The World Series of Poker Main Event began with 1,116 players making their way to the Rio poker room for day 1A of play.

In the chip lead currently is Eric Cloutier with 150k. Some notables who fared well are the actor Jason “George Costanza” Alexander, Lex Veldhuis, Eli Elezra, WSOP Player of the Year 2007 Tom Schneider.

Some of the players who won’t be coming back for Day 2: John “Razor” Phan, Freddy Deeb,  Allen Cunningham, Men “The Master” Nguyen,  and the 2007 World Champion Jerry Yang.

2007 WSOP champ Jerry Yang BUSTED

Jason Alexander aka George Costanza with 89k after day 1

2009 Main Event Schedule

July 3,2009 12:00 PM         Day 1A
July 4,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1B
July 5,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1C
July 6,2009 12:00 PM        Day 1D
July 7,2009 12:00 PM        Day 2A (Days 1A+1B)
July 8,2009 12:00 PM        Day 2B (Days 1C+1D)
July 9,2009 12:00 PM        Break
July 10,2009 12:00 PM        Day 3
July 11,2009 12:00 PM        Day 4
July 12,2009 12:00 PM        Day 5
July 13,2009 12:00 PM        Day 6
July 14,2009 12:00 PM        Day 7
July 15,2009 12:00 PM        Day 8
November 7-10,2009 TBD        FINAL TABLE