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Poker pro Greg Raymer leaving the Amazon Room means one less WSOP Main Event champion in the field. (Bodog Beat Image)

The eliminations here during Day 1B of the 2008 WSOP Main Event are not limited to the donkeys unknown poker players who have come out to try their hand at winning millions only to fall woefully short. The ever-present cries of "all in and a call" from the dealers have also cost several poker pros, who were expected to fair much better, their tournament, including a couple who own bracelets in the Main Event, the crowning achievement of poker. We recently witnessed one of these Main Event champions exit and just heard that another busted out right before the dinner break.

Much earlier today we got some photos of 2004 WSOP Main Event champion Greg Raymer looking none to happy to be exiting the building, much much earlier than he would've liked.. Here is the write-up from the hand that spelled his doom from PokerNews.com:

A short-stacked Greg Raymer got his remaining chips in the middle after a flop of , and was called by Kai Are Hauge.

Raymer had for eights and fives, but Hauge was ahead with . The turn was the and the river the , and Raymer has been eliminated.

Then, just a few minutes ago 2006 WSOP Main Event champion Jamie Gold busted when his all-in preflop raise with K-Q was called by an unfortunate (for Gold) pair of Queens. The board ran out with no help for Gold, and he was sent packing well short of the $12 million that he won two years ago in what is still the largest first-place prize awarded at the WSOP.

There will be many more pros and non-pros who will chip up and bust out here during Day 1B of the 2008 WSOP Main Event and we'll keep you updated as it all goes down.