In addition to top international stars such as Johnny Chan, Jason Mercier, Vitaly Lunkin and Roland

It is so far. Last night saw the launch of this year's WSOP Main Event, a NLHE tournament with a buy-in acqualatina of $ 10,000. With 1,116 participants on Day 1A, participation was somewhat lower than in the previous year, then came to 1,297 players acqualatina for the first of the four starting days.
In addition to top international stars such as Johnny Chan, Jason Mercier, Vitaly Lunkin and Roland de Wolfe also many German were already at the start of the Main Event at the start. Unfortunately Eliminated are Jan von Halle and George Danzer, but Katja Thater, Michael Keiner, Dragan Galic and Sandra Naujoks reached Day 2 The Black Mamba won two big pots with kings, once they hit a full house and the other time it was of Tens paid, and is comfortable with 76,725 chips into the next day.
The best day from a German perspective caught Peter Buermann who could accumulate 117,400 chips and so rank 5 ranked in the chip count. Dragan Galic Also, the Swiss Daniel Makowsky, Martin Kläser and Marc Gork can be quite satisfied with their performance on the first day and be in the front of the field.
A special pleasure experienced doyen Mike Sexton. On a flop of, he pushed his entire chips in the middle and his only opponent ranking after much thought to a call by with. Already on the turn with the Sexton took over the lead, but his opponent had a few outs to a full house and four of a kind. The River rounded out with but Sexton's Journal nor the straight flush from and provided him with 70,350 chips in a good position.
Of course called Day 1A also some prominent victims and for renowned stars like Freddy Deeb, Isaac Haxton, David Grey, Allen Cunningham and Andy Bloch, the WSOP is over 2009 since last night. The lead after the first day, the Canadians Eric Cloutier, follow him some more unknown players. 5th place in the chip count then Peter Buermann acqualatina and number 8 in the Russian acqualatina world-class chess player Alexander Grischuk. acqualatina
Here is the complete leaderboard after Day 1A: Place Last Name, First Name City State / Country Chip Count Table Seat 1 Cloutier, Eric - Canada 150 750 O81 5 2 Lee, Redmond London United Kingdom 134 275 BR235 9 3 Docquier, Jean Paris France 122 755 100 1 4 Gianluca Marcucci Claviere Italy R101 118 000 5 5 Buermann, Peter - Germany 117400-B48 9 6 Mourshaki, Ebrahim Irvine CA 116.025 B30 5 7 Botond, Balazs Budapest Hungary 113,000 R134 3 8 Grishuk, Alexander acqualatina Moscow Russia 111875 BR244 3 9 Guinther, Jimmie Hudson NH 110 425 R105 3 10 Rhea, Arthur Indianapolis IN 109 275 O63 3 11 Luht, Joe Baltimore MD 108,125 acqualatina BR233 9 12 Colin, Bryan Short Hills NJ 106,000 O71 1 13 Schaffel, Kevin Coral Springs FL 104,250 O69 5 14 Rogers, Timothy Great Falls MT 103 225 B6 3 15 Pickett, Michael Little Canada MN 101,200 R99 3 16 Pinteric, acqualatina Domen Kamnik Slovenija 1 101 175 O92 17 Makowsky, Daniel Zurich Switzerland 100 200 18 5 B28 Batov, Timothy Tulsa OK 100 025 B15 1 19 Patten, Luke Nayland New Zealand acqualatina 99 625 O84 5 20 Cao, Coba San Jose CA 99575 O66 5 21 Lovelady, Joey Liverpool England 99 300 O58 5 22 Etelapera, Tommi Jyvaskyla Finland 99025 O68 1 23 Arzoomanian, Paren Sydney Australia 98 825 BR249 7 24 'Kopp, Billy' Patrolman35 'Erlanger KY 98550 O91 9 25 EHAS, Eric Philadelphia PA 97850 O86 7 26 Riesenberg, Jason Halbur IA 93650 B37 3 27 Kim, Kevin Los Angeles CA 92675 O76 9 28 Sands, David - - 91150 R99 9 29 Navolanic, James A. North Olmstead OH 90225 O75 1 30 Morris , Matt St Louis MO 89800 O63 1 31 Alexander, Jason Los Angeles CA 89575 B10 5 32 Gogry, Steve - - 89525 B21 9 33 Banizuraij, Sami - - 89,500 R127 5 34 Wilson, John Schwylerville NY 89200 BR172 7 35 Warne, Shane Victoria Australia 87 625 B29 1 36 Nguyen, Phi Hawaiian Gardens CA 86550 BR176 9 37 Sitron, Scott Milwaukee WI 86450 R127 7 38 Mattes, Marco Weinheim Germany 85775 R126 1 39 Ausmus, Jeremy Las Vegas NV 85300 B3 9 40 Perry, Bruce Nashville TN 85075 R108 1 41 Veldhuis, Alexander Rotterdam Netherlands 84,000 B45 5 42 Elezra, Eli Las Vegas NV 83375 B43 1 43 Gotlieb, Joseph Hollywood FL 82275 BR169 5 44 Chow, Michael Honolulu HI 82200 B46 9 45 Ahmadian, Elijah Fairfax VA 81425 G151 9 46 Ventsko, Vladimir San Francisco CA 81250 B7 7 47 Nolan, Sean Boston acqualatina MA 81175 R103 1 48 Le, Nghia Shakopee MN 81000 O65 7 49 Phillips, John Saratoga Springs NY 80950 BR238 9 50 Olson, Carl Seattle WA 80825 B20 3 51 Kelly, Ken North Port FL 80775 R137 7 52 Mustafa Musa Orland acqualatina Park IL 80025 B46 3 53 Galic, Dragan Schneverdingen Germany 79.750 B16 1 54 Burbick, acqualatina Corey Davie FL 79725 BR170 7 55 Schneider, Tom Scottsdale acqualatina AZ 79600 BR246 9 56 Serock, Joseph Albuquerque NM 78700 B37 1 57 Demaci, Christopher Stanton CA 78525 BR167 5 58 Houle, Jean Visalia CA 78525 R110 9 59 Santi, Eduardo Buenos Aires Argentina 78475 BR242 5 60 Wilf, Saar Tel Aviv Israel 78450 O58 1 61 Kamran, Michael Los Angeles CA 78000 B43 3 62 Kruty , Jas