Online Poker Digest

At this year’s World Series of Poker, Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event was another exciting day. Only 205 will be moving on to day 6 and 574 players started the day. In this year’s Main Event, the more notable poker pros still alive is, Johnny Chan. At the top of the bracelet leader board, Chan is hoping to earn his record-tying 11th bracelet to join Phil Hellmuth. As the only players, Stu Ungar and Johnny Moss, to win 3 Main Event titles Chan would also tie with them. If Chan can keep up his current success, it should be pretty exciting to see.

At the Main Event, the Mizrachi family is also having an exceptional time. Two of the four brothers will be back for day 6, as they have survived the day 5. Eric and Danny failed on days 4 and 5 respectively and were not as lucky. Although it was an exceptional main event for the four poker players, every Mizrachi family member was able to make the money.

After day 5, Josh Brikis, Matt Affleck, Adam Levy, Bryn Kenney, John Racener, Jesper Hougaard and Phil Galfond were the other notables who were still alive. On day 5, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Somerville, Allie Prescott, Allie Prescott, Sam Farha, and Scotty Nguyen and Scotty Nguyen are some players who were not as lucky and saw their tournament end.

Day 6 – July 15th

As day 5, day 6 saw just as much action at the Main Event. There is a great chance that some of poker’s biggest names will be at this year’s final table, with only 78 players remaining. With 7.535 Million chips, Michael Mizrachi is in 2nd place overall, heading the list of potential poker stars. John Racener, Alexander Kostritsyn, Theo Jorgensen and William Thorson are the other notables in the top 10.

Of the November Nine, one famous poker name that will not be a part is Johnny Chan. on day 6; Chan was eliminated after running into pocket aces twice. With pocket kings, being the first and the second time was with a pocket jacks and short stack. Until next year, to earn the11th World Series bracelet, Chan will have to wait.

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.