2015 World Series of Poker

The other new event to kick off on Sunday was Event #7: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball Championship. The tournament attracted 109 players, which created a prize pool of $1,024,600. That will be distributed to the top 12 players with the eventual winner taking home a $322,756 first-place prize.

The man best positioned to make a run at it is Craig Hartman, who finished the 51 Day 1 survivors as the chip leader with 147,300. Others who bagged and tagged were Rep Porter (141,800), Max Casal (138,700), Layne Flack (116,200), and Phil Galfond (112,000). Likewise, Robert Mizrachi bagged 79,400, putting him in contention for yet another bracelet.

Of course not everyone was so lucky. Among those to fall were former champ Eli Elezra; online superstars Ola "Odd_Oddsen" Amundsgard and Alexander "PostflopAction" Kostritsyn; and Daniel Negreanu, who was playing his first event of the 2015 WSOP.

Players will return at 2 p.m. local time on Monday to play down to the final table, or at least that's the plan.