New Flight About to Take Off
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The tables are all reset to even 30,000 stacks and the dealers are in position as the second wave of players in the £10,000 WSOPE Main Event prepare to take their seats. If you can get here within two 90-minute levels, you still have a chance in this tough, interesting field to take down a bracelet, but soon the total number of runners will be known, the prizepool calculated and displayed so that everyone knows what they're playing for. Of course roughly they already do - lots of GBP, the wrist-adornment, and the glow of pride at having beaten a field so liberally peppered with professional players it's spicy.
Gus Hansen and Jim Collopy, despite still being embroiled in the Heads-Up £10,000 final, will play today as it's their last chance, joining a multitude of local and flown-in poker talent in their first day of play.
Among them:
Barry Shulman, reigning champ in this event, back to defend his title. One of the first players to take his seat today was the last man standing last year, winning £801,603 after a hard-fought week which finally saw him see off Daniel Negreanu in 2nd place. He'll be announcing the 'Shuffle Up and Deal!' in about ten minutes.