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The main event startes on the 28th! I'm going to be coming to Vegas to watch day 1 action and hopefully be able to watch through to day 3. Good luck Daniel at the Main event this year and at the H.O.R.S.E. event also. Hope to see you as you bust some more players!As a little side note Daniel is currently the chip leader at the short handed event #5 at the W.S.O.P. and is at 81,500. The closest competitor is Paul Kraus who has only 50,000. Keep up the good work Daniel!

I've read several articles on Rounders recently and the thought of maybe making a sequel. Think about this. Rounders is undoubtably the most well known Poker movie ever. Everyone who has played poker has seen this movie and or heard of it. If they were to make a sequel, ecspecially now with the boom in full swing, what do you think they could do with it? Here is my idea and feel free to come up with your own story line.Rounders 2First off bring back the origional cast to the best of their ability. I figure it wouldn't be too hard to at least get Damon and Norton. Story takes place not where it

Yeah, I wonder how many of the other players are takin a break right now.

Anymore new updates Paddy?

Hey Patty, has there been any early KO's?

Another question, do you know if any of Daniel's friends are in this tournament? Such David Williams and Carlos Mortenson. If so what are their cash counts?

Hi Daniel, I was wondering if you could tell me advanced strategy in Omaha. I've began playing omaha online in 1-2 pot limit and I was wondering if you could tell me about some good starting hands and how to play a mixture of different situations. Thanks and good luck in Borgata.Best regards,Andy

Hey thanks for covering the event. DO you know how many people are playing at the Borgata main event today? Thanks.

I would just like to make this little blog to congratulate Daniel on a very masterfully done game of poker. I watched the updates and hand by hand analysis and you really took control of the table. Congrats and good luck in the future.Best regards,Andy

looks like Daniel did exactly what he said he would do and he is one of the chip leaders with a very impressive stack, here are the last 27 players of the day.1 Don Barton $ 244,200 2 Brian Lamkin $ 218,900 3 Lee Markholt $ 169,600 4 Daniel Alaei $ 140,900 5 Daniel Negreanu $ 140,200 6 Ernest Shepherd $ 132,500 7 Khosrow Naraghian $ 116,500 8 Brandon Adams $ 111,400 9 Bryant King $ 110,300 10 Bill Edler $ 106,100 11 George Bro

Daniel's chip stack is currently at $78,000. The average stack is $65,135. He is still a little above average but if he wants to coast into the final table with plenty of chips he is going to have to start hitting the accelerator, chip leader is Daniel Alaei with $183,000. Updates will continue later.

Daniel has a chip count of about $79,000, the average is about $43,818. At this moment there are 44 players left.Here is a list of the rest of the field. It's far from over.1 Daniel Alaei $ 142,000 2 Wendell Barnes $ 124,000 3 Bryant King $ 118,000 4 Jeff Seibert $ 115,000 5 Chad Brown $ 112,200 6 Layne Flack $ 95,000 7 Khosrow Naraghian $ 91,000 8 Don Mullis $ 87,400 9 Robert Schulz $ 83,000 10 Jean-Robert Bellande $ 80,000 1

During updates last night I came upon some information that Mike Matusow was really letting Daniel have it. I was just wondering what were some of the things he said to Dan. Thanks.

Ina correction from last night Daniel has $38,500 in chips and the average is 31,298 at the end of day 1. Finally The chip leader is Josh Prager with $89,825. Tonight I will continue with more updates as they come.

Thats it for day 1 folks. The average chip stack for the last 80 some people is 27,386, and Daniel is doing quite well with over 42,000. I will continue tomorrow morning with some more updated posts and I will continue to have more coverage on the event. Until tomorrow, good night.