The 150 / 300 level of play at the WSOPE is complete, but players will come back for another 90 minutes of similar blinds with a 25 ante tacked on to up the pot sizes.  After that level is complete the players will then be off to take a 90 minute dinner break before returning [...]

After the early table break most of the empty seats around the room were filled in. Shaun Deeb was sent down to the poker room and filled the 9 seat at a table with Steven “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer in the 1 seat, Nick “fu_15″ Maimone in the 2 seat, Mike “Timex” McDonald in the 3 [...]

The second grouping of day 1 players at the WSOPE now have a full level under the belt.  The starting stacks are 30k and the blinds start out at 50 / 100 making the play pretty deep for the first few levels.  Even with the deep stacks the chips end up in the middle here [...]

In the past hour, players holding a wired pair of sevens have taken big pots off of P5ers.
Joep “Pappe_Ruk” van den Bijgaart (pictured left) ran into sevens on Table 34. The board read AA573 and an opponent led out for about 4.5K. Joep tossed an orange 5K chip in the middle and his opponent tabled [...]

The players have just returned from dinner here at Day 1B of the Main Event. And, less than twenty minutes into level three, Shaun Deeb’s (pictured at left) stack is about one-third what it was when he left his table for the break after running into a set twice.
The player in seat one raised to [...]