Friday, November 17, 2017 2:24 PM Local Time
Friendly Neighbors
The field is just over 100 entries for Day 1A, a bit of a slow start for an event with a $1 million guarantee. Las Vegas is a sleep-in town, though, and this property historically draws a late rush and a huge Day 1B crowd.
The room is sparsely littered with notables, including a handful of Circuit ring winners and other standouts. A few of them have started the day as neighbors.
Kyle Cartwright is a seven-time Circuit winner, and he's drawn a seat to the left of Wendy Freedman, herself a ring owner. There's an empty chair in between them, but they're neighbors for now.
Two-time ring winer Brett Bader is in the one seat at Table 122, and his neighbor to the left is Matt Affleck. Affleck is not yet a Circuit winner, but he's an accomplished tournament player with well over a million dollars in career earnings.
Bracelet winner John Morgan is at a table in the far corner, and he was just joined by Jon Turner. Turner is another in Affleck's category of fine players without a piece of WSOP jewelry yet.