There's just under one hour to go in the final Day 1 of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event. Right now, we've got Maynard Little topping the charts with 171,200 in chips. That's still a good ways off of the 209,500 that Fred Berger bagged up after Day 1a, but there's still time for stacks to be built here. We'll see if anyone can eclipse that mark put up by Berger a few days ago.

Greg Mueller was down to just 7,400 lonely chips, and he got them all in before the flop in pretty bad shape. Mueller's ran smack into an opponent's , putting "FBT" five cards from the door.

Not so fast, my friend! The board ran out , and Mueller was spelled from elimination on the final card. "Oh baby!" he celebrated. "The kid gets lucky!"

Lucky it was, and that lucky double moves Mueller back into contention with about half his starting stack -- 15,000 or so.

Douglas Smith and Shawn Cunix have been sharing space for quite a while now, each holding at least 100,000 each, but Cunix is now well out in front after sitting back to watch Smith lose a few in this hand on table 276.

The action folded around to the player in middle position who limped in before the flop; the small blind called and Smith checked in the big blind before all three players checked down the flop of .

The small blind and Smith then checked to the middle position player after the dealer produced the on the turn, only to both fold after he led out for 1,600.

Smith's no longer in the 100K club, down to less than 84,000. However, all of Cunix's followers will be pleased to know that he's on more than 137,000 in chips!

Shawn Cunix	137,200	36,200
Douglas Smith	83,800	-22,600

We found this hand developing on the turn with John Dolan, in the small blind, betting out 2,425. The board read and Dolan's opponent called. The river came and Dolan fired out 6,025. His opponent tanked for a short while before calling.

Dolan half smiled and turned over and his opponent revealed and took the pot. Dolan was left with only 6,525.

We're starting to keep a hawkeye out for big stacks in the Orange section. Here are the chip daddies at this point:

Dax Mellon	144,000
Andrew Chen	137,000	6,000
Steve Garfinkle	130,000	2,000
Ricardo Tambini	120,000
Mike Kosowki	112,000	-6,000
Julian Iacob	105,000
John Hewitt	105,000
Freddy Deeb	100,000	8,000
Sam Chartier	95,000	56,000

Todd Brunson recently was moved over to the white section where he wasted no time getting involved in a pot. Brunson from late position bet out 1,100 and received a call from the player on the button preflop. With a flop being spread out both players opted to check.

The brought a repeat of action as again both players knuckled.

A river almost had us leaving to find a more interesting hand when all of a sudden instead of checking Brunson bet out 3,100 and received a call fairly quickly. Brunson tabled for a set of fours and his opponent simply deposited his cards in the muck and Brunson was awarded the pot.

Todd Brunson

40,000

7,000

We don't know how we managed to miss her, but Amanda Musumeci was recently spotted in the field. Not only that, she is sitting with a pretty big stack . . . 130,000! Needless to say, we'll be keeping an eye on her from here on out.

Matt Matros just called an opponent's all-in bet of about 25,000 with the . His opponent held the . The board ran out and Matros won the hand. He's now got about 70,000 in chips.

The WSOP floor staff on duty have been a big talking point throughout the Rio poker room during this evening's session of play, but the topic is not about the rules, it's all about the white threads they're rocking in a new tradition they've dubbed, "White Suit Sunday".

Lead Tournament Supervisor Steve Frezer, who's been working here at the WSOP for six years, was happy to share with us the story of how the idea came about.

"Actually, it started last week," Frezer said. "We did it just for kicks. One of our other guys came in wearing one and we thought that was cool, so we all went out to the outlet stores and bought one each. From now on, in every Day 1d of the Main Event, we're gonna be wearing white suits."

Not all the supervisors were convinced to begin with: "We had one guy (Troy Stomer) thinking he was going to be the only one that'd turn up in a white suit, but as you can see, we're all running around here in the same outfit – except for Robbie Thompson, he chickened out!"

Even 2005 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Hachem was so impressed that he told Frezer that he was going to wear a white suit in the Main Event next year. We reckon that players like Tony 'bond18' Dunst would be a lock for White Suit Sunday (as his penchant for suits is well-known), but Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier has already gotten into the spirit of the occasion tonight with his get-up whilst playing in the Mothership.

