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Bodog Poker pro Evelyn Ng is kicking some WSOP ass after Day1. (Bodog Beat Image)

Last night saw almost 1000 players eliminated from WSOP Day 1C. It was the biggest field we’d seen out of all the Day 1’s and Team Bodog poker pro Evelyn Ng cruised through finishing among the chip leaders with 110,225.

Ng has been the talk of the WSOP even before her big finish last night. It all started when she challenged PokerNews writer Gary Gates in a Guitar Hero prop bet.

Gates was soundly thrashed and the it was all pretty entertaining but it wasn't until last night that we saw the result of the prop bet. While Evelyn was busy gobbling up chips in Day 1C of the WSOP, Gary Gates showed up dressed in a toga holding a huge palm leaf and proceeded to serve as a loyal fan boy.

Perhaps the satisfaction of the moment helped propel Ng into the top 30 players ending Day 1C with over 100,000 in chips. Not bad considering it was the biggest field yet with 1,928 and it was played down to just over 1,000.

The combined total entrants for Days 1A, B and C is 4,383. That means that all we need to break last year's total field of 6,358 is for 1,975 entrants to show up here today for Day 1D. Since today is usually the biggest day of them all it looks very likely that this year's WSOP Main Event will be bigger than last year.

Rumors floating around the WSOP tournament floor are that we are looking at around 2,300 for today. And so the poker watermark is looking like yet another year of growth.