Day 2 for the players in the other three flights will be Wednesday. Day 1F was held Tuesday alongside Day 2 for players who entered 1A, 1B or 1D. The Main Event is being held with six starting flights and two Day 2 sessions. (The WSOP awards trophy bracelets for tournament victories.) Meanwhile, Hellmuth entered the final starting flight of the Main Event with his typical fanfare, arriving dressed as Gandalf the White from “The Lord of the Rings,” with a string of models trailing behind him.Īt past Main Events, Hellmuth, the all-time leader with 16 WSOP bracelets, has arrived dressed as a Roman gladiator, a military officer and a boxer, and he once crashed a stock car in the parking lot.
The 10-time WSOP bracelet winner and two-time Main Event champion had 129,800 chips at the dinner break on Day 2 for part of the remaining field in the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship.īrunson played most of the day seated next to Scotter Clark, who was dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. Phil Hellmuth came dressed as a wizard, but poker’s wise man was still toiling a few tables away.Īt age 88, Doyle Brunson continued his run in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Tuesday at the Rio.
Phil Hellmuth sits down dressed as Gandalf the White from 'The Lord of the Rings' on Day 1F of the World Series of Poker Main Event on Tuesday, Nov.
