full house."
Early signs suggest that players are trying to become the 2010 WSOP Champion on Day 1d.
We're spotting a few more familiar faces as we make our first rounds here in the Pavilion Room, among them David Chiu, David Saab, Bill Edler, Paul Parker, and David Tuchman.
Justin "Boosted J" Smith is here, too. As are Steve "MrSmokey1" Billirakis, Prahlad "Spirit Rock" Friedman, and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.
Over in this corner of the Pavilion we noticed that Joe Hachem and Steve Dannenmann are siting at adjacent tables.
In case you don't recall, Dannenmann finished runner-up to Hachem in the 2005 Main Event. While it's unlikely that they will find themselves at the same table anytime today, it is interesting to see the two playing so close together.
On a board reading 
and the pot sitting at around 22,000, Shawn Keller moved all in for his last 19,575 and was immediately snapped off by his opponent.
Keller tabled his strong, but still vulnerable 
, only to be relieved when his opponent slammed down his .
The table looked quite bemused as Keller raked in the pot to move to 61,000 and change.
Within just a few minutes we heard the rather unexpected cry of: "All-in and a call!" and like a jet-propelled whippet we raced over to the crime scene to check out the action.
The man with the chalk outline had gone out with 
, all the chips going in on a 
with Corey Emery holding for top set. Although Emery commanded the dealer to "pair the board" before each subsequent street, it was unnecessary as the 
turn and 
river were both blanks, and we had our first exit of the day.
But as he collected his wooden spoon, the fallen player was reflective in defeat, commenting with a smile: "Did you see how he sucked out with those kings?"
Meanwhile, Emery is your new chip leader with 60,000 and wearing a smile that would require a crowbar and a tub of Vaseline to remove. "He had top set, but fancy sweating that ****," commented our field reporter, which made me laugh.
