LAS VEGAS (AP) The latest from the World Series of Poker main event championship (all times local):
5:20 p.m.
Poker player Joe McKeehen is wasting no time laying waste to his competitors at the World Series of Poker main event.
Patrick Chan is the first player out after putting all of his chips on the line holding a king of spades and queen of clubs. Going head to head with McKeehen's ace of diamonds and four of hearts, the five community cards that followed did nothing to save 26-year-old Chan.
The professional poker player from New York leaves with what he and all the other nine remaining players won in July when they made it to the finals: $1 million.
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5:00 p.m.
The cards have been dealt, signaling the start to the World Series of Poker main event as nine remaining players vie for a $7.6 million top prize and the championship title.
It begins the first of three marathon days of competition to determine who will out-last and out-bluff everyone else after already out-playing nearly 6,410 entries this summer.
Joe McKeehen of Pennsylvania is in the lead with more than twice the number of poker chips in his possession than his nearest competitor.