By our judgement, we reckon that white's all right! Looking sharp, lads!

Following a flop, a player in middle position bet 2,600, and Vanessa Rousso called from the button. The turn was the , and this time Rousso's opponent checked. Rousso took the invitation to bet 4,800, and her opponent called.

The river brought the . Rousso's opponent checked, and after pausing a good while Rousso checked as well.

"Ace is good," said Rousso before seeing her opponent's for kings. Those were good, too, as she explained she had had a straight flush draw.

Rousso was up over 50,000 earlier, but has slipped to about 35,000 now.

Amit Makhija opened from under the gun to 1,000 and a late position player raised it up to 2,350. Action folded around back to Makhija and he called. The flop came and Makhija check-called 2,600. The turn came , Makhija checked and his opponent bet out 5,400.

Makhija put out his stack of 5,000 chips putting his opponent all in. The player called and tabled for a flush. Makhija held for a flopped set and needed the board to pair to take back the lead. He binked when it came and Makhija sent 23,700 across the table, leaving him with 26,700.

From under the gun, Bryan Pimlott raised it up to 1,025 and Matt Savage called from middle position.

The flop came down , Pimlott checked, Savage bet 1,600 and Pimlott called. The turn came down , Pimlott checked again, Savage bet 2,600 and Pimlott again called. The river came and Pimlott bet out this time for 5,000. Savage folded and fell to 43,000. Pimlott has gotten himself over double starting stack and is sitting with right around 72,000.

Bryan Pimlott	72,000	5,500
Matt Savage	43,000	25,300

Julian Thew raised to 1,000 from the button before the big blind made it 3,000 with just 9,050 behind. Thew moved all and was quickly called by his opponent.

Thew:
Big Blind:

The board came out as Thew dropped to just 6,000 while his opponent moved up to 25,000.

Action was raised to 1,025 by a player in middle position and the hijack seat called before it folded to Lars Bonding in the small blind. Bonding also called and action was three-ways to the flop. The flop came down and action checked to the preflop raiser. He bet 1,625 and the hijack seat folded. Bonding came along with a call.

The turn brought the and both players checked to see the complete the board on the river. Bonding led for 2,575 and his opponent raised to 6,775. "Really, pocket tens?" questioned Bonding. He then folded his hand and said, "Nice river."

Lars Bonding

86,000

4,000

There was about 4,000 in the middle and the board read . David "Doc" Sands, acting with characteristic deliberation, his movements seemingly choreographed in super slo-mo, tapped the felt to check, and his opponent checked behind. The turn was the . Again acting slowly, Sands collected chips for a bet of 1,450, and his opponent called.

The river brought the . Sands again sat motionless for 20 seconds or more, then carefully set out a bet of 5,050. His opponent held his head in his hands, rechecked his cards, then tapped the felt as he mucked.

In startling contrast, Sands stacked up his newly-won chips with quickness, neatly assembling them into color-coordinated columns before the next hand was dealt. Sands' day has been one of virtual stasis, though, as he presently sits with just about 30,000, the same amount he had when the day began.

With a few thousand chips in the middle, Mike Sexton checked the final board of to his lone opponent. The player fired 2,800 and Sexton gave it a moment of thought. He then folded his hand and gave up the pot, slipping back a tiny bit, but still sitting on a decent stack of over 50,000.

Mike Sexton

56,300

5,300

We've mentioned it before, but we thought it couldn't hurt to remind you all of what today's 2,802 players are competing for. All told, the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event drew 6,865 runners and created a prize pool worth $64,531,000 that will be distributed among the top 693 players as follows:

Total

Players per day

Payouts

It looks like Vanessa Peng was the preflop raiser from under the gun, but we only joined the three-way flop as the dealer was spreading out . Peng's continuation bet of 2,200 got her heads-up with one opponent, but he'd end up being a pest for the remainder of the hand. Peng check-called a bet of 3,500 from the gentleman after the turn, and he bet another 5,000 following the river. Peng didn't like it, but she flicked the single calling chip into the pot.

The gentleman showed for top two pair, and Peng silently mucked, dropping back under starting stack to about 24,000.