Doug Lee and an opponent were heads up with the board reading . Lee tossed 2,775 into a pot of about 5,000, and his opponent called. The on the river paired the board, and without thought Lee fired 6,075. His opponent tank-called.

Lee opened up , and his opponent mucked.

"King-queen," he told Lee.

Lee silently stacked his chips, and now sits with 53,000 in his stack.

Doug Lee

53,000

23,000

Over at Jordan "Scarface79" Smith's table there was an early position limper, the cutoff raised to 600 and the button called. Smith was in the small blind and popped it to 2,600. Smith's squeeze cleared the field and he stacked a small pot and is just above the starting stack.

On a flop, the big blind checked, and the under-the-gun player bet 1,500. Player 3 called next door, and Shawn Sheikhan put in a raise to 5,700 to thin the field. The big blind and the bettor folded, but Player 3 called again to proceed heads-up.

"You love to call me," Sheikhan told him, hinting at some history between the men today. In any event, the turn came the , and now Player 3 led out with a bet of his own, 3,500. Sheikhan flatted there, and both players checked through the river that paired the board.

Sheikhan showed for the little full house, but it was good enough to drag the pot, moving him up to about 35,000.

Entrants

· Only 3,637 of 68,807 entrants (prior to Main Event) have been female – or 5.3%
· Thus, the men represent 94.7% of all participants to date.

Individual Stats

· Of the 57 WSOP gold bracelets awarded, only Brian Rast (2) has won more than one.
· The current leader of the WSOP Player of the Year race is Phil Hellmuth (as of 7/10/2011).

Current 2011 WSOP Player-of-the-Year Leaderboard

In a five way pot, it was checked to David Vamplew who bet 1,425 and received just a solitary caller to see the turn. Vamplew fired out 3,750 this time but his opponent quickly raised to 10,000 and the Scottish EPT winner didn't waste much time in quickly folding

Jennifer Tilly started the action, raising to 550 from early position. She received two calls from middle position, and Toni Judet put in a three-bet to 2,300 on the button. Tilly and one of the callers mucked, but a gentleman in the hijack seat threw in enough chips to call, and the flop fell .

Judet's opponent immediately led for 2,000, and Judet raised to 5,700. The player called. The two knuckled after the turned, and then Judet's opponent tossed out a measly 2,500 when the hit the river. Judet immediately called.

Judet's opponent must have been confused with the quick call, because it took him about ten seconds to finally table his hand - . Upon seeing the wired jacks, Judet tabled two black queens, and won the pot.

Toni Judet

41,000

12,300

With 2,200 in the pot preflop and four players in the hand, action checked to a player in middle position on the flop. He promptly bet 900, John Juanda raised to 2,700 from the cutoff, and action folded back around to the original bettor who made the call.

The middle-position player proceeded to check call a bet of 6,800 on the turn, before both players checked the river. The middle-position player wasn't sheepish about turning over his for a set, which inspired Juanda to toss his hand to the muck.

John Juanda

30,450

-1,350

With the conclusion of Day 1c yesterday, the Day 2a table and seat draw is now available for viewing. To check out the draw, click here to view the PDF file. All 2,031 remaining players from Day 1a and Day 1c should be listed. Day 2a will take place on Monday, July 11, 2011 and begin promptly at 12:00 PM PT.

Note that anyone listed with a chip count of "1" did not report their count or it was illegible by the World Series of Poker staff. The Day 2b draw will become available after the completion of Day 1d today.

We arrived at the table and found that after a series of preflop raises, an opponent had re-raised all in and put Casey McCarrel to the test.

McCarrel, who had already committed at least 16,000 to the pot, appeared close to letting his hand go, but opted to call about 15,000 more. His opponent tabled , leaving McCarrel in bad shape with . However, McCarrel hit the board bigtime as it rolled out to send his opponent to the rail.

After the hand David Baker laughingly said, "Easiest kings fold...ever."

McCarrel got a good laugh out of it and is all smiles with a stack of about 71,000.

