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The 2006 WSOP main event just keeps getting bigger...

This year the field has even managed to exceed early predictions with over 9,000 players registering for what is easily the largest tournament in the history of the game.

Day 1A of the main event featured three members from the Poker.com Team, which included:

• Leafy68
  
• Brian41683
  
• xJOKER22x

Poker.com Main Event Summary:

Hand: Leafy loses to runner runner straight
Leafy - Q9s Vs Opponent - 35s
Flop: Q 9 2 Turn: 4 River: 6

- Level 3 has leafy down to a third of her starting and has chip leaders to her left and right
- She tightens up and no hands are played for 35 mins during level 3

Hand: Leafy takes down pot
- Player raises pre-flop to $500
- Another player re-raises to $1000
- leafy comes over the top & pushes all in
- table folds

Hand: Leafy changes table & doubles up
- Leafy limps in UTG with AJos
-BB raises x 2
- Leafy calls
flop: rag J 10 (rainbow)
- Leafy bets $1000 & is called
Turn: J
- Leafy bets $1000
- Opponent re-raises all-in & Kelly calls
- showdown - KJ Vs AJ
- Leafy wins with a set of J's and Ace kicker

Hand: Leafy can't dodge bullets & busts out
- Leafy short stacked
- Level 5 blinds 150/300 ante 25
- BB pre-flop raise of 1000
- Leafy calls with AKos
Flop: rag A rag
- Leafy pushes all in & is immediately called
- BB shows AA

Considering this is Leafy68's first ever live tournament and that she managed to win her WSOP entry for free, then she can be very proud of today's performance and walk out with her head held high.

xJoker22x Summary:
- Looked very relaxed at the tables
- Won some mid-size pots on the turn, no callers
- Above average size chip stack for his and surrounding tables
- Still playing

Current WSOP Standings:
1st Mike Erstling - 84,000
2nd Paul McCaffrey - 76,000
3rd Cuong Do - 73,500
4th Mark Vos - 65,000
5th Yervand Boyadjian - 63,500
6th Jeffrey Lisandro - 59,600
7th Luan Phan - 56,000
8th Hoyt Corkins - 52,500
9th Mike Epstein - 50,000
10th David Pham - 45,000

You may remember the Aussie, Mark Vos, who recently won his first WSOP bracelet in the $2,000 NLHE and pocketed himself $803,274 for his troubles. It's still early days, but 4th place is a nice spot to find yourself in near the end of day 1A.

Be sure to check back and see how our players hold up on day 1B.

Liam @ Poker.com
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