Update: WSOP 2010 Main Event Winners And Losers

With fifty-six gold bracelets already awarded at the 2010 World Series of Poker, all that remains of this year’s competition is to determine a winner for the last and biggest event of them all; the $10,000 no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em  Main Event.
The Main Event always draws the biggest field and with the total attendance for the 2010 WSOP already surpassing last year’s record of 60,875 players, it is widely expected that this year’s Main Event too, will exceed all expectations.
The 2009 WSOP Main Event attracted 6,494 players, creating a total prize pool of $60,043,650 with $8,546,453 of that going to eventual winner Joe Cada. Day 1 of this year’s competition is spread out over four days to provide a more manageable structure for the tournament and the 1,125 hopefuls who entered on the traditionally smaller Day 1a have already beaten last year’s figure.
At the Main Event, each player starts with 30,0000 in chips but by the end of Day 1a, over 300 players had been eliminated with Stuart Nitzkin of Northfield, Ill having the dubious honour of being the first man out after just 35 minutes of play. Other notables to leave the playing field included 2004 tournament winner Greg Raymer, TJ Cloutier, Billy Baxter, Ray Romano, Nick Schulman, Chino Rheem, Mike Caro, Victor Ramdin and Jimmy Fricke.
On the other side of the coin, Barry Schulman, Chris Moneymaker, Dwyte Pilgrim, Scott Seiver, Praz Bansi, Vitaly Lunkin, Corwin Cole, Lacey Jones,  and Chad Batista have all had good days are are currently sitting on above average stacks.
Michael Mizrachi has already had a golden WSOP 2010, having cashed in at four events, collecting $1,684,051 in prize money and winning a WSOP bracelet along the way.  Currently sitting on well over 100,000 chips, Mizrachi finds himself near the top of the chip count and is one of the players expected to excel at this year’s event.
Three-times bracelet winner Mike “The Mouth” Matusow had some interesting advise for any would be contenders and said; “I think your best bet to make it to Day 2 is not show up to Day 1.” Pity he didn’t take his own advise as he too was sent to the rail early on in the day.