Scott Diamond

The 10,000 Main Event started today at 2:00pm PST today here at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California.

There were 161 entries for the first of two start dates this year and by 4;00pm there were 9 people on the road home. the most notable was Joe Sebok who had Aces and Kings busted and left him short stacked almost immediately.

All players started with 30,000 in chips and the levels are 90 minutes long,so there is quite a bit of play.

Some of the notables there today were, Eric Seidel,Men the Master, Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso, Vinny Vinh,Bryan Devonshire, Eric Lindgren,John Phan,Gavin Smith, Antoni Esfiandari,who is supposed to go on a ride with me in the morning And several others.

Daniel Negreneau stopped by and I had a nice conversation with him and he was very wound up and appeared to be very happy he was here in Los Angeles.He was doing an interview with Amanda Letherman from Poker Road so you should check it out and see how excited he was for yourself.

It was a pretty slow evening and there was some tense players in the group,but as always if you were at John Phans table, it had a party like atmosphere.

My good friend Jorge Pineda who won his seat into the event unfortunately will not make it to day two on Monday as he had an early exit.

Not much else to report, very slow day. They are still running some $1,000.00 satellites tomorrow morning to give someone a chance to play at the 2pm start time.

So if your feeling lucky head on down to the Bike and take a shot at a Million Dollar payday.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a little more exciting. have a great day..take care..Be Safe..