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With about 3,400 chips already in the middle and the board reading 
, action checked to Jen Shahade in the cutoff and she bet 2,000. The small blind called.
The 
fell on the river and the small blind checked. Shahade bet again, 4,000 this time, and after a few moments of thought, her opponent called and she tabled 
for quad queens to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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53,525
3,525
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3,525 |
More faces are starting to fill the Amazon Gold section including Anatoly Filatov from Russia. Filatov has been in Las Vegas for most of the summer with one cash in Event #39: Super Turbo Bounty. Filatov was coming off a tournament win at the $2,200 partypoker Million in Rozvadov at the beginning of the summer and looks to continue his success in the WSOP Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
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50,000 | |
Among the early highlights is Barny Boatman's stack which has seen a significant boost. But that was topped by some action that recently unfolded involving Iraj Parvizi.
First off was a minor pot with Fred Goff III, who finished 223rd in last year's World Series of Poker Main Event. Goff raised to 350 from the cutoff and Parvizi called in the small blind. The board of 
was checked through entirely and Goff won the pot with 
.
But right after, Goff made it 300 to go and Parvizi three-bet to 1,600 on the button. Victor Cianelli four-bet to 4,100 in the small blind and Parvizi was the only caller. On the 
flop, both players checked. Cianelli bet the turn for 7,000 and Parvizi called before Cianelli's bet of 12,000 on the 
river seemingly shut down the action.
However, Parvizi announced a raise and put in 19,000, which was then turned into a mandatory min-raise to 24,000. Cianelli quickly moved all in for more than that and Parvizi asked for a count. Cianelli's all-in was for 32,850 and, after the 24,000 were pulled in from both players, Parvizi gave it one minute of consideration and folded.
In the very next hand, Parvizi lost another 2,000 when his ended up second-best to an opponent's 
and the stack of the Brit melted to just 11,000.
As for Cianelli, he finished 78th in the 2013 WSOP Main Event for a career-best score of $ 84,786 and is set for another deep run in the most prestigious tournament of the year.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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81,000
81,000
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81,000 |
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70,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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51,000
51,000
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51,000 |
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11,000
-39,000
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-39,000 |
Further notables in the Brasilia room include Ian O'Hara, Jerry Odeen, Pierre Merlin, Dan Shak, and Jimmy Jonsson. They are all on starting stack still, while Brazil's Francisco Neto bumped up his stack early on.
Neto was involved in a big pot with his table neighbor in the cutoff and flopped Broadway on the board 
. With more than 12,000 in the middle already, both players opted to check the river, and the player in the cutoff showed . Neto had that beat with 
for the flopped straight and raked in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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55,000
55,000
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55,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Among the recently seated in Amazon Purple: four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow and seven-time bracelet winner Billy Baxter. Matusow drew a seat on the immediate left of Pratyush Buddiga.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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In one of the far corners of Brasilia sits 2007 Main Event winner Jerry Yang. Yang won $8,250,000 for winning the 38th WSOP Main Event, besting Tuan Lam heads up.
On a 
board, Yang bet 675 and his opponent to his left made it 1,500. Yang thought for a while before folding his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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48,500
48,500
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48,500 |
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One of the players seated in Amazon Purple is 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson. The Swede won $10 million for topping poker's biggest event, and he'll be looking to put together a strong Day 1 here as he did when he won this, when he bagged the chip lead on his starting day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
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50,000 |
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It's Day 1a of the Main Event and while 11 a.m. is early for most poker players, there will be plenty of familiar faces up and ready to go.
Among those is Jonathan Little and Steven van Zadelhoff. The two pros have taken their seats in Amazon Gold and look to get a head start on the 48th Annual World Series of Poker.
Little has already gotten off to a fast start this series with five cashes, including a ninth-place finish in Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $21,360. He has yet to capture his first WSOP bracelet, but has amassed over $6.5 million in earnings and will certainly keep trying.
Van Zadelhoff has booked two cashes so far and looks to add to his $1.4 million in earnings by locking up a win in Las Vegas to add a gold bracelet to his handful of wins from Prague, France, Spain, and his home country of the Netherlands.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Over on the main feature table are Richard Seymour and Anton Morgenstern while Hank Sitton is on the third feature table and Phil Laak on the secondary feature.
Other notables in the Brasilia room include Barny Boatman, Iraj Parvizi, Donnacha O'Dea, Chris George, Matthew Ashton, Emil Ekvardt, and Zorlu Er.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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52,800
52,800
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52,800 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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49,770
49,770
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49,770 |
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49,200
49,200
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49,200 |
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