Day 1 WSOP, Jeff Korn Playing to win 12 million

Thanks to Sue Fink for all the photos from Day 1

Jeff Korn started his World Series of Poker Showdown today at 12pm (Vegas time). He his checking in every couple hours during his 20 minute breaks. I will try to keep you posted on his days as he moves closer to the 12 Million Dollar prize pool. I will get you caught up to date.

Jeff won a satellite tournament for $65 which paid for his seat to the WSOP 2006 Tournamnet in Vegas. Jeff started out on table 113 Seat 3. He started with $10,000 in chips.

I received my first call from Jeff just 40 minutes into the tournament. He had just won a $1000 pot and was already at $11,000 in chips. After that big had, he excused himself from the table to get out of the room and calm down. He was just a little nervous.

He went back in and resumed his play. He is playing good...but the players are playing soooo tight, the game is moving very slow.

At 4pm (vegas time) he was at $10.400 chips. Table still moving VERY slow.

At 8pm he was just under $10,000 chips and was on a 1 1/2 hour lunch break.

As of 10pm there have been some changes. There are still 1400 players out of the original 2100 that started this 4th group. They need to play down to 800 players. It has been 10 hours since he started playing today, and the table just got shifted around.

Right now Jeff is sitting next to Johnny Chan...the TOP poker player in the world of Poker. He has 3 poker pros sitting at his table. Johnny is sitting to Jeff's left...so he is gonna have to play his very best.

Keep you posted.

Here is the article that put him in the tournament (from Bodog.com)

Bodog WSOP Weekend Qualifiers
This year Bodog is sending 700 of its online players to the biggest poker tournament in the world. With total cash prizes exceeding $70 million and first place to walk away with $10 million, this year’s World Series of Poker will be the biggest ever.

It's not easy to qualify that many people so Bodog has recently turned up the heat and is awarding 40 Main Event seats every weekend for the WSOP in Las Vegas.

Congratualtions to last weekend's winners who won their $10,000 Main Event seat and $2500 in travel and expenses money:
Keith Brown, Bennett Nathanson, Thomas Heid, Clay Kellr, Grant Coombs,Fabio Bragaglia, Joseph Oslin, Brian Maguire, Jonathan Depa, Glenn Latona, James Garnet, Carlos Loving, Jeff Korn, Robert Hover, Tony Bott, Thomas Fitzgerald, Michelin Massey, Luis Fernandez, Mihai Soproni, Leon Harms, Kenneth Bell, Steven Thornton, Robert Nemeskeri-Kiss, Kevin Moss, Steve Friedlander, Kevin O'sullivan, Jamus Jacobs, Maurizio Marchese, James Thul, Todd Sharp, Harry Thomas , Johnny Phillips, Ron Winnegar, Rob Mason, Andrew Ahmadi, Richard Grijalva, Samuel Edwards, Justin Fawcett, Takamori Maruyama, Mark Forrester and Ha Thich.
Congratualtions and good luck in Vegas!

Check out Bodog's poker schedule to choose the WSOP qualifier that is right for you.
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