This Is Starting to Get Serious
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
This is Day 7 of the Main Event, though we actually started play 12 days ago. Twelve days of poker to reduce 6,464 to the 54 who are still alive. 54 players, 54 names that might be the next to join the Ring of Champions that line the Amazon Room walls. The ESPN camera teams are swarming around the truncated playing floor, swooping in every time a dealer shouts, “All in and call!”
Media access has been severely restricted, pretty much only ESPN and PokerNews are allowed on the floor and the “moat” for media that’s just inside the spectator rail means we can’t catch the action or take the sort of photos we’d like. I did get a picture of Billy Kopp, and if you’re not sure who that is you might want to start doing some research, because he’s the chip leader at the Main Event with almost 14.5 million.
Kopp has had a great World Series, final-tabling the $5,000 No-Limit Hold-Em event (he finished 8th) and nearly making a second final table when he finished 11th in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold-Em tournament. Kopp has nearly a four-million chip lead over his closest pursuers, and we’re just deep enough now that can’t help thinking that Kopp will be there at the end. But we’re not so deep that Kopp is even a lock to make the November Nine. Still too much poker to be played, the money is starting to get big, the pressure as well, and there are 53 other players in the field who think that before too long, they’ll be where Billy Kopp is right now. At the top.
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