Update: 2011 WSOP Sees First Woman Final Tabler

Still no first female winner A lot of thrilling action could be seen in the first five days of the 42nd World Series of Poker, but it seems like Day 5 is a day of firsts. What happened was the appearance of a poker pro, singer and reality TV contestant Maria Ho at a final table at the Series, turning her into the first woman to make it there, but also there was the fantastic first WSOP gold for Eugene Katchalov. Ho played at the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em event, made it to the final table, ended up in the heads up with Allen Bari, where she was defeated and had to settle with the runner's up prize of $540 020. Bari, who took down the event, scored his first WSOP bracelet and a winner's prize of $874 116. As for Katchalov, he won event 5: the $1,500 Stud, after a clash with Alessio Isaia in the heads up. In case of event 6: the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em, it continued into its third day, with 15 players left in the competition. Then there was the less than exciting heads-up between Harrison Wilder and Thomas Jamieson, which ended in Wilder's favor in less than half an hour, bringing him the main prize of $205 065. At event 7, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship, it was the third day with only 27 contestants left of an original field of 249, many big names included, such as Stephen Chidwick, Robert Mizrachi, Nicolas Levi, Mike Matusow, Chris Moorman, McLean Karr, Amir Lehavot, Jarred Solomon and Jason DeWitt. In the heads up it was Amir Lehavot against Jarred Soloman, who have been playing for a long while. Speaking of the firsts, the first of the $1000 buy-in events - number 8, a NLHE competition saw its second day with even more registrations, 2062 of them, which led to a total entry field of 4 178, a number that includes some reputable players like Kathy Liebert, Masaaki Kagawa, Humberto Brenes, Phil Gordon, David Williams, Victor Ramdin, Shannon Shorr, Amnon Filippi, Nikolay Evdakov, Gavin Griffin, Gavin Smith, Dwight Pilgrim, Layne Flack, Sorel Mizzi, Allen Kessler and Eddy Sabat. Day 1b saw 312 players remaining, with Jon Turner comfortably ahead of nearest rival Jason Koon. Together with Day 1a survivors, a combined field of 624 players now returns for Day 2, with a number of big names remaining in the game, including Phil Collins, Annette Obrestad, Gavin Griffin, Layne Flack and Kathy Liebert. Then, in the event 9: the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, only 10 stayed in the game out of the original 275 players. Here Jason Mercier held a comfortable chip lead. Further information about this and other events is expected soon.