Day One of Championship Event Ends With Adam Friedman as Chip Leader
Batch of top California Pros Make Appearance
The $5,000 championship event at Caesars Indiana, the final stop on the 2006-2007
WSOP Circuit tour, got underway today aboard "The Glory of Rome,"
the world's largest riverboat casino. It drew 154 players who generated a prize
pool of $736,900. Because it coincided with the final day of the championship
event at Foxwoods, the number of entrants was slightly down from the 169 players
who showed up for last October's finale here. Nonetheless, it capped a highly
successful 10-event tournament that drew a grand total of 2,966 entrants along
with a total prize pool of $1,916,630. First place will play $238,656 plus an
entry into the $10,000 WSOP championship event.
Caesars Indiana is located in the town of Elizabeth, on the Ohio River, surrounded
by lovely rolling countryside and just a short drive from the famed tourist
center of Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Louisville Slugger and Muhammad
Ali museums.
This event drew a large contingent of top pros from California that included
"the Robin Hood of Poker," Barry Greenstein, along with his friend
and protégée Mimi Tran; Men "The Master" Nguyen, Chris
"Armenian Express" Grigorian, and Young Phan. Also on deck were Scott
Fischman and horse breeder Mark Smith, winner of the Circuit championship at
Grand Casino Tunica last year. Smith, incidentally, did very well in the Ladies
Only event here. No, he didn't play in it, but he did sponsor two ladies with
whom he plays in a home game in Lexington, Kentucky, and the two finished second
and fourth.
Each player today started with 10,000 in chips. As happened last year, action
was very fast at the outset, then slowed considerably as players dropped quickly.
As the next-to-last round ended, Greenstein pulled in a large pot when an opponent
folded, giving him about 57,000 and in a rough tie with Fischman for third place.
Two other players had about 90,000 and 70,000 respectively.
The day ended with 33 players remaining and Adam Friedman holding the chip
lead with 126,100. They will return at noon tomorrow to play down to the final
nine;
--Max Shapiro
End of Day One Seats and Chip Counts:
Table 19
Ynes Guerra 39,900 1
2
Larry Bueter 10,700 3
4
Craig Sorrell 26,800 5
Steve Boyle 89,400 6
Willard Cupp 29,000 7
Tim McCarthy 65,300 8
Derek Demolet 28,600 9
Table 20
Neal Harding 48,100 1
2
Young Phan 73,800 3
Dean Schultz 28,000 4
Gabe Cook 14,800 5
Barry Greenstein 69,000 6
Frank Gary 13,400 7
Bryan Sapp 29,200 8
9
Dennis Anness 115,000 10
Table 26
1
Troy Sutton 92,500 2
Hilbert Shirey - D 32,200 3
Gilbert Lusby 36,000 4
Joel Casper 47,100 5
Rod Derrow 11,400 6
Scott Fischman 75,400 7
Ed Corrado 30,400 8
John Hayes Jr. 21,600 9
Ronnie Nichols 8,100 10
Table 34
Shawn Quillin 71,000 1
Armando Pagliari 23,700 2
Jamie Eisenhut 50,100 3
4
Tommy Mayes 24,900 5
Men "The Master" 64,300 6
William Billot 23,100 7
Adam Friedman 126,100 8
John Hegele 27,000 9
Kevin Marcotte 17,800 10
Payout Schedule:
1. $238,756
2. $125,273
3. $73,690
4. $58,952
5. $44,214
6. $36,845
7. $29,476
8. $22,107
9. $14,738
10.$11,790
11.$11,790
12.$11,790
13.$10,317
14.$10,317
15.$10,317
16.$8,843
17.$8,843
18.$8,843
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