At the 2010 World Series of Poker, Day 1c of the Main Event is complete. It was an increase from Monday’s and Tuesday’s day 1 flights as 2,314 players entered the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship event. at least 1,567 players will need to show up for day 1d, the last flight, in order for the 2010 main event to surpass the size of the 2009 main event and so far a total of 4,928 players have signed up for this year’s main event.

For some former main event winners, the third first day of competition was a good day. Johnny Chan, after his day 1 with about 150,000 chips, is among the chip leaders. To have his set over set hold up early in the day to increase his stack size to about 60,000, Chan was fortunate enough. From there he was able to put together an impressive first day of competition and gather more chips.

David Williams, the 2004 main event runner up, sits at about the same stack size of 150,000 and also had a nice first day. Joe Cada, last year’s winner, doubled his chip count heading into day 2, and survived day 1 of the 2010 main event. Michael Mizrachi, Sam Farha, Patrik Antonious, Michael DeMichele, and Hoyt Corkins are some other notable poker pros that are near the top of the chip counts.

It was not accommodating to some of the best pro poker and online poker players in the world even though day 1c was kind to some players. Men Nguyen, Phil Hellmuth, Isabella Mercier, Dario Minieri, and Jeff Madsen were some notable eliminations from yesterday.