The 2014 WSOP's Main Event kicked off this weekend on Saturday. There were 771 players that sat down at the tables at the Rio for Day 1A of this year's $10,000,000 1st place guarantee event. No other than the legendary 2005 main event winner Joe Hachem kicked off the event by announcing the classic "Shuffle up and Deal".
Day 1A gathered some famous poker faces. No less than 5 previous gold bracelet winners were among the participants: Tom McEvoy, Johnny Chan, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Merson, and Ryan Riess.
Once Day 1A concluded, the chip leader was Sweden's Martin Jacobson who bagged 200,100 chips for round 2. The young Swede has earned a total of $1,204,983 in WSOP winnings where the major part comes from finishing on 6th place in 2013's Event #47: One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em where he won $807,427.
Day 1A Top 10 finishers:
1. Martin Jacobson - 200,100
2. Aaron Wilt - 157,650
3. Seamus Cahill - 150,775
4. Benjamin Gold - 144,875
5. Naoya Kihara - 124,225
6. Ken Einiger - 120,400
7. Yung Hwang - 118,875
8. Kenny Tran - 115,400
9. Mukul Pahuja - 114,800
10.Aleksander Simic - 110,675
