Scott Diamond

Today the second starting day of The Legends of Pokers Main Event, started at 2:00pm at the Bicycle Casino.

There were 212 players who showed up to play the $10,000.00 No Limit Tournament which is the second largest event here in the Los Angeles area every year.

A total of 373 players entered to make first place One million and ninety eight thousand dollars and second place Five hundred and sixty three thousand. Last years tournament had 475 players and was won by Dan Harrington.

The big story of this tournament is the big name players who did show up. No Doyle Brunson,Todd Brunson,Scotty Nguyen,Mike Gracz,Chris Bell,J.C.Tran,Nam Le,Phil Hellmuth,Mike Matusow,Annie Duke,Howard Lederer,Michael Demichelle,Joe Hachem and Andy Bloch.

Some who did come to play are Mark Seif,Alan Cunnigham,Chris Ferguson,Jordan Morgan,Brandon Cantu,Theo Tran,Kathy Libert,Kenna James,Michael Binger,Maria Ho,Barry Greenstein,Layne Flack,Kelly Kim and David Levi just to name a few.

Phil Ivey was also here but only lasted 20 minutes before going all in blind because he had to leave for an unknown reason and losing to a very happy player, who doubled up early.

Play was very very slow and with 30,000 chips and 90 minute levels there is really no reason you should bust early because this is not some 300.00 event,it's a 10k and the play is so very different in a tournament of this stature.

I did get to speak with Kelly Kim for a few. Kelly is one of the WSOP main event final table players and he is a local, who like me, started playing small events at the Bike to hone our skills.Kelly is a great guy and I gave him one of the Fallen Heroes Shirts and he just might wear it during tomorrows play.Kenna James told me he is definitely wearing the Fallen Heroes hat and shirt during tomorrows session and that is great news.

I will be going to watch some of the play tomorrow and then I will not be going back until Thursday, when the Final table is being filmed. I am going to spend some time with the twins on my days off and get some honey do's done around the house.

Sorry I do not have anything interesting to report,but today was like watching paint dry on a wall, very slow.

Take Care,,,,Be Safe...