World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1-C Photos

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Inside the tournament area of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event on Day 1-C.

A FlipChip photo gallery with new images being added daily from the World Series of Poker Lifestyle Show playing now at the Rio Resort in Las Vegas.

Another big Main Event first day at the 2006 World Series of Poker. Day 1-C saw the poker room jammed to capacity with players and spectators. The corridors outside the huge WSOP poker room is a sea of human gridlock during the breaks. Long lines continue to flow out of the men’s rooms and into the crowded corridor. The temporary WSOP gift shop is the most convenient place to buy a quick snack; but, the single cashier is always overwhelmed by the sudden mass of rushing poker players on a short time clock. I love the WSOP and all of its inconveniences and I’ll miss it when its over.

FlipChip/LasVegasVegas.com photos shot Saturday 07/29 on location at the Rio All-Suite Resort in Las Vegas, Home of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event and Lifestyles Show.

Playboy Bunny watching the action from the rail.

Too soon this will all be a collection of memories with the Rio Resort will return to normal as just the loudest, funnest, all party all the time joints in all of Las Vegas. Traffic jams on Flamingo Road won’t last as long, overflow parking will be empty, the crowded corridors become lifeless conduits, and it is so quiet you can hear a chip drop two joints over. That heady fragrance of money will have been replaced with the antiseptic smell of corporate clean. I always come back to the Pavilion Center after the big poker show has left the building, just to stroll around and take a final measure of the long gone poker circus. It always proves to be what I need to fit everything together, the last page in the 2006 WSOP book.

Today’s batch of FlipChip photos from the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1-C (Sunday) follows.

Tom McEvoy, 1983 World Series of Poker Champion, playing in the 2006 WSOP Main Event Sunday.

Tilt Boy and roshambo champion, Phil Gorden, playing Sunday in the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

First platoon of players return to their seats after a scheduled break.

Joe Sebok, aka Spidey Man, and a couple of friends sign shirts for fans under the watchful eye of Jennifer Tilly.

Jennifer Tilly’s boyfriend Phil ‘Unabomber’ Laak playing Sunday in the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

Another view of the crowded Rio poker room on Sunday.

Hard time knowing who the fish are? Those guesswork days will be gone forever if a new WSOP rule is adopted that requires all rookies to wear a fish hat.
Sunday’s best hat at the WSOP Main Event

2006 WSOP poker face

Marco Traneillo playing in the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1-C Photos

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