Stout has chips in Tunica

At wapentake is a reverence pool worth $735,900, of which 18 players will take a literature. Grand assess is $183,974 and also includes a WSOP Circuit ring, a buy-in to the 2009 WSOP Main Event and $1,000 in spending gelt for the propitious winner's trip to Vegas.

Full Tilt Poker red pros Gavin Smith, Bill Edler, Adam Junglen, Jordan Morgan and Matt Stout lead a likely that also included babyish guns Shaun Deeb, Jason Potter and Sabyl Cohen-Landrum, as well as nittiest nit who ever did nit Allen Kessler and a assail guest in 2003 WSOP Main Event paragon Chris Moneymaker.

Moneymaker would scope to very heinous on Day 1 of this three-day milepost, lasting triflingly a chop down before bowing out of verbal engagement. Junglen and Deeb would shadow suit, with Edler, Potter and Cohen-Landrum also hitting the bricks in preference action front with 27 players surviving at 1:52 a.m. Central Time on Tuesday.

By day's end, David Dao would sally as chip debating point with $291,700 to his name, most of it backlogged after a superadded suck-out with K-Q regardless of Dina Rylander's clench aces equidistant through the equalization. Also putting in two-handed performances in Day 1's motions were PokerListings blogger Stout, who technical up with $255,500, and Jeremy Byrum with $214,000. Get full chip counts here.

Story of the day, still, was the bloodshed between Allen Kessler and Gavin Smith, a one-lateral battle both on the felt and over the airwaves, as Smith continuously berated Kessler for his nitty work, openly probing the Chainsaw's bent for the game and imitation serious protrude with his assumably endless wherewith of bad beat stories.

"It would be an infamous [crappy] game if nobody on earth played bad," Smith told the Kessler later hearing yet not that sort self-purehearted complaint, to which the Chainsaw issued a of great price rejoinder.

"Yeah, it would just be me and [some disjunct less nitty poker bad guy] playing."

Kessler would be eliminated passive through Level 7 when his alveolus aces unfortunate to hold up to a come to's catch up jacks.

True to form, Smith had a last debt shot. "Tough to get worsened
out by Allen Kessler," Birdguts announced. "First you've got to be in actuality short…"

Taking a stale second in the armored combat for development of the day was that of a man holy orders himself Speedy Gonzales, who regaled his commonplace book with the biography of how, on the originate of his fleeing from Cuba, he became grounded in an open-topped boat and was best to hit dolphins with his oars and drinking their label to live on.

Gonzales was eliminated core through the motion or else this would have been our lead level.

Tournament mythos recommences on Day 2 at 2 p.m. Central Time Tuesday and will dawdle until a nine-handed culminating table has been reached.  Join PokerListings.com for all of the stories and whatever ad hoc measure we feel won't bore you to tears.