Casey McCarrel

71,000

41,000

Getting the official number of players from the staff is a bit like pulling alligator teeth today as they're choosing to keep that info very close to the vest. Still, we're doing what we can to gather intel. We know that we crossed the 6,000-player mark sometime yesterday evening, and the field has continued to grow significantly over the last 24 hours. Based on the limited info from the staff and a quick count of the tables in play, we can safely say that at least 2,800 players have registered for this Day 1d, bringing the total number up over 6,800. That means we've already surpassed the 6,494 players from 2009, and we've likely bested the 6,844 from 2008 as well. It looks like we'll come up a bit short of last year's 7,319, but it's still a possibility with registration open for some time yet.

Again, this is all unofficial. But still. The third-largest Main Event in history? In a supposedly down year? That's quite a feat, and we'd imagine there'll be a few bottles of the bubbly in the staff room later tonight.

A player sitting under the gun minimum-raised to 400 and got three callers including Abe Mosseri from middle position. The player in the small blind then made it 2,100 to go, forcing out everyone but Mosseri.

The flop came , and the reraiser checked quickly. Mosseri studied the board for a moment, then tossed out a bet of 2,200. His opponent sat quietly for a half-minute, then pushed his cards dealerward.

Mosseri, who owns one WSOP bracelet (2009, $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw), has chipped up to 56,000 within the first three hours of play today.

The player under the gun opened for 800, Ray Henson called behind and the small blind went along. The flop came , the small blind checked, the UTG player checked and Henson bet 1,150. The small blind called and the UTG player folded. The turn came , the small blind checked and Henson bet 2,800. The small blind folded and Henson is up to 47,500.

As we were walking by Table 48, we noticed that Seat 4 was occupied by Kelly Kim, who had recently been moved from the Green Section. However, Seat 4 used to belong to WSOP-Circuit superstar Mark "Pegasus" Smith. The game of musical chairs can only mean that Smith has been eliminated from the Main Event.

Kelly Kim	17,500	0
Mark "Pegasus" Smith	0	-30,000

Prahlad Friedman was very short very early and finally just busted. He got his last few chips all in preflop with and got a few callers who battled out. Eventually when it was all said and done, the winning player took down the pot with a set of sixes and Friedman hit the rail.

Prahlad Friedman

0

-2,900

Jennifer Tilly is down to almost 20,000 in chips after losing a sizeable pot to an opponent over on table 293.

The action folded around to the player in the hijack who raised to 525 before the flop; Tilly called from the cutoff, as did the big blind to go three ways into a flop of .

The big blind checked to the hijack who led out for 750 and Tilly and the big blind flat-called before the dealer produced the turn of the . Again, the big blind checked, but he folded after the hijack led out for 1,200 and Tilly called, making it heads-up to the river of the .

This time, the hijack checked and Tilly opened for 3,000. The hijack called, tabling and Tilly kicked her hand into the muck.

Jennifer Tilly

20,700

-10,700

With 3,000 in the pot and a flop of , a player in early position bet 2,700 only to have Chris DeMaci raise to 6,800 from the cutoff. The original bettor eventually splashed in a call and both players proceeded to check down the turn and river.

The early-position player confidently rolled over for a full house. DeMaci simply mucked as he dropped to 32,000.

Chris DeMaci

32,000

2,000

The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event is in full swing and we've decided to follow Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso as she competes on Day 1d of the Main Event. We've got Danielle Barille on the task at hand and you can follow along as she shadows Rousso for an entire day at the WSOP Main Event. Check it out.

Julian Thew hasn't had the easiest start today, he's down to just a half stack after he paid off a 6,200 bet on the river of an board, only to be shown by his opponent.

Julian Thew

15,000

-13,500

2010 WSOP Player of the Year Frank Kassela has had a pretty abysmal series so far by his standards, and after a bad call in this last hand, he has not started the Main Event off well either.

We came into a hand on the turn with the board reading and the player in the big blind open-shoved for 23,100. Kassela was understandably a little taken aback and he went into the tank for some time. Eventually he made the call and his opponent tabled and Kassela just said, "you're crushing" as he flipped over his The river was the and Kassela has fallen to just around 7,000. Not a good start to the day

Frank Kassela

7,400

-22,600