WSOP 2008 Main Event, Day 1b: Tony Hachem Strong

The 2nd day of the 2008 WSOP Main Event has come to a conclusion with Aussie celebrities Shane Warne and Jeff Fenech in action. Day 1b attracted 1158 players from all around the world, all vying for the millions on offer. Last year’s Main Event winner started the day off announcing the famous “shuffle up and deal” to all the players. The second day featured the following players; PokerStars‘ Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, Andy Black, Ram Vaswani and the entertaining Humberto Brenes.

Negreanu was unlucky when he was dumped out of the tournament with a set, losing to a higher set. In a day that saw many big names prosper and fail, Ben Sarnoff finished the day ahead of the rest of the pack with 177 500 chips. There were 636 players that will be coming back for the second day of action.

The best of the Aussies playing on Day 1b was Australian Poker player Tony Hachem. The brother of 2005 WSOP Main Event winner Joe Hachem, Tony finished the day with 76 050 chips to put himself in a solid position going into the action on day 2. Billy ‘The Croc” Argyros is continiuing his solid play at the WSOP as he finished the day on 30 450 chips. Other good perfromances include Julian Powell on 71 100 and Leo Boxell on 31 000. Good luck to all Aussies left in the event.

Day 1c sees some more Australian poker players in action. Jeff Lisandro, Tony G, Mel Judah and Joe Hachem are some of the Aussies in action. A full report on their performance will be given folloing the conclusion of Day 1c.