Not WSOP 2005 - Tunica’s Main Event Kicks Off

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After well over a week of watching roadkill-eating yokels knocking out victories in Tunica’s WSOP Circuit Event, poker reporter Jason Kirk must be as thrilled as we are to finally have a few pros showing up to try and take down the Main Event’s $572k top prize.

“The list of players who began reads like a Who’s Who of Poker: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Tex Barch, Amir Vahedi, John Juanda, John Myung, Chip Jett, Barry Greenstein, Robert Williamson III, Carlos Mortensen, Josh Arieh, Freddy Deeb, Erick Lindgren, Scotty Nguyen, Hoyt Corkins, Eskimo Clark, Eric Cloutier, Erik Seidel, Mark Seif, Mimi Tran, James Van Alstyne, Kathy Liebert, Steve Zolotow, Glyn Banks, and Mike Sica are all here looking to rack up leaderboard points.”

Day one brought the field from 179 down to 71 players looking to make the money (top 18 cash). Our boy Cinnabon is supposedly sitting on an average chipstack, but you know how us guys like to over-estimate the size of our stacks.

Main Event, Day One [Jason Kirk